Zenspirations: Letters & Patterning
By Joanne Fink
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Joanne Fink
Joanne Fink, an award‑winning designer, calligrapher, and author, spent 20 years as an art director in the greeting card industry. She specializes in developing products for the gift, stationery, craft and faith-based markets. With more than a million books in print, Joanne is the author of 17 books from Fox Chapel Publishing, including Zenspirations® Coloring Book Inspirations, Flowers of Faith Coloring Book, and L'Chaim: Celebrate Life.
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Zenspirations - Joanne Fink
These are some of the first illustrations I did when I started incorporating patterning into my work. The illustrations on page 4 are scans of the original 3 ½ x 3 ½
pieces; the ones on this page are scans of two (or more) pieces of art which were composed digitally. One advantage of working both digitally and by hand, is that it allows me to letter my text at a larger size so I have better control of the letterforms, then scan, reduce and place it in the artwork.
THE CREATIVE PROCESS
IllustrationSTEP 1: Draw a shape. Here is a flower as an example.
IllustrationSTEP 2: Add a small space around the edge of the shape.
IllustrationSTEP 3: Add pattern inside the spaces.
COLORIZATION OPTIONS
IllustrationOPTION A:
An original drawing that was hand painted with watercolors.
IllustrationOPTION B:
Scan of original drawing, cleaned in Photoshop, then printed on watercolor paper and hand painted in watercolors.
IllustrationOPTION C:
Scan of original drawing cleaned and colored digitally in Photoshop.
BASIC MATERIALS
One of the nice things about patterning is that it doesn’t require a lot of expensive art supplies. All you really need is a pen, a