Pattern is an element that I love to use in my paintings along with color, line, and shape which actually make up patterns. Although I love traditional patterns like checks, stripes, and dots, almost anything can be a pattern. Think leaves on a tree, tiles on a roof or waves on the sea. Pattern can be loose or tight, large or small, calm or active. Pattern can unify and separate shapes as in my painting above called Fiesta Table. The different patterns define different objects or shapes. But at the same time, the patterns can appear unified when they are contrasted with plain shapes. Then all the patterned shapes are more alike, in contrast to the plain shapes which are different. Can you find the contrasting Plain shapes in this painting?
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