Flashback 5/75 Redux

I'm doing one of those "Post 5 Artworks..." challenges on Facebook [find mine here], and I thought I'd make it more complicated for myself by making blog posts with the art. Each day a different blog. [Yes, I have 5+ blogs. Ack!]
Pattern Recognition is the third blog that I created, in May 2009. It came about to support an exhibition with the same title at TAG Gallery held June-July 2009. As I say in the sidebar, I was big on patterns in the 70s, and now I make them at the day job. And teach them every Spring semester at Otis. [8/2019 correction. Someone hijacked my class and I was "fired" by departmental ghosting. Not happy about this].
Anyway.

From time to time, I'll design repeats for myself. They show up here.

Here is a new pattern:

©2016 Anne M Bray
Yardage available on Spoonflower soon.
Printed on various items by Society6 here.

I'm going to get leggings printed up, waiting for a sale!

In 2011, I had made a white ground colorway, which I rediscovered while looking for something else:

@2011 Anne M Bray
Yardage available on Spoonflower eventually.
Printed on various items by Society6 here.

In 1975, I created the original silkscreen print:

Anne M Bray, 1st Series, #7, Silkscreen monoprint, ©1975 

Read an older post from 2011 about this work.

The 18 hour Paisley

I worked on this paisley for 3 days.
Here are some of the steps I went through to get it into repeat.

the original "art" from the client

had to reduce it to B+W first, worked in photoshop (psd)

considered completing paisley by hand drawing
got this far and nixed the notion
I can draw nicer shapes with the pen tool in ai

straightened it out using skew transformation

mirrored the elements
I then took it all into Illustrator (ai) and Live Traced

here are elements that I pulled to make custom ai brushes

here are all the brushes in ai

working out the repeat

it's all little bits of vectors from the Live Tracing
big file!

repeat done

I then exported it to psd
and brought back into ai
re-Live Traced
to make it a nice simplified flat file

adjusted colors to beige + grey

finally done

celebrated with chocolate truffles

Spoonflower Design: googie coffee shops of greater Los Angeles toile

Cityscapes. Create a fabric design using a view, or elements of a view, of a particular city. 

VOTE HERE

Happy New Year!

here's a Bloody Mary repeat for what ails you:

original photo swiped off from Google Images search
used for entertainment purposes only

done (I think)

Inked #2 13 x 19" Digital Monoprint

restart

this one is a good start gone bad...

I was happily feeding this through the printer, one layer at a time, letting chance create the layered composition and then I decided it needed some new different marks...
I drew some with litho crayon, scanned, made a repeat and put it through the printer again
well
I forgot to specify the printer when adjusting the paper size and it printed the wrong way (plus I don't like the scale of the marks -- too big) doh!

I liked this print a lot until the last pass, and decided to replicate the process
THIS TIME I used layers in photoshop to fine tune the blending:
still not quite finished, but getting close

a most mysterious technique

This comes from a studio in Korea
All they will reveal is that it was done in photoshop

I first put this up on Facebook, but realize that the discussion needs to widen. I've compiled the initial comments and ideas in the first comment below.

To me, the shading looks like a half-tone dot screen effect...

When you zoom way in, you'll see within the dots are dot gradations -- herein lies the mystery!