Pattern Portafolio

I use pen and ink to create the final transparencies for silk screening. The nature of drawings manualità translates very nicely into files for printing digitally as well. One of the results I respond to is how final results mimic artisan production but with an efficiency of digitally printing. The reverse is very rarely true. Finding that developing designs by hand does not give you problems that developing a design digitally, and then trying to print it manually would. When Patterns are formulated manually, then digitized the only part of the process utilizing a computer is colorization of designs. I began to digitize my prints in 2018. Proceeding on this journey I am increasingly convicted that digitization should be a means to an end, without the hand of an artisan the end results are vapid. Visceral over virtual. Developing pattern families there is an extensive research process used to draw out themes and combinations that work together in a collection. Resulting print families are composed of different elements such as geometrics, organic repeat patterns, running borders, stripes and meandering borders. Others can be interlocking patterns using the same base tile form over several thematic variations.