Autumn Sun through Browning Leaves - 07 Sep 2025

Autumn sun sounds familiar

Yes, recycling titles, it seems - there was this one from a few years back. Same time of year though.

Anyway, I wanted to make another Islamic pattern, but this time at a large scale. I’ve done this pattern before, but not quite this variant of it. Here is the sketch, with construction lines:

Pencil sketch of Islamic design

This is quite a large scale at nearly A3!

Gum arabic

I had not used this for a while, so I decided to use watercolour and GA (as I call it) to make a very shiny outcome:

Painted Islamic design in green and gold

I also used some brown around the edges of the ‘leaves’ to make them look more autumnal. It worked ok, but could be more obvious. The total effect is nice - this scale is interesting for showing the core of a pattern (although, strictly it is not the smallest repeating unit).