Ogee Grid in Red
An Ogee Grid is one made with Ogee lines, which are S-strokes forming a wavy pattern that very fun but a bit challenging to work with as a grid (visit Wikipedia here to learn more about Ogee).
Two days ago the Art Raffle app pulled out an Ogee pattern and I was very excited to try something with it. Looking around in historic sources (aside from Wikipedia, I particularly enjoy Barbel Dressler's historic classes and the Smithsonian's art history courses), I ran into a very beautiful selection of red Ottoman textiles here, here and here (I found all three at Wikimedia Commons, my favorite source for historic Creative commons pictures). This was the first picture I made inspired by those textiles.
I noticed the predominance of red, with touches of gold and a little periwinkle blue, which I kept.
Excited about the success of the first piece, I used the Art Raffle again, this time also pulling some random tangles. The Raffle gave me: Moon Pie (Zentangle), Fluxecho (Lynn Mead) and 1 2 3 O’leary (Antonine Koval). The three enhancers I selected were: Add Gold, Embellish and Pearls.
Here’s the before and after working over a Phi Tan tile.
I REALLY like how this turned out! Here's a close-up for you to inspect.
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This arch is adapted from a Renaissance arch from the book “Suggestions of Design” by John Leighton and James Colling (1880) found on archive dot org. I also added some Found Flowers on a frame around the arch. Shaded and colored with Inktense and Pitt Artist Brush pens. If you goto my blog you'll see I wasn’t able to stay faithful to the original - I love the way my hand just takes over and adds whatever details it feels like.