Oh my, Skye!

Once I got the hang of it, I find Skye a MOST DELIGHTFUL pattern to play with.

My sketchbook

I put it on curves, did single motifs, and tried several ways of shading. I even made a row of Skye that looked metallic. Very cool!

(the metallic looking one is right here on the <<< rightmost of this picture)








So after all that practice, I decided to make a big piece, in my large sketchbook that has WONDERFUL 98 wt paper

This is before shading. 

I put Skye in here many times, some in rows, and some individual motifs. There are several with openings (a la' Ellish) that I JUST LOVE!!! It is so cool looking with the open spaces. Other patterns are hamail, florz, pineapple, flux, tipple, perls, printemps, and my hamail tangleation, along with a few spirals here and there.

Pineapple is the pattern on the right, it uses a leaflet outline with just shading. It is a Neal Burley pattern, and I've drastically adapted it so it is nothing but lines and shading.

I think this needs something more, something to tie it all together.

One other little tidbit, I want to do it again, but it involves a LOT of tiny little detail...

I was aiming to get those fibonacci spirals that are found in the center of sunflowers. I think I know what to do, now that I spent a few hours on this. Maybe I'll do it again some day.