January 2013
by Marie Scott
©
Welcome to a new year
of Profusion Art!
I will gradually improve this website during
the coming year, so prepare for small changes.
This January lesson will be in the
same form as past lessons, but starting next month, instead of giving monthly
lessons with four new designs to use, I will break up the lessons into more
manageable pieces by putting on one design per week. Later in the year, I will
begin offering downloadable 12-page coloring books—at a small fee—for those
artists who just love to color or paint, but don’t want to have to create the
designs. And as always, there will be extra freebies including one coloring book page per month.
SNOWFLAKES
I will start January off with a bang by
teaching you how to make beautiful snowflakes. Six-sided-radial-repetition—or making
snowflakes—is one of the most beautiful art forms of all time, and Mother Nature
knows it. I give you an easy way to do it.
Colored Snowflakes
Snowflakes
Exotic Snowflakes
Now
that you know how it’s done, here is the template so you can make your own
snowflakes. Again, you don’t have to be perfect—Mother Nature’s work is not
perfect either—but she is very neat, and so must you try to be neat.
The following are four filler designs
that you may use to fill in snowflakes, making them what I call “exotic
snowflakes.”
Below are easy instructions on how to create the fillers.
And here are examples of how I have used each design in a
snowflake.
Assignment: Now,
make your own snowflakes, and use any design you can think up to decorate and
make them exotic. You don’t need to limit yourself to black and white—paint or
color your snowflakes too.
I LOVE DESIGNING SNOWFLAKES AND RADIAL DESIGNS. My guess is
that you will too!
