pattern generation

the drawings continue apace. i'm in the habit now of powering out 2 or 3 every day, which is generating a nice collection after nearly four weeks in berlin. another four weeks still remain, so plenty of time to continue this spurt of creative output. after i complete my little moleskine book of 100 pages, i'll be able to select the most effective drawings and make a series of larger scale drawings. hopefully, a couple of different series.

also, i discovered that my newly favourite pen for these drawings - staedtler pigment liner 0.3 and 0.5 - are german-made and thus, cheaper in berlin than home. i picked up a new 0.3 today, and yes, i'm chuffed about it! 

again, i'm trying to approach each blank page without any preconception and just start with a mark - leading to lines and patterns. the drawings feel as if they conjure themselves on to the page. as always, certain trends appear and lately it's been more abstract patterns, flora mutating with tools (or vice versa) and invented plants/flowers. the last drawing above takes from scientific botanical illustration, articulating the component parts of the imagined flower and seed casing.

using economic or financial data as the catalyst for generating the patterns of the flowers and/or leaves is still on my mind and i'll need to find a way of establishing the rules for that pattern generation. i'm thinking here of, for example, the share price fluctuation of, say, resource companies in a given period. volume of stocks traded, increase and decrease in value, and comparative performance against competitors in the same sector could act as the parameters or the triggers for the variation in tone, colour, direction of line etc etc.