I wanted to work on the motifs that I could have surrounding the bugs in the patterns, for the dragonflies I was thinking lilypads and leaves and berries bundles for the beetles and ladybirds.
Using a mixture of patterns here for the options when it comes to creating the patterns, I thought about the size of the motifs too as I would want them to be different and changing throughout the patterns.
I wanted to explore texture and mark making digitally too as I thought this could work effectively on the background of my piece, I tried out a variety of brushes and strokes to get a really vast range to try out in repeat here, I also keep the colour quite middle range as I thought it could be changed easily this way with Photoshop.
Tahlia Paige 