Category: tessellations
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Owls, Spiral Tessellation
Spiral life-like tessellations are not that common due to the inability to easily stack slices and make an image that is recognizable. This is a single spiral of an owl motif I had originally created as a double spiral. I chose the single spiral for this image to simplify it and allow the viewer to…
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Infinite Progression, Horned Lizards, Black & White,
The horned lizard motif has been an ongoing interest of mine for at least 10 years. I had a hexagon on my header when I had the Tessellation Elegance website and you can see other interpretations on this website. I plan to make this little drawing into a print. The drawing is small, 4-3/4 inches…
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Sea Turtles and Dolphin Fish Tessellation
This is a watercolor and color pencil tessellation of sea turtles and fish. The tessellation came from a linocut print that I made several years ago called “Bermuda”. It was inspired by my time in Key West. When I was diving I used to see green sea turtles and have caught dolphin while fishing. The…
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Frogs, Cantor Series with Middle Third
This is a tessellation of frogs in a pseudo- Cantor Series because their are five frogs in the third tier. So technically not a true Cantor set. The continuity of the frogs is 1, 2, 5, 14….. If it were a true Cantor it would have the middle third missing so there would be a…
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Butterflies, Infinite Progression
This is a black and white infinite progression of butterflies in pen and ink with color pencil. It is in the shape of a hexagon with axis at 60 degrees. This one is 4-1/2 inches x 4-1/2 inches. I wanted to transform my butterfly tessellation into an infinite series although its quite small I like…
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Icarus (C4) Tessellation
This is a linocut of a tessellation of Icarus from symmerty group C 4 from the original pen and ink drawing Rise and Fall (see the drawing on my website). The linocut is designed like a chessboard and a transformation from squares to the Icarus tile. I have always been fascinated with the myth of…
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Little Dragons Tessellation (C3)
This is a small watercolor and color pencil of a dragon tessellation that rotates 120 degrees with three copies of itself to tile the plane. The original was a lithograph with watercolor only (no color pencil) that I had completed several years ago in a “star” pattern on a larger scale. I will post the…
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Bunnies Tessellation (C6)
This is a watercolor and color pencil of a tessellation that has six copies of itself in a hexagon. This is my only bunny tessellation.
Oil Paintings, Plein Air, Prints, Hand Drawn Tessellations 