A CARPET PAGE’S PROGRESS/PROCESS VII

The spiral of my closed fist with pencil stains on my hands from all that tracing and transferring ~

 

A CARPET PAGE’S PROGRESS/PROCESS VI

Getting increasingly complex: I outlined some of the lines I’d already drawn in green in order to differentiate them from the new layer I was doing. However, there are ways to simplify… by drawing one-eighth of the spirals, the whole piece can effectively be done via the trace and re-trace method. ~

A CARPET PAGE’S PROGRESS/PROCESS V

 

Layering up the elements of the pattern – the underlying spirals freely flow in and out of each other and the inner carpet box is coming to completion. Tiny circles are for tiny flowers to be added later on with my brush (which is more accurate than the pencil) ~