Adding Glide Reflections to Your Tessellation Drawing Repertoire

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Francine Champagne

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1 Introducing Glide Reflections for your Tessellations.mp4

02:16

2 A Symmetry Method I Like to Call THIS WAY THAT WAY.mp4

12:53

3 A Dancing Dog Tessellation.mp4

06:18

4 M.C. Eschers Swans Tessellation.mp4

06:11

5 Koloman Mosers Die Tausend Raben Tessellation.mp4

03:51

6 Super Simple Quickies using the THIS WAY THAT WAY Method.mp4

17:05

7 Hope You Enjoyed Glide Reflections.mp4

02:04

Class 6 THIS WAY THAT WAY links to all artists.pdf.pdf

Project files for class 6 - THIS WAY THAT WAY.pdf.pdf

Description

In the previous five classes we learned the first three symmetry methods used in creating nested shape tessellations and patterns. Mirror, rotation and translation. This class introduces and explains in depth, the fourth symmetry operation, the glide reflection. It was one of M.C. Escher's favourites, having accomplished 25 drawings using this symmetry method. Koloman Moser, another artist from before Escher's time also used this tessellation method. We will study the symmetry group that I like to call "THIS WAY — THAT WAY" with examples from these two Masters, as well as contemporary tessellation artists from around the globe. We will skim the various possibilities when coloring artwork for easy as well as pleasant effects. And as a side benefit, we will use the new KaleidoPaint, version 3.0, and cover a few of the new menus, tool locations and attributes.

Cheers!

What You'll Learn?

Graphic Design
Surface Pattern Design
Creative
INTUITION
Ipad Art
Geometric Design
Digital Artwork

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Francine Champagne

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Intertwining lovable animals, hilarious humans or geometric shapes, is my passion. Just like MC Escher, and his regular division of the plane drawings, tessellation topics are endless. They can be simple repeating patterns or more complex characters, quirky humans, whatever strikes your fancy. Originally from eastern Ontario, now living on Vancouver Island, I’ve been creating tessellations for quite a few decades. I've done my 10,000 hours of practice!

Time has come to share my intuitive and creative process, as well as the now easy, technical side. The how of tessellations. I've refined my methods, made it super simple with a few tricks, magic sentences I call them, to achieve a true nested shape tessellation in just a few strokes of a stylus on the iPad. No nerdy math stuff, no graph paper, no scissors, just a bit of creative imagination.

There are 17 methods to divide a surface into identical tiles, using different operations: repetition, rotation, reflection and glide reflection. And a billion possibilities for your patterns.

I hope you'll join me on this wonderful journey into the world of tessellations, one symmetry method at a time.

Cheers! (an anagram of Escher)

Francine

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