During the tessellation project I learned how to trace things accurately and how to put things together to make it look nice. I also learned how to make color combinations look good. If I knew how to put together lots of colors and still make it look presentable 3 months ago, my room would look way different. I had a lot of colors in my room but it didn't really come together, so I am redesigning my room for when I come back from October break.
When I started my work I was frustrated. I was frustrated because I couldn't think up any good designs. Then when I finally found one, it was all much easier. I thought that thinking up the creations was the hard part, but the part where you had to be most creative. The coloring, I thought was fun, even though I would've chosen some other colors. A problem I had was trying to think of something that looked nice but was still creative and not cheesy. I have that problem a lot when I'm writing a story, when I can say something and it will still sound okay, but I try to think of something that would stick to your mind. For this project I had to use HURBE. Harmony, in the the coloring, making sure that there weren't to many colors and that it looked balanced. Unity, to make sure that once everything was put together it looked like one big art piece. Rhytm in the sense that I didn't have too little of one thing or too much of another thing and that I kept repeating the tessellations. Balance kind of came with the design because of the repeating of patterns, and then Emphasis which was where I tried to catch people's eye with when I colored in red and yellow when the background was green. All-in-all I'm happy with my finished product, if I had to do it again I would've have done a different color scheme because I don't really like the green, it kind of reminds me of mildew.
MC Escher Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaXX5wmVjZ8
