One Zentangle A Day
One Zentangle A Day

Author: Beckah Krahula

Publisher:

Published: 2012-11

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1592538118

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One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises. Zentangles are a new trend in the drawing and paper arts world. The concept was started by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation through drawing, by using repetitive lines, marks, circles, and shapes. Each mark is called a "tangle," and you combine various tangles into patterns to create "tiles" or small square drawings. This step-by-step book is divided into 6 chapters, each with 7 daily exercises. Each exercise includes new tangles to draw in sketchbooks, teaches daily tile design, and offers tips on related art principles, and contains an inspirational "ZIA" (Zentangle Inspired Art) project on a tile that incorporates patterns, art principals, and new techniques.

Geometric Patterns and Designs for Artists and Craftspeople
Geometric Patterns and Designs for Artists and Craftspeople

Author: Wil Stegenga

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0486423085

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More than 260 high-impact, permission-free designs that exploit to their fullest the dramatic potential of squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, and other elements. Invaluable for wallpaper and textile design, packaging and computer art, these eye-catching forms provide artists and craftspeople with angular forms and pleasant symmetries. More than 260 black-and-white designs.

Mastering Illustrator
Mastering Illustrator

Author: Smashing Magazine

Publisher: Smashing Magazine

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 3943075486

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One of the most beloved vector graphic softwares among Web Designers is Adobe Illustrator. But getting to know all of its tools and features can be time consuming. With this eBook we try to ease the learning process for you. You will get to learn how to create graphics, transform a sketch into a vector, combine analog and digital techniques, prepare artwork for screen printing and also learn useful typography tips, all focusing on Adobe Illustrator. TABLE OF CONTENTS - Productive Web Design With. Adobe Illustrator? - Creating Graphs With Adobe Illustrator - Illustrators Live Trace: Sketch to Vector - Mixing Up Illustration: Combining Analog And Digital Techniques - Examples And Tips For Using Illustrators Warp Tools - Preparing Artwork for Screen Printing in Adobe Illustrator - Create a Cute Little Tiger in Illustrator - Useful Typography Tips For Adobe Illustrator

Color and Create
Color and Create

Author: Color and Create

Publisher:

Published: 2016-02-27

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781944119249

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Ready to relax and get creative? Explore the 50 all-original geometric designs in various styles to help you relax and find your creative side. Who said you had to color objects like landscapes, flowers and animal to enjoy coloring? Striking and beautiful results can be achieved with the creative and imaginative use of color on these geometric patterns. You will be truly surprised at how you will be able to bring them to life. Suitable for adults and older children, these designs can be brought to life with colored pencils, crayons, or markers. Known for its relaxation properties, coloring has been known to help reduce stress, anxiety, and also help stimulate the brain areas related to motor skills and creativity. Unlike many coloring books, the designs in this book are single sided. That means you can color all the images without worrying about the color bleeding and destroying the image on the other side. The geometric designs make the book perfect for left and right handed people. Left handed people simply have to rotate the book 90 or 180 degrees and they are good to go. Be sure to check out our other coloring books, including Vol 1 of Geometric shapes and patterns, Mandalas, Vintage War Posters, Patchwork quilt patterns, and more.

Islamic Geometric Design
Islamic Geometric Design

Author: Eric Broug

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780500516959

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Combines wide-ranging research with the author's artistic skills to reveal the techniques used to create the patterns adorning buildings in the Islamic world

Print & Pattern: Geometric
Print & Pattern: Geometric

Author: Bowie Style

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2015-01-19

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 178067709X

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The latest book based on the popular Print & Pattern website, Print & Pattern: Geometric celebrates beautiful surface designs, patterns, and motifs made from geometric shapes such as circles, triangles, hexagons, etc. The patterns included reflect current trends for tribal, Aztec, and Native American designs, along with Scandinavian influences and more mathematical and scientific looks. Product areas covered include stationery, cards and giftwrap, fabrics, wallpaper, rugs, ceramics, homewares, gadget skins, and more. Documenting the work of the best designers in the field, the book is an invaluable source of reference and inspiration for surface designers, designer-makers and craftspeople, graphic designers, illustrators, and textile designers.

Gateway to the Heavens
Gateway to the Heavens

Author: Karen L. French

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Published: 2014-05-13

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1780287798

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Simple geometric shapes and symbols combine to make the universal, powerful, sacred model Karen French calls Gateway to the Heavens. In this book, French explains the meaning and purpose of these shapes, how they mold our reality and perception of it and how they have a direct bearing on what you are and why you are here. These shapes and symbols contain messages that have been consistently represented in religion, philosophy, mythology, mysticism, the arts and sciences. Their messages are built into our genetic make-up and we recogniZe them instinctively. The book is divided up into 3 parts. Part 1 covers the properties of the basic geometric shapes and numbers. Part 2 describes how these, in turn, form layers of construction, creating principals that are fundamental to the purpose of the universe; the spiral sustains reality, the cross highlighting the central point of existence and the heart is where we weigh up our choices. Part 3 describes how we can use these principals to create positive change in our lives by helping us to expand our awareness of reality.

Islamic Geometric Patterns
Islamic Geometric Patterns

Author: Eric Broug

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0500294682

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Featuring new patterns with detailed explanatory texts, this revised edition is an inspirational guide for craftspeople and artists alike. The marvels of Islamic patterns—the most recognizable visual expression of Islamic art and architecture—are not just a beautiful accident. The ancient practitioners of this craft used traditional methods of measurement to create dazzling geometric compositions, often based on the repetition of a single pattern. The results are magnificent in their beauty and awe-inspiring in their execution. Now, with the aid of this book, everyone can learn how to master this ancient art and create their own intricate patterns or re-create classic examples. All that is needed is a pencil, a ruler, a compass, and a steady hand. Technical tips demonstrate the geometric basics such as how to create designs from one of the foundational “family” shapes: a square, hexagon, or pentagon. This is followed by step-by-step instructions for reproducing some of the best examples of geometric patterns. Islamic Geometric Patterns contains twenty-three geometric patterns and brief histories of some of the most famous and beautiful Islamic art and architecture from around the world. This revised edition features seven new patterns from locations including: Ak Medrese in Nigde, Turkey; Chellah necropolis in Rabat, Morocco; Shah Jahan Mosque in Thatta, Pakistan; the Tomb of I’timad-ud-Daulah in Agra, India; the Alcazar in Seville, Spain; Zaouia Moulay Idriss II in Fes, Morocco; and Darwish Pasha Mosque in Damascus, Syria.

Patterns and Parkas
Patterns and Parkas

Author: Sandi Pendergrast

Publisher: Calgary : Detselig Enterprises

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781550593259

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Grade two students learn about the properties of shapes including squares, rectangles, triangles, and parallelograms. They learn a variety of ways to make those shapes and how Yup'ik elders use these shapes to create patterns. As the students make shapes, they learn about geometrical relationships, symmetry, congruence, proofs and measuring. Students connect learning in the community to learning in school. About the Series Math in a Cultural Context This series is a supplemental math curriculum based on the traditional wisdom and practices of the Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska. The result of more than a decade of collaboration between math educators and Yup'ik elders, these modules connect cultural knowledge to school mathematics. Students are challenged to communicate and think mathematically as they solve inquiry-oriented problems, which require creative, practical and analytical thinking. Classroom-based research strongly suggests that students engaged in this curriculum can develop deeper mathematical understandings than students who engage only with a procedure-oriented, paper-and-pencil curriculum.