Spr 2019 Week 5: Whitney's Allover Pattern, Checkerboard and Counterchange

Spr 2019 Week 5: Whitney's Allover Pattern, Checkerboard and Counter Change

The YouTube Video you want to watch first is Design Series - Part 3 / Using Pattern by Russell Black. This is where Mr. Black talks about the checkerboard design pattern and demonstrates how to apply that pattern to a sketch:
Here are some other video you might want to watch

Edgar Whitney's notion: Design the shapes first, then fit nature or objects into them. Warning!!! When Russell black first came upon this notion in his first edition copy of Watercolor: The Hows and Whys by Edgar A. Whitney published in 1958, it blew his mind. 


You might also watch: Painting Without line: where Russell Black talks about positive painting (vignette), negative painting and Counter Change or Interlock: 

https://youtu.be/EqM4oQeMOj8

I found a few pages from the book, Conversations in Paint by Charles Dunn which address this weeks lesson (click on image to enlarge).

Patterns of Clarity and Interest




Seeing in Symbols



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