#journalprompt9

For this pattern, I decided to go with complementary colors, as well as a few other analogous colors to add depth. The tone of the yellows are meant to reflect a sand/desert kind of feel, while the blues are reminiscent of the desert sky, while the purples reflect some extra color you may see on desert flowers. The background may seem like diamonds and squares, but I actually used triangles. I overlapped four huge ones and changed the opacity on each, creating the cool blue/purple design behind the middle flower. For the gaps this method left, I merely used the pen tool to make some more triangles and fill them in. For all the star/flower patterns I utilized the technique we learned last semester (rotate and copy) to make symmetrical shapes. For the yellow and dark yellow silhouetted star-shapes on the split-tone diamonds, I used two stars, one light and one dark on their contrasting wedges, on the right and bottom edge of the pattern so they stuck out of the square, and when it came time to repeat the pattern, those two stars fit snugly onto the opposite wedge with their same color. Hence, the partial silhouette! Hopefully that made sense.