Sean Lewis Art: pattern

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Friday, January 1, 2016

Hex Signs

I've been researching hex signs. These colonial dutch ornaments adorn barns and homes throughout the northeast United States. Especially around amish settled Pennsylvania.

Some of my favorite images:

Bright color and patterns. Right up my alley!

I took inspiration from these, but wanted to create a new style that mixed the traditional hex signs with a framework of color and pattern.

Hex Horse, Gouache on paper. copyright sean lewis 2016

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Houndstooth Pattern #6 (pointillist houndstooth)

The lightbox has reappeared

17"x14" Marker on Vellum. copyright seanlewis2010

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Collage #11

Collage #11 copyright sean lewis 2010

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Collage #7

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Face Collage

I became a bit lazy about blogging towards the end of my roadtrip, but I am back in NY now! There are a few more installations I need to post, but first, a collage of Angelina Jolie's face!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Jackpot!
While searching through some old CAD files yesterday, I sumbled upon these designs. I reworked the colors a little bit, but the pattern designs were from probably 3 years ago.

Hex pattern 1 copyright sean lewis 2010

Cone Pattern 1 copyright sean lewis 2010

And my personal favorite:

Untitled pattern #2 copyright sean lewis 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Pattern Art
Taking a much needed painting break today. Here are some patterns i worked on:

Houndstooth pattern 5 copyright sean lewis 2010

The houndstooth pieces always end up looking like snowflakes.

Houndstooth pattern 4 copyright sean lewis 2010

Wale pattern 4 copyright sean lewis 2010

This is a piece I gave to Geoffrey's mom for xmas. Hers was done in blue with a white background though. The painting is looking absolutely amazing. I think I'll wait a bit longer before showing it again. Maybe I'll wait till it's done. Ha!

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Process/Progress

The Liquin original has worked well so far. It stretches the paint and makes it more workable. I think I would like to use something that has a bit more thickness for texture. The painting is coming along. I'm going to try and do some photo work over the next few days as well.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Houndstooth Pattern

I'm waiting for my first layer of oil paint to dry. Here is a houndstooth pattern I drew today. It's actually above freezing today and sunny! I'm off to take some pictures.

Houndstooth Pattern #4 copyright sean lewis 2010

Friday, January 1, 2010

Car collage

Got to work on some ideas for the next painting. I'm thinking a car crash collage. Here's a first attempt. This will be hard to paint though.

Collage #3 copyright sean lewis 2010

Christmas Presents!

Sorry about the delay in posts. It was a busy holiday in Detroit and Chicago. I did get some cool digital pics of nuclear power plants on the way home in Pennsylvania. I'll post some art made from those soon. This year I made everyone art for Christmas and was planning on posting all the pieces after I gave them out, but things got busy and I didn't scan or photograph any. Many of the pieces were made digitally, but then traced, drawn, or painted. So, I'm going to post a few of the initial digital pieces. Here is one that I gave to my dad. It's based off the same Mercedes that I painted (shown in first post).

Mercedes collage 1 copyright sean lewis 2009

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Another photo abstraction

I took one of the black and white photos from an earlier post and made this color overlay in photoshop. I then painted it in oil for Geoffrey for christmas! Merry christmas!

Industrial Building #3 copyright sean lewis 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Sidewalk findings

I walked around Clinton Hill today looking for cool sidewalk crack patterns. Finding good ones was actually harder than I thought. I guess people keep their sidewalks in good repair in my hood. Here's one of the pieces I made from them:

Sidewalk Crack #1 copyright sean lewis 2009

I also found this green paper that had amazing folds:

Monday, December 14, 2009

Sean Stripes II

My Sean Stripes 'woven' together with a red butterfly pattern.

Teal and Red 48x48 Oil on canvas copyright sean lewis 2009

This was inspired by my computer's glitches. I was overlaying the red pattern on the teal one in CAD, and the print preview showed it all weird and intertwined. So I gave it that effect when I painted it. Not the first computer glitch inspired design of mine. Excited to go photographing tomorrow! I'm gonna take some sidewalk crack shots!