Blossom tile - 01 Apr 2025

Simple pattern, happy life

What? Ok anyway, the pattern that I love to make and remake - see this one - I thought would be perfect for one of a set of 10x10 cm freshly gesso-ed ‘tiles’ (canvas covered carboard). As a single unit cell, it was fairly easy to trace onto the tile:

Blossom tile

Obviously, I’ve made it with a border, to separate out the shapes.

Blossom, though?

Oh, the colours are inspired by some trees in blossom that I saw. I used medium as well which gave some interesting structure to the structural elements. Varnish on top makes it nicer looking, but really it’s just a nice simple one.

The pencil marks were a bit sloppy in places, so I tried to cover this up with gesso on top of the varnish - interesting but not quite right, although it adds to the effect of a ‘tile’.