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Daily Sketch: Inscrutable Patterns

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“Inscrutable Pattern”, colorized line art, 8.5″ x 11″ © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

I’m calling it that because the original sketch from January 15, 2014 was called “Inscrutable”, below.

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“Inscrutable”, brush and ink and felt-tip sketch marker, 5.5″ x 7.5″ © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

I’ve been thinking about this for a while, making a colorful pattern using line art. When I first did this sketch I thought it would be a good candidate for a repetitive pattern, and it’s been on my mind the past few days so I decided to finally see how it would work out. I began with a palette of about eight colors, which is more than I’d wanted, and then I kept adding more! Never too many colors.

Initially I liked all the cats’ eyes to be different colors when the color beneath showed through each cats’ eyes. Then I began shuffling the pattern so both eyes were not on the same color. Not sure I like that, it may be a little too random, so I think on another attempt I’m going to make all the eyes one color for a little bit more symmetry and see if it holds it together.

Above is a “full sheet” of pattern. Coloring the art was easier in my graphic design program so that was what I used to put this together, and I’m so accustomed to designing printed materials I always start out with a letter-size page, so that’s the base size of that layout. Below is a half-page, I just cropped off the top half.

"Inscrutable Pattern, half sheet", colorized line art, 8.5" x 5.5" © Bernadette E. Kazmarski
“Inscrutable Pattern, half sheet”, colorized line art, 8.5″ x 5.5″ © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Yes, fabric, yes, wrapping paper, yes, art paper. What have I started?! It’s going to be really fun.

Mr. Sunshine is going to be insufferable.

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What other sketches did I share on this date?

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Three After Dinner Baths
ink sketch of three cats bathing
“Three After Dinner Baths”, gel pen, 7″ x 5″ © B.E. Kazmarski

Giuseppe, Mr. Sunshine and Mewsette line up and focus on getting clean after dinner. Quick sketchy lines help to capture the non-stop action. Drawn in handy black gel pen.


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"Sitting in the Dark", 2560 x 1440 for wide and HD monitors cats desktop calendar
“Sitting in the Dark”, 2560 x 1440 for wide and HD monitors

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