Wheaton High School
Wheaton, Minnesota
Charles Pinkney, Instructor
 

 
Making Pattern Designs
        Patterns add a decorative quality to art. Pattern adds an element of beauty to an otherwise plain or drab - purely functional - form. Patterns are a basic part of art creation. Patterns are key to making handicrafts. They play a large role in ethnic or native art. We can apply pattern to decorate various types of craft projects.  Our clay design projects will include pattern.

 

Repeating an object or form is the basis of decorative  pattern

A slight variation is to alternate two or moore forms in a systematic way
 


 

Repeating either upside down, mirrored, or flipped is another system
 

 Grouping objects or clustering objects

 

Placing patterns and forms inside of other forms
 


 Arranging repeated objects to form a line
The line can make a border or have another use
 

Any family of forms can be varied to produce
slightly different patterns
 
 

 


2007