Wallpaper ideas

The woman I work for, Jinny Beyer, has a quilt that is tesselating cats, and MC Escher has some pretty freakin awesome tesselations, something I have always wanted to create. I know the basic principles of how to make one, now i just have to work on making a good one. Also, I do not know what kind of thing I want to tesselate, or if I can even dictate that at all or if I will have to conform to whatever shape I can create.

Some examples:

like ceramics?

Here is the blog I am keeping up for Abby's ceramics class if anyone was interested. It is mostly research, but you might get a few ideas, who knows :)

http://robinzclayblu.blogspot.com/

In response to comments...

I have a good number of these animals, some of them are in color, and some are in B+W, but the ones in color can easily become greyscale. I also tried a more conventional paint by number type of design, and wonder if I should convert some/all of these animals to this kind of design?

At this point, I'm thinking it would be a sort of coloring book, mayhaps with a built in story, or some sort of caption for each print. I have seen this style before in coloring books (yes I still color :P), and it couldbe an interesting way to meld the two ideas togehter.

thoughts?

Current Idea

I started out thinking about What I was making for my book, and having had a certain song stuck in my head, I originally thought about finding a song filled with profanity and illustrating a children's book using the lyrics form the song. I planned on making the pages plush, like a baby book, and the illustrations childish. I planned on using the "I'm on a boat" song, but later decided that I did not want to use someone else's lyrics.

The new Idea I had was based off of the multiple drawings I have been doing lately, found at my deviantArt site, which are broken down into more simple shapes, easily converted into a pain/color by number. I love the idea of using these sketches that have no place other than my sketchbook as of now, and I want tot bring in the hand drawn quality to the digital print, but I need to develop the idea further.

I'm open to suggestions, and am looking for a new direction to take this idea, so untill then, sayounara minnasan!

Some book research I did..

Some examples of books that go beyond books. These examples are found from exhibit pictures so there's not a lot of info on the artist. I will try to find more info and make another post later.

Robert The
Afterjoyce

Paul Johnson
Manchester, United Kingdom
Is this the House in a Tree I Saw so Clearly as a Child?
Dyed and cut engineered paper

Carol Barton
Nexus Press
Atlanta, Georgia
Instructions for Assembly
Printed pages, engineered paper

40 Poems
handmade artist book
16"h x 14"w
by Barbara Brown

progress

While I did this first part earlier last week, I did not post so I figured i would drop an update while I was on the computer.

There happens to be a recycling drop off point near to my apartment, and one of the bins is for electronics. Wishing for a little extra pizzaz to add to my final print, I went in to salvage some of the cooler-looking parts :P
Mid way through dismantling a broken monitor, the recycling company's truck pulled up... I was kinda worried I wasn't supposed to be there, as there is a giant sign that says, "THIS AREA IS UNDER VIDEO SURVEILLANCE" turns out he laughed and thought I was salvaging parts to build my own computer. He had no problem with me being there, and I went back to work.





After I got my images printed, I went pyro on the full picture, burning holes to make it appear as though the technology is burning through.





Some of the thought I have had while creating this idea:
-anything can be reproduced through technology
-computer took a scene with little to no technology and made it into bits of data/information
-even those who seek to remove themselves from technology are subject to becoming a part of it
-what happens to the world when technology takes over? Maybe we have so many movies and books about robots taking over is because there is some basis in truth o.O
-Though I can't recall the title I read a book in my childhood about the development of a virtual reality system that allowed the user to go/do whatever they wished without moving from the stasis pod their body rested in. The world eventually falls apart because all the people end up liking the pods better than real life. One boy is left alone on the planet as it collapses around him and the people in the pods start dying off because there is no one around to take care of them