Embroidered Collage

Color again - but this time colored pencil instead of markers.  I love how this medium lays down on the paper of the moleskine sketchbook.  It gives me a lot more room for shading if I want to make the pieces appear more three dimensional than the overlapping does on its own.  The design element of having one circle be squiggly lines instead of smooth also seemed to work well.

I couldn't continue with the color because we were traveling, so I did another divided field, this time varying the size of the circular ripples for each function.  This page took me longer because of the small circles, but I really liked the effect.

A friend who saw the sketchbook at this point liked the page with ovals and circles and suggested I add triangles, too.  So I gave that a try.  I'm not particularly happy with this incarnation.  I think the shapes get lost in the other similarities.  It needs a focal point or difference of some sort.  But that's not the fault of the combination of shapes.

At some point it occurred to me that the ripples looked something like the contours on a map, so I did a page emphasizing the similarity.  I used the smallest pen point I had and deliberately held the pen differently for this one so as to get more irregular lines. 

I was a bit bored and didn't know what to do next, so I gave myself freedom to deviate further from my doodle algorithm.  I drew one curvy line and continued until I had a horn, after a fashion. I confined the usual pattern to one small section, but referenced it with the circles elsewhere.  Not bad, but I think I can do more with the concept.

See the previous three spreads.