Sunday sketch #442
A bit of fun with sawtooth stars this week, surrounding them in layers of colour that end up looking like little explosions.
Sunday sketch #441
I’m pretty sure this week’s sketch is the first time I’ve used overlapping curves. In this design, the curves are what I’d consider ‘standard’ – one’s a circle and the other one’s a quarter-circle (or drunkard’s path). So nothing fancy. The only thing that’s new (for me) is that one crosses over the other.
Sunday sketch #440
I realised quite soon after designing this week’s sketch that I’d just recreated a traditional block: the Kansas star block. When I’m designing with basic shapes like squares and half-square triangles, it’s not hard to stumble across something that’s been done before. Often I’ll just shelve those ideas, but occasionally I’ll post them, particularly if they’re a little different (in appearance or construction) from what I’ve seen elsewhere. In this case, I haven’t managed to find a version of this block where the outer squares are all one colour, like I’ve shown here.
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