Tessellation Design (Part 17)

Practice tessellation in this art lesson: tessellation design (part 17).

🎨 Studio Brief #84

A tessellation is a pattern of shapes that fit together with no gaps or overlaps, like a puzzle that covers a surface.

🎯 Your mission

Pick one font. Pick one color. Pick one shape.

⚡ The twist

One color only.

What you'll learn

A tessellation is a pattern of shapes that fit together with no gaps or overlaps, like a puzzle that covers a surface. M.C. Escher was the master of artistic tessellations.

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Techniques you'll practise

tessellationtranslationpattern design

You will need

ScissorsGlueColored pencilsDrawing paper

Step 1 of 3

Cut a shape from one side of a square piece of cardboard. Tape it to the opposite side.

Step 2 of 3

Trace this new shape repeatedly across your paper, fitting the pieces together like a puzzle.

Step 3 of 3

Add details to each shape to transform it into an animal, face, or object.

Did you know?

🤯 Mind = Blown

🤯 The 'recycle' triangle was designed by a 23-year-old in 1970.

🌟 Artist Spotlight

🎨 Saul Bass (the movie poster designer) made *Vertigo* with a spiral and a triangle.

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