I love doodling "paisley" shapes and "cats eye" shapes to explore pattern and color. Out of all the little sketches (mostly colored pencil) I usually choose 2 or 3 to play with in making a Kaleidoscope shape. The thing is, No matter how roughly the shape has been drawn and colored, once used to create the Kaleidoscope shape, it is usually amazing. Here are a whole set of shapes I was playing with, and then the ones I selected to make a Kaleidoscope image. (That was done in a program like Corel Paintshop Pro, Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Elements or Gimp, but can be done by making 8 color copies of each pattern-cutting and assembling them.) The three elements I chose have a black arrow by them.
These are the three shapes I chose to play with
The first image was used to create a circle. as follows:
1.Place two of the pattern opposite each other.
2.Next place an additional two 90degrees from the first two, and opposite.
3. Place the final set of 4 individually in the remaining open spaces.
Second Image Added
Third Image added: Final Kaleidoscope :-)
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