MADE | BY | JONES

Various grey prototypes with various studio treasures - The lid from a tea set, half made and left still attached to the chuck it was formed over, from the old factory I lived in. I know it's brass not copper, but it always reminds me of a mosque dome. And an Indian sweet box, that a friend told his sister that yes, she had indeed just bought it, but it was definitely Jones's...(I have well trained friends!) #wip #prototype #studio #treasures #islamicgeometry #islamicgeometricdesign #symbols #patterns https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Em2cGn4IL/?igshid=umqc38o37l2b

I got bored doing binary colour schemes last night, so this happened. Uni + Kurekolor markers on cardboard. ______________________________________ #wip #islamicgeometricdesign #geometric #geometricart #geometrychaos #black #blackandwhite #lightblack #grey #uni #zip #kurekolor #versions #cardboard #brownpaper #prototype https://www.instagram.com/p/B08JTrWHzLg/?igshid=1ep5mcg8up423

next few patterns. There's a few more complex designs incoming that require a third tone to fully comprehend, and some other designs that look good having a distinction between line and fill, something I never bothered to do in spraypaint because it felt too fiddly and lost some of the impact. In some ways it breaks the overall shape up, in others it makes the 'ghost' patterns appear better. I'm looking for that particular grey I'm not sure I've ever found, so I know to stop looking in a bit and accept whatever's closest. So many arguments with the paint guys asking them not to put yellow into the mix. 'Dirty Vandercook Grey' is the tone I want, and I don't have a Vandercook anymore to do a Pantone match to it... if anyone can help, it would be appreciated hugely! Sometimes black and white isnt enough, you need light black. Trying out a few tones of light black in the next few patterns, using Zig Kurecolor pigment markers. Going to go back over and neaten the outlines, I just want a few done quickly to compare and see which looks best. ____________________________________________ #wip #islamicgeometricdesign #geometric #geometricart #geometrychaos #black #blackandwhite #lightblack #grey #zip #kurekolor #versions https://www.instagram.com/p/B06PtTVH_kb/?igshid=i437x4xa54iw

Found in @samira.mian photos from the Rosales school - someone playing with one of my Kawasaki's Crystallisation. I folded a few as gifts or swaps for art. As you'd hope at a pattern school, everyone was far more interested in its reverse technical side rather than the floral front. Watch how the small squares translate and rotate relative to each other as the model compresses. #pattern #geometric #origami https://www.instagram.com/p/B0y2jx3nsfr/?igshid=1qi3a42vt3iwp

More meticulous monochrome, and another quick trip down to the caff to get some photography done and top up on dark roast. Instruction follows original badman @samira.mian ___________________________________ #monochrome #blackandwhite #black #blackeverything #islamicgeometricdesign #islamicgeometry #geometric #mathart #patterns #geometrychaos https://www.instagram.com/p/B0vVAKUHRMY/?igshid=1or1pq7ifzhtn

Spent an age on the outlines getting them even. This is what precision Uni pens and pencils are for. Focused, tried to not put a line wrong. Be as delicate as I could. Finished, I sat back with the glow of a job well done. Then I saw the black Sharpie. Trust me, the lines you can't see were the best ones. #black #blackeverything #Sharpie #uni #geometrychaos #islamicgeometricdesign https://www.instagram.com/p/B0q_DE1H9yR/?igshid=1a758xxy4it2g

About to start inking this one, an opportunity to hide many errors and create a whole load of others! Glad to have some record of it before this likely event occurs - thanks to @bevinrichardson for the photography. #handmade #islamicgeometricdesign #compassandruler #pattern #geometrychaos https://www.instagram.com/p/B0qo5tIH_pz/?igshid=1m1isiuab88kw

It's not stealing, it's collecting. Still separating my mawkish scrawls from the tutorials and diagrams of @daud.sutton @samira.mian @ambigraph @rajen.astho and @alandadams2018 I've got work for months laid out in front of me. I'm not the black sheep of this particular tribe, I'm the magpie. #monochrome #art #geometric #geometrychaos #islamicgeometricdesign #islamicgeometry #patterns https://www.instagram.com/p/B0jSAcMHjP_/?igshid=1mw4gbhle4clp

Didn't think I'd be able to draw again, well, like, ever. Being in an environment where swearing and destroying your work as part of your daily practice is noticeably different from the quiet focus of others definitely helped hugely for me to not do that, and complete work. I've got to work slower, check twice, then check thrice. It's quite healthy to distrust sight in geometry, and a careful slow approach shows errors quicker. Lenses are annoying but necessary - I'm thankful for the eyesight I have. Huge piles of notes and diagrams to work through here now. Piles I can show at some point, and piles I can't. Studio walls now layered with papers. Work to do. ______________________________ #islamicgeometry #geometrychaos #geometricart #art #sketch #wip #pathoutofcrippleclub https://www.instagram.com/p/B0X3oymHayy/?igshid=1jt7w6wd00yle

Heading back with a heavy heart and a heavy bag full of art, diagrams and instruction - including this tiny gem from @sandy.kurt It's going to be the first time I'm going to be comfortable having other's art up in the studio, but well, it's appropriate. I've got a lot to remember now. _____________________________ #geometricart #art #islamicgeometry https://www.instagram.com/p/B0PvxhCHHAt/?igshid=bd5ehs00loxe

Chasing down pineal gland pineapples and swastikas in the Alhambra. https://www.instagram.com/p/B0N-pjXHlha/?igshid=6ty8obd9h9lf

Special thanks to everyone who bothered me for quick origami lessons between classes too... I will definitely be running some UK based workshops later in the year - this time they will be strictly geometric and mildly fiendish in terms of difficulty in comparison though. Be prepared! ____________________________________ #quick #origami #workshop https://www.instagram.com/p/B0LjIHRHW9F/?igshid=1af9m2q6704yq

I feel like I've found a family I didn't have before this week, pattern brothers and sisters who understand my motivations and obsessions with little explanation needed. It's going to be very strange travelling away from here. I'm definitely going to be back. @daud.sutton @alandadams2018 @rajen.astho @samira.mian @sandy.kurt @hankab @franziskazk @sabinalima_embroidery  @engelreinout @margi_lake @thegeometrista @ola_elanany @simonae_bosco @orangebox_sarita Rebecca, Shafiq, Mona @startspreadingthenouj & Ligia - thanks for everything. #geometric #geometricart #geometrychaos #monochrome #black #allblackeverything #blackandwhite #art #opart #islamicgeometry #islamicgeometricdesign https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Lcw5JHw3l/?igshid=5c9uswyvqms8

"It is said that the Islamic carpet makers left mistakes in their work so that God would not become jealous. This is in fact not the case. The mistakes are where God gets in" (Peter Redgrave) Pattern instruction by @samira.mian __________________________________________________ #geometricart #geometry #geometrychaos #black #blackeverything #blackandwhite #monochrome #islamicgeometry #islamicgeometricdesign https://www.instagram.com/p/B0GpyXbnpbv/?igshid=68h8fktzof4t

So overjoyed to finish this pattern I almost don't care it's colourful... . __________________ #geometric #geometricart #geometrychaos #islamicgeometry #islamicgeometricdesign #pattern #uncomfortablecolouruse #Pattern instruction by @samira.mian https://www.instagram.com/p/B0BMEG3H9uY/?igshid=te0lpa8xgkfy