TESSELLATIONS AND BEYOND

DESIGN PROBLEM: Create an acrylic painting involving tessellations and patterns inspired by M.C. ESHER. 
18x24 or larger, split-complimentary color scheme.
Technical skills:
  • Acrylic painting techniques
  • Blending and shading with acrylics
  • Layering
Practice & Experimentation:
  • tessellations in color schemes
  • playing with positive/negative space
  • experiments with tessellations
  • experiments with painting techniques to create style
Compositional skills:
  • Use of space involving tessellation
  • Emphasis of space ( positive vs negative)
  • Split-complimetary color schemes and color theory
Art History:
  • MC Escher and connections to math
  • Perception
Voice: The choices you make as an artist
  • Content of tessellation
  • unique problem solving skills regarding use of paint and composition design