Francine Champagne

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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