Here’s a little pattern that looks like candy-corn – a waxy little nibble of sugar seen in the stores around this time of the year here in the USA. To make this pattern you simply draw a series of rounded triangle shapes. They can be clustered randomly, stacked neatly in a row, lined up nicely in a line or even mirrored with one another.
Next add three little petal shapes in one corner of each triangle. Here again you have choices. You can draw your petals in a repeat pattern fashion and keep them facing all in the same direction; stagger them in every-other triangle, or be totally random with it. You will quickly learn that which placement options you choose may be completely different from one project to the next.
Drawing multiple candy corn shapes and arranging them on your project is what makes this a repeat pattern design.
Here are several example projects to show you some differing looks you can achieve with this simple Blork pattern.
Blork Sampler
“Changed”
The Two Steps for Blork
Now before you go out and buy yourself a bag of candy corn to munch on – grab the pattern design worksheet and save it to your computer. You might want to refer back to it for the next doodley thing you do while chomping on those little candies. 😉
This free downloadable worksheet shows the two drawing steps needed to accomplish the Blork pattern. Do you believe that? A project sheet for just two steps? Well I figure if you are a pattern collector you might want it in your stash with the others. If you’re a teacher you might use it to show students the ease of this small pattern that even the youngest artful soul may be able to sketch.
Have fun with it, and let me know if you add this yummy pattern to a project of yours in the near future. I’d love to see what you do with it!
Oh yeah….. One more thing before I go….. Heads up. I’ve got two new vids posting out this week. One showing a ghostly Halloween party decoration the kids will like. The other? Well it’s another pattern, of course.
I hope you will come on back for the fun!
Weave up something special today!
~ Cindy
“In Waiting”
Cindy,
I love the two ladies, did you get your inspiration from Sandy Barthalomew???
Lovely and of course, love your new line design. Where did the name come from?
Inspired by Sandy? You betcha! Over the years I’ve done my fair share of doodled ladies and this is a clip from one of my journal pages I did a few months back. Before responding to you, I pulled out one of Sandy’s books I have in my library and I’d say there’s a good chance I was flipping through her Yoga for Your Brain – a Zentangle Workout book when I was inspired to do this journal page. My ladies have several markings that resemble Sandy’s lines in her tutorial. These two gals are definitely similar to the gals she has in there. Sandy is very talented indeed! That’s a good resource for folks wanting to learn an easy method for combining some doodled faces and repeat pattern art!
Many times my pattern names are a combination of words that I think of when drawing the pattern and these words usually have to do with the look of the pattern, the feel of it when I draw it, or from something that inspired me to create the pattern to begin with. In this case Blork is a “zen” word I made up. It’s a play off of the words “Bottle” and “Cork” because that’s the object that actually inspired me when I created this pattern. The wine bottle cork had a little loopdy-loop scallop burned into the edge of it. And that’s where the 3-petals came into being on this pattern.
In this blog posting I compared the pattern to our Halloween Candy Corn only because of it’s rounded triangle shape and the timing of the season. Not because the candy was my inspiration. LOL Sorry if that left anyone confused.
Tomorrow my blog post will include a little video with a ghostly friend sporting the Blork pattern on his “costume”. When making the video I realized I hadn’t shared this pattern with my blog readers yet. I thought I better post it out to folks before the ghostly video showed up tomorrow so they’d know which pattern I was referring to…. I mean if they were interested. 😀 Just seemed like a fun thing to do and another excuse to share an easier than easy pattern with everyone.
Thanks for asking!