Sad Dog

What is appealing to me about tessellations is their marriage of rigid form and organic flow. To make a tessellation properly, the rules of symmetry must be followed. To make a tessellation special, some artistic flavor belongs in there too.

At first, I wasn't sure what the heck to make out of the stencil because it just looked like a brown abstract shape. After playing with it and comparing different rotations, finally the Happy-Sad Dog showed his faces.

To emphasize their facial expressions, the Happy Dog faces are bright, sunny orange, and the Sad Dog faces are dull, gray-ish blue. I chose the contrasting color scheme of orange and blue to represent the duality that exists in each of us: light vs. dark, devil vs. angel, et cetera.

My favorite part about this tessellation, in addition to the colors, is the eyes on the dogs. They each look a little different, giving a slightly altered expression for each dog. Some examples I see are:

Progress Sampling

Proof of Happy-Sad Dog Tessellation

These simplistic tessellation activities are excellent for unleashing the imagination, a skill I have been honing more and more these days by expanding into different creative outlets. Care to exercise your imagination for a moment?

_{Same stencil used to create Happy-Sad Dog}

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