Introduction to Astronomy

I've started a Coursera course in Introductory Astronomy last week and so far I am thoroughly enjoying it.  Some of the images shown in the first lecture were absolutely amazing, but it soon descended into a lot of math (which I'm actually enjoying).

Andromeda Galaxy (M31) by R Gendler

Pattern Wednesday #5

Last wednesday I posted some patterns that I had done as part of a Nicole's Classes, Making A Pattern class.  For the second week of the class, I produced some more interesting and complicated patterns.  For these patterns, I used the Dovera Pictura book 'Islamic Design' for inspiration.  

The first pattern I tried I ended up re-doing about 3 times as it was really hard to make it symmetrical but I figured it out eventually after much cursing at the computer.  For the second pattern I chose a slightly simpler design to give my eyes and frustration level a break!

Pattern #1

Pattern #2

Pattern Wednesday #4

I'm currently doing a Making A Pattern class over at Nicole's Classes for a bit of fun and it brush up on my Illustrator skills. This is the random repeat pattern I created for Week 1:

I used the 'How to Draw a Pug' tutorial from Gemma Correll.

This is the geometrical pattern I created for Week 2:

Next pattern challenge will be a damask, eek!