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Construct and Colour a Geometric Flower: Your Own Mother’s Day Artwork

teacher avatar Diana Reeves, Geometric Artist & Educator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:21

    • 2.

      Materials

      2:59

    • 3.

      The Basic Grid

      7:06

    • 4.

      Constructing Flower 1

      7:09

    • 5.

      Painting Flower 1

      9:38

    • 6.

      Constructing Flower 2

      9:13

    • 7.

      Outlining Flower 2

      7:18

    • 8.

      Transferring Flower 2

      3:36

    • 9.

      Painting Flower 2

      7:41

    • 10.

      Thank You!

      0:33

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In this class, I invite you to learn with me how to draw two different designs of a geometric curved flower using a ruler and a compass on a circular grid. The patterns in this project can be used to decorate your home, make a Mother’s Day card, or as a gift to a loved one for any occasion.

Hi, I’m Diana - a mathematics and geometric art educator.

My passion is to incorporate the shapes and symmetry of geometric construction into my art, whilst exploring various creative media.

In this course I will teach you how to construct a basic circular grid in a square arrangement, and then extend the layout to create two variations of a curved symmetrical flower design.

The first pattern is suitable for an artist of any level of experience, due to the systematic nature of geometric construction by following simple steps, whereas the second one provides further challenge.

We will also explore colouring the designs, including the use of watercolour paints and metallic outlining, giving you the inspiration to make your artwork unique.

So join me as I continue to share my love of geometry with you.

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Diana Reeves

Geometric Artist & Educator

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My name is Diana. I am a geometric artist, as well as a mathematics and geometric art teacher.

My work combines the precision, regularity and symmetry of geometric structure, with the freedom of creative expression through a variety of media, with a particular preference for watercolour. I really enjoy the transparency, textures, mixtures and generally the unpredictability of watercolours.

I get inspired by spotting shapes everywhere and visualising them in a variety of new ways. I am also hugely motivated by geometry in architecture and enjoy analysing the patterns of floorings, windows, ceilings and pretty much all structures.

Check out my website on https://mathsimum.com/
Download my PDF instructions on https://ko-fi.com/mathsimum
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1. Introduction: In this class, I invite you to learn with me how to draw two different designs of a geometric curved flower using a ruler and a compass on a circular grid. The patterns in this project can be used to decorate your home, make a Mother's Day card, or as a gift to a loved one for any occasion. Hi, I'm Ana, a mathematics and geometric art teacher. My passion is to incorporate the shapes and symmetry of geometric construction into my art whilst exploring various creative media. In this course, I will teach you how to construct a basic circular grid in a square arrangement. And then extend the layout to create two variations of a curved symmetrical flower design. The first pattern is suitable for an artist of any level of experience due to the systematic nature of geometric construction by following simple steps. Whereas the second one provides further challenge. We will also explore coloring the designs, including the use of watercolor paints and metallic outlining, giving you the inspiration to make your artwork unique. Join me as I continue to share my love of geometry with you. 2. Materials: We look at the materials you will need to complete your two flower designs. You can print the step by step instructions, including the templates I've provided for sizing. And just for help with outlining, you will need a plain piece of paper to construct on, then paper on which you want your actual design to be decorated. I'm going to be using watercolor paper. You can use square brown paper will be really nice for this because the design is circular. Anyway, that would look really nice. However, these are usually a little bit smaller, so you need to think about the scale. You might want to also go on different color paper. I am going to use some water color black paper. You can use card that's not necessarily water color, that is of any color that you wish for using and transferring onto that. You'll need some tracing paper, like similar to this one or whatever you have. I have tha paper, I prefer the heat 90 GSM works better for me to construct the grid that underlines the patterns. You're going to need a ruler, a sharp pencil eraser, a waterproof fine liner, and a compass. Your compass may only have already a pencil lead attached to it, and that will not stop you from creating these designs. However, for this course, I highly recommend using a compass with a pen attachment. The reason for this is that both designs are entirely made of curves. And you may want to emphasize the beauty of the design by changing the medium that outlines the design. You might not even want to paint. You may use color fine liners, color pencils, metallics or any other things that you will not be able to use without this. If you choose to paint your design like I am going to, you will need some water color paints or any kind of paints that you like. Using a pipette is a good idea to mix and control the amount of color you put in your paint water cup and somewhere to mix your water colors. Obviously, you will need a brush. You will also enjoy using metallics for outlining your pattern, for giving that little bit of extra gold and that extra sparkle for your design. If you choose not to paint, you could still use beautiful colors from fine liners, pencils, highlighters, alcohol markers, anything else you have. The majority of these will hopefully fit into your pen attachment if you have that. 3. The Basic Grid: We are now going to learn how to construct a simple circular grid on a square arrangement. This is different when you do a circular grid on a hexagonal arrangement. For this, you're going to need your compass, a ruler, a pencil, and an eraser. As this is just practice, we're not really going to measure and find the center of the page or worry about any sizing right now. We're just going to learn about the shape of the grid itself. I'm going to draw a horizontal line, roughly around the middle of the page without worrying about the size. I'm just roughly going to mark the center, somewhere in the middle. I already have a pencil inside my compass and making sure that the lead of the pencil and the pin, when close together, are roughly aligned, then I can open the compass to a random distance. Now I need to make sure that I can fit three of those on my page. So I'm going to go a bit smaller than this. I'm going to start, like most constructions, by putting the pin in the middle and starting with an initial central circle. I'm going to turn my handle one full turn until the pencil goes back to the original position and it makes a complete turn. We can do that again. There we have it circle. Now, by drawing a circle on a straight line, we have created two new intersections. And those intersections will tell us where to go next. I'm going to go to the right without changing the compass. I'm going to draw another circle, identical size, which creates two more intersections. And do the same on the other side, on the horizontal line through the center, that created even more intersections. If I was to construct a hexagon, I will construct four more circles in these points, I actually can't construct a square unless I start constructing a hexagon. However, I don't want to overload the breed in the picture and the construction. I'm only going to use two small arcs which are essentially part of full circles. If I was drawing a full circle, I'll make one here next, but all I'm going to do is draw a small arc above my central circle. And I'm going to do the same from where the next circle would have been, but I don't need the entire circle, but you can visualize that going through the center and through the other points, another arc ensuring they cross. If for some reason you didn't go far enough and they don't cross, just go back to that point and just make your arc long enough. Minor crossing, so it's long enough, I need to do the same thing down here. I'm going to do a partial arc from here and from here. Just below here. Here. Now in theory, I didn't need that point because I already have two points and every line only needs two points to construct. However, since we're doing everything by hand and accuracy gets lost, since we're human, having three points as a reference just gives us that extra little bit of accuracy. Now these points will show me where to draw straight line. The reason I need this straight line is to ensure that I have a line perpendicular to the horizontal, which will be perfectly at right angle. Here I have it, perhaps more super accurate at the top, but this now shows me where there's a right angle. Now I could try and draw this way to create three more right angles, but actually that's more complicated. This could be the middle of my square, which I'm about to create. Now these two points are no longer needed. They were just to locate the vertical line that I needed. But the reason why I needed the vertical line isn't this. It's to show me where the new intersections with my original central circle are. Now I have two here instead of two there and two there, which would have created a hexagon. I need these two which would create a square. I'm now going to to the one at the top which will go through the center again. And then the one below which will go through the center. Now I have four circles arranged in a square around the original circle. Whether you look at it this way or this way, it's a square. Today's designs, I don't actually need to construct a square. I don't actually need any straight lines in the final design. But I needed to be able to construct four circles in a square arrangement. Now I need to find four more because our final design is an octagonal eight fold design. To do that, I'm going to need the two diagonals that go in between the circles that we have. This is where that invisible square is useful, because the diagonals of that square is what I want if I go from this point through the middle to the end point here, and do the same on the other side, this is where the square would be. Now I'm not actually interested in the corners of the square, but I am interested in where the diagonals of the square make a new intersection with the original circle. It all goes back to rotating and surrounding the original circle. We need those four now because we're going to draw another four circles in another square arrangement which are overlapping the original, we should end up with eight you. 4. Constructing Flower 1: We're now going to construct the first flower design and we need to decide on our sizing. What you need to know about your paper is that roughly the radius of the original circle. Need to be able to fit six times in your page. It's actually slightly less, but that's okay. If you have a bit of extra space left over, that's not a problem. I'm still unsure whether to go for circular or square paper. I think I'm going to go for square and see how it goes. -20 centimeters across. I need to find my center first before I can start constructing directly on the watercolor paper. There's my 10 centimeters. I like to measure halfway down the side again. And then draw a horizontal line through the marks I just made. The center of that as well, somewhere around here. If I go with three centimeter radius, I can fit that six times to make 18. And it will leave me some space either side, you could go a little bit smaller. This will come out fairly big, starting in the middle, just like before. Now to add the second layer of circles, we need to locate the correct points. If you look in the center, we've created some very small almond shapes, some medium sized almond shapes, and some very large almond shapes. For this design, we're going to look at the ends of the medium sized ones. I'm going to put the compass on this point, then open the compass to the middle. All the circles in this design go through the middle one. Then I'm going to move 45 degrees in the clockwise direction. Again, it's the end of this petal and it lies on the axis we've already been on, and that we drew earlier through the center, full circle. I'll repeat this six more times. Notice now that the second layer of circles created yet another layer of almond shaped petals surrounding the ones we were just using to find our points. Here is a leaf, a petal within a petal. We're going to do this one more time. However, the design isn't going to go further out and increase in size because we're going to do only partial arc in order to create one more layer of petals without actually enlarging the diameter of this whole design. Previously we were constructing from here for these circles. Then from here for those circles, now we're going to go here along the same axis for the final size circles. I'm going to put my point on there. Again, I need to open the compass back to the center. Now you will see that if I try to do this, there's not enough space for a full circle. I don't need that. What I need is where the point of the compass is. I need to start drawing from the line which is 45 degrees from one side, which will also be where the circle intersects that axis, from here through the middle and stop on the other side, the axis which is 45 degrees on the other side of where we're starting from. If you trace with your eyesight, this right angle, this is what we're connecting. Which is exactly half of the circle and not the external half. We don't need start from here through the center and stop. Now I'm going to move 45 degrees back at the end of here. And start from the axis next to it, through the middle. And stop at that end. And repeat this six more times. These are the petal arcs complete. Now we just need to go back and do the external leaves just go back extending the middle point, which isn't. That was the final point on the middle point on this one. I can check before I draw anything that it's going to emphasize these, okay? Now with that radius, it's part of this circle. I want to draw this arc. Skip a bit, and then draw this arc just like that. I'm going to do it at an angle slightly, this one here. And I'm turning the paper so you can see on camera here. Then move to the next middle sized point. Just check that matches this. Yes, then skip this bit. Then just this arc, these are all the arcs outlined that we are keeping in the design. And now I'm going to rob the rest of. 5. Painting Flower 1: Okay. We're now ready to start painting. I've chosen these two colors, which I think will look really nice, flowery, springy, sunny, but not just one color. I would blend them but alternate them slightly as well on wet, and I can build up the intensity if I decide to. So I'm using these two and we'll see how it goes. Firstly, I'm going to just put some clear water. I'll put this one actually slightly tinted so maybe you can see put that all over the actual flower, since it's such a large area, it won't be drying at the same rate, let it dry for a bit. Then I'll apply a second layer in the hope that the second layer will sit a bit more evenly, closer to the surface of the paper. That way it should be a bit more even, nicely blended. Even though I'm not too worried about even to me, I like blended and abstracts backgrounds. If you like details, you can always add them on top or do it whichever way you want. I just wanted to see how these two colors work together. I will start with the inner petals and just do that for now. Then I'll do those on the side. I'll leave the four in between just for now. I see that is not I don't want it to be awfully intense. I want it to be fairly subtle, but it might not work that way. I'll now go in the middle of the alternate petals. I see this in a very different look compared to the second design. I don't want it to be completely solid and completely following the geometry. I wanted it to be a bit less defined on purpose. That's just what I don't like it. I want it to look like I like these layers of gaps that are forming. And then I'm hoping that the other color will slot in and blend into those gaps and make some interesting patterns. I can add a bit more intense color later once we see how it's starting to dry. Now I won't, I'm going to move on to the other color, such a pretty pink color here. I will start with the alternate petals. I think that these two colors look really nice together. Any one of those on their own will probably be a bit too much together. I don't like the look you can go with any colors or types of flowers, if this inspires a particular type of a flower that it reminds you of something you love, or if you're doing this for someone in particular that you know will enjoy a particular particular flower, particular color shade, it is meaningful. I like this bit, it's very relaxing. I find the geometry very relaxing because of how systematic it is. Fine, relaxing for other reasons is just, is just fun. Then you're just seeing what comes out. I like a little bit more definition on the side. I don't know how you see that. I've left the remaining eight. I see those more as leaves rather than petals. I think that be too much of this call to keep going with the same. I would. I would suggest, oh, I would personally go with green, light green, as if this is a bouquet that you're looking at or a flower that you're seeing from above. And these are the leaves that are coming out of the stem further down, peeking through, just to break up that warm color here. Now I'm going to do nice leaves and try and make sure that I cover up any spillage. I'm not too worried about that, but it makes more sense to be blended here than here. That's why I can repeat. That's a really nice grassy green shade. It's a bit one dimensional on this bit, but that's, it's not so much a problem with the green. Think now we'll outline all of these petals one more time. At the end, when everything is dry, it will really define the petals. And then I'm thinking that I will probably put some shading on one side so it looks like each of the smaller petal is just above one of the larger ones. Those finishing touches can sometimes make all the difference. It's just little details until we're really happy. But again, please remember, there's no right or wrong. If you already have your established artistic style and it's just the geometry you're adding to your talk, it, then that's what you're gaining. If like me, the geometry and the shapes are your main motivation, then that allows you to explore a lot of different techniques. I'm exploring things that I probably never would have done if it wasn't for my love and affinity for geometry. For me, the shapes is where I feel comfortable. And these curves, I mean, they just look so good. Regardless of what you do with them. I just like to have some, a symbol. I overlap a few circles and I think of flowers, okay. I overlap a few circles and I think of arts or squares or mexagonsyyth shapes. This makes it even more interesting for me to see what other people do with the same thing. There's just infinitely many ways to tackle any of those two, to see any of those, Even if you do, you could do the same design, geometric design several times and emphasize completely different parts and then it's a completely different look and a different perspective of the same thing. I like that a lot. I will dry that completely and then I will outline all the petals with my copper shiny pen. The paint is now dry, looking very gentle and pretty. I'm now going to outline all the arcs to emphasize these petals in exactly the same way as before. Just this time using the final. I've gone for copper. I'm actually going to go for this size leaves first. This is done. The copper looks so pretty that I don't actually want to add any shading. And then we can move on now next to the second pattern. 6. Constructing Flower 2: The construction of the second flower is a little bit trickier, and working out the scale is trickier as well. Although this is the final design, we do need these points here which go further out. Which is why we need more space than we might initially think. I did a draft here and you could see I've emphasized these. Although they're not part of my design, I do need these points, Unlike the previous design, which you needed to be able to fit within your page six times, this one, the initial circle is roughly 12 times smaller than the end result. Meaning that if you're working on the same size paper as you were for flower one, you will need to start with a circle, half the size, half the radius. I started with a circle three centimeter radius. This design I will need 1.2 centimeters. This would work quite well for four and letter size. Since letter size is a tiny bit wider or even just about the square paper I used for the previous design, which was 20, I probably wouldn't go any less than that. 19 might just about accommodate 19 centimeters. But if you're working with about 20:21 centimeters, which is somewhere between 88.5 ", which is probably what most people are using, that will be fine. However, I think this design is a little bit too difficult to go straight on a precious water color heavy paper. I suggest that we start constructing on a normal piece of paper. I'm going to start by finding the center of my page. This is a four, which is nearly 30, not quite 30 centimeters. I tend to mark 14.8 on this size. This isn't the final one. It doesn't 1 millimeter or be a huge problem. Then I will draw the horizontal, which is 21 for this one, not 20, like a watercolor paper, I need to mark 10.5 I'm now going to put the pencil in the compass and I'm going to go with 1.5 centimeters, which is very small. Initially, the accuracy here will be slightly less, but the design is so nice that it doesn't matter. Okay, 1.5 is this. I can't, I could probably go 1.6 but I will not risk it. The starting point up until the first layer of ad circles is exactly the same as before. This is the first layer of the eight circles and you can see how tiny they are compared to the previous one if you didn't do the previous one. Now in the previous one, we noticed that there were very small petal shapes, medium sized ones, and larger sized ones. The previous design went to the edges of this middle one. With this one, we go straight for the big one. These are the intersecting points on the outer layer of this design. Then again, we want to go into the middle. I'm going to use two different points just to double check my distance because this isn't going to be perfectly accurate. It's a tricky one, but so beautiful in the end that it doesn't matter, you have to take the average. Okay. So now I'm going to make eight circles around and see what happens. This is the second layer complete, and as you can see, the second layer circles are much, much bigger. But the thing they did create are not only the eight layers which we already had, but those tapered edges that the petals now appear to have. The idea is to create three of those layers for the next layer of circles. We initially used this as a center. Of the first circle, then we've just used the end of this larger petal for the end of the circle of this size. Now we're going to go all the way here. That is, back on the axis. Notice that this one, the axis of the centers of the circles alternate. We have this one. Then in between now we're going to go back to this one and do a full round circle. This is going to be determining the final size of the entire design. Hopefully as long as we can fit this layer of circles. The last one after that is partial, it's not going to increase the size. I'm going to put my compass point on here. Notice that if we did this fairly accurately, which we did each of those cross on there, it's the outer intersections, but this time they all lie on the axis that we drew. Okay, again, we'll open the compass all the way to the middle. They should go through the corners of my medium sized petals, because this is what's going to create another layer of tapered off looking petals. I'm just going to check them all, actually. In that way, I'm creating myself the correct point here. I'm slightly off center. That's okay. It will be easier once I have the correct points when I'm mid flow drawing more circles. Okay, eight circles on the outer edge. Let's go. We have just one more layer to do, which is only partial circles. And they are going to fit in this size, as you may have guessed it. It is in between each axis, and on the outer edge of intersections, I'm going to go and open my compass. I will try these too. This one looks okay bit short actually. That just moved. Okay, let's try it from here. Should be the same, should go through these short. This is a bit wide. Some of them that will do. Now I'm going to put this one here, since we're between two, axsore those two. We're going to go to 12 on one side, but only up to here. We don't need to go any further up than that through the center stop at that edge there. We're going, this is where the point is that we're using two axis to one side, one to stop on the other side from here, 12. But I only need to go up to this point where there's a leaf already there through the middle and stop. I'm going to do another six of those arcs. 7. Outlining Flower 2: As before, I'm going to start with the largest radius, meaning that these are the outer edges of the biggest petals in the design that we're going to construct. Our points of the compass are going to be on the edges of this, which is still in the design. We're going to with the radius through the center. Going to do that arc. Stop when we meet the middle petals, jump over the opposite middle sized petal and complete the arc. We want to avoid these two layers in the middle. For this, we start on the same outer points that we just used. Okay, so I'm going to start from the corner of the big petal, stopping just before the medium sized one. Then the medium. Again, if you make sure you don't move this, you could see where trace from outwards in. As soon as you see the next leaf, you stop. So there you go. You need to repeat that from the same other centers that we already created. And I'm going to repeat this six more times now. We're going to go to the previous points, which were the outer points of that medium sized grid here. Here, and so on. So let me adjust that first before I show you where we need to go. Okay, what these arcs are going to do, they are going to draw the outside of the arcs and petals that we've just emphasized. We just emphasize the inside of these biggest petals. Now those arcs are going to do the outside. These are more curved because they have a shorter radius. However, if you notice here, the outer arc of the biggest petal is also the inner arc of the middle petal with this size radius. We're going to start from the same corners as we did before, but go through the middle petal and stop when we meet the smallest ones in the middle. Skip those and meet on the other side. Just going back to here to demonstrate from the same edge. Now this is just one line either side on this axis. On this line, I need to start from the previous line, which is up here. Go through the big petal, through the small one. I just need to lift this off to carefully see how far to go. Oh, and stop there where I meet the smaller ones. Stop here. This will be useful to see where to stop. I'm avoiding the sizes here. Okay. And then jump over that from here to the end. Okay. Now, move 45 degrees further down from the line next to it or the corner we've already created, through the big petal, through the medium. And stop where you meet that opposite smallest circle. Jump over. I went a little bit too far, but that doesn't matter because I'm going to trace that. Skip this middle eight leaves or petals. And from here to the edge. And six more times now you can see we've created the outer edges of our biggest petals, but also the inner edges of those middle sized ones. Now the next size circles will go smaller. Again, we just use these points, which are on the outer edges of the second layer inwards. Now we need to go one further. The smallest circular grid is actually where the centers of the next circle we need, which is the medium size circle. Okay, let's just see what those circles are now going to do. They're going to complete the outside of the middle circle, but also we're going to continue with them because they're going to be the inside of the smallest layer. In fact, we can now go through all that through the middle and out. We're just doing half circles now. Okay, this lays complete one of them. I went a bit too far. In fact, since this is not my original, I'm going to just repeat that. If this is where you are going, it's not a big problem. Since I'm going to transfer that, I will then trace the one that's slightly shorter. How pretty does that start to look? It's just such a great design. Now, we want to complete these tapered off edges as well, but before that, I really like these curves here. They have the same radius as what we're doing now. I will do those before we continue. Now, we need to reduce our compass to the smallest original circle with radius. In my case, it was 1.5 centimeters. That is to finish off the smallest layer of petals. Yeah, that should be okay. So it's to complete the shapes. As you can see, I'm not going to cross anything. I will stop and not go all the way through that leaf, starting with my original circle and see where I should go next. I'm just going to turn that, I'm going to start from here and stop there in the middle. And then turn and do this on that side again, from the top to the middle, and from the middle to the top. 8. Transferring Flower 2: Now I've covered my design with a whole piece of tracing paper and secured it with masking tape to the page. The construction page, which then I've secured to the board. I want them to move together and not one without the other. If they do move, you could see clearly. Now all I'm going to do is trace these exact same arcs one more time on top of the tracing paper with the same centers, the same radiuses that we've just used. And I'm going to use pencil because I need that pencil to be able to transfer onto my other paper that I'm going to be doing, my final designer, I've now found the center of my page, secured it. Flip the tracing paper over, secure that as well. I'm just now going to trace. I can see I've missed one arc there, but I'll be able to tell where it needs to go. I can see already here, we're going to have to use the holes we've made into the tracing paper instead of the underlying grid. The further points on the outside, you need to look very carefully on your tracing paper to find them. On the edges, I can see them, I'm not sure if you can, but you need to just be able to see your own and I'll go around the page going this way. 9. Painting Flower 2: I had to press quite hard. This was very difficult to transfer on this paper because it's dark and it's such good thick quality, it's heavy with my compass point. Really hard, so I can then very lightly outline. Now I'm going to officially go over, this is going to be the final outlining of the pattern with the painting. That is, I think the silver will look amazing on this paper. This looks amazing on the black paper. It really looks fantastic. It doesn't smudge, this could be left just as it is. I think it doesn't need too much color. But I will add this gorgeous, magnificent pearl lavender to just the tapered edges, just to emphasize those layers, that layer ring of the flower. I'm going to add a little bit of water to make it easier to work with. Otherwise it's too thick and too rich, but it's such a nice color, amazing. I need to be very careful. I'll start from the middle because it's the smallest parts and to avoid smudging. And I will rotate my paper around as I go see if that is okay. I've changed the angle of it so you can actually appreciate that beautiful shade of the color and the shininess as it's drying. It's just amazing. I'll go all the way around, just in this part of the middle. I will finish this round and then we're going to adjust that fell. The silver outline here really helped the paint not to peel or whatever. And I caught a little bit of silver at one point, but it immediately moved away from it because of the texture that worked out really well. I'm going to do the second round with a bit more water in the paint. Okay, we'll see how that dries and then I'll decide whether to add the circular arcs which we initially included in the design. I think I will, but I'm not sure whether I want to color them. I'll just wait and see how it dries first, this dry soil beautifully. That purple color is one of my favorites. I can't get enough of purple. It's really nice. I do want to add just that detail of that slightly roundness to give you that extra curve and an extra layer. In fact, there was another layer here. I will do these and see how it looks. I don't think I will make them purple though because they'll be too many purples next to each other. All I'm going to do is just the arc, think they start here just in between each outer petal. I feel that if you were doing this on white paper or a lighter background paper, you would probably want to add an alternating color or more colors. But on the black, this looks so good and sufficient, it doesn't need any more. Now I'm going to just measure this radius here, the smallest one. And just, yeah, I'm going to add another small layer of in here. It's easy. Now, once you see where the points are, then even without the grid, it's fairly easy to add detail because it's quite a pointed design. Otherwise, I'd like to give back some of that roundness. The first design was quite a lot more wider. I also really like it when my artwork is on square paper compared to rectangular. I'm going to use a craft knife to just cut off these two parts and make that in a square. And then it could look really nice as a card can be framed. And I think that will look better in a square frame. Okay, this is it. The final design is done. It's so beautiful. And Chemie, I think it's really elegant. It looks fantastic. If you cut into square or anything like that, it's a good idea to keep these. And then you can test lots of different colors on different kinds of paper. I'm pretty sure this color will look fairly different on white paper or card or something different. Also, I put quite a bit of water you could try, if you didn't mix it at all, it would be a lot thicker, but I just think it's just perfect. I'm happy with that. Quite a different look from the first one. And that's the beauty of having two related but different designs. 10. Thank You!: Thank you so much for choosing to join my geometric class again, I really hope you're happy with what you created. The beautiful geometric flowers are bound to make someone really happy or display in your own home to enjoy looking at. Please do share anything you create. And if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me in the discussion boards. The more projects we see, the more inspired we all get by each other. Thank you so much again and see you in the next course.