I’ve made it to the test print! …but let’s first pick up where we left 😌️

I’ve made it to the test print! …but let’s first pick up where we left 😌️
So I’ve reworked the base hexagonal tile for my repeat pattern.
It’s been a moment since I last tried my hand at repeating patterns, or stamp carving. Today I’m diving back with an obviously much too ambitious project: carving a stamp for an hexagon-based pattern – also, small enough to repeat on the “end papers” of my A6-size sketchbook 😅️.
I was entranced by the shapes of the slowly drying vine and sepals on this tomato :) Untypically, I followed my impulse to sketch it 😊️ I hesitated between a simple linework and adding colour, so I thought I’d do the latter but document the former in case the colouring went awry 😁️. Also, the […]