Springboards and tangents--the most brain tickling thing to do.
This is the sketch or doodle that started a train of thought.
Vertical lines at random placement across the form, then doing the same with horizontal lines, connecting a diagonal line at the intersections--simple as that.
Regimentation is created with the vertical and the horizontal, but the irregularity of placement creates interest.
The introduction of the diagonal creates the feeling of movement. However, if I were to draw diagonals in the opposite direction, the whole thing would become static.
Could be the beginning of a painting, fabric, metalwork. A broach, a wall piece. - think steel plate with gold pins and lacing of silver wire with one solid gold square placed three-fourths of the way up and off-center.
The design holds up. Theme and variation.
One way to know if a design has integrity is to hold it up and look at it from all four directions--vertical, horizontal, rotate it all the way around. If it looks good no matter which way it is turned, it's good.
What followed in the doodle process was not jewelry, but thoughts about a series of square, rounded-edged plates.
(The first has a note to do wax resist dots on the dark ground.)
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