Sun and Rain

I thought it was high time to get back to playing with creating patterns from photos.  This week's subject is not technically a natural object, though it does represent nature at work.

It is the weathered edge of the Celestri sculpture which graces the courtyard of the Four Seasons hotel, across the road from our condo.

I used the mosaic function to tease out individual colours:

This is just begging for a Fair Isle treatment - the juxtaposition of desaturated cool hues with the hot peachy copper, and the sober shades of black anchoring the bottom.  The cracks in the metal clearly suggest the shaded two colour ribbing that would border the garment.

The first step is to sample each of the three main colour groupings (I generally start by pulling out as many different colour variants as I can find, without worrying about order or proportion.)

But since this is getting to be an awfully long and picture-heavy post, I shall carry on with the process of analyzing, ordering, and patterning tomorrow.