Inside out
Today for my folding experiment, I chose cut pleats. The most exciting part of cut pleats is that the back of the paper moves to the front when folded. So today, I covered a sheet of paper with charcoal and…
Category Design
Graphic and pattern design
Origami With Charcoal
I read a list of origami rules once that had, “Wash your hands,” as the first rule. So I decided to fold with charcoal on my hands.
Composition-004
The collage was created from patterned papers that were printed on gelli plates with high flow acrylic ink.
Paper Folding
Crumpling is a technique where the paper is crumpled, unfolded and crumpled again and again. It creates an interesting texture that results from the thousands of folds. What do you think about it?
Origami and Charcoal #002
Folding paper with dirty hands is so much fun. I am sure this is going to be a thing with me. There are several ways that I am considering exploring this process. Notice that the background has smudges. I did…
Doodle Process
Here is a glimpse into the process of creating Post-it-doodle-a-day from 5 February thru 8 May 2016. These doodles were created digitally with an app called ProCreate on an iPad with the Apple Pencil. The process videos are built into…
Pleated Round Box
Pleated box from BYU-Idaho Art Dept on Vimeo. I have Complete Pleats written by Paul Jackson. On page 159 there is a beautiful round pleated box designed by Philip Campbel-Bell. I have tried to make it before and thought I…
Dirty Hands
Dirty Hands from BYU-Idaho Art Dept on Vimeo. I read once on an origami page to always wash your hands. Then this morning as I was considering what to fold it occurred to me that dirty hands might just make…
Module 003
Module 003 | It takes 12 modules to make a sphere. The sphere is very light and is about the size of a softball. The module has 5 arms. I created one arm and then rotated it 72° around a center point…
Module | 002
Module 002 | This is a variation of module 001 with a leaf shape cut out of the center of the module. The image above shows the top view. Module 002 M002 | Vase Bottom Closed | I left the…
Paper Module | 001
Module 001 | I have made paper spheres using square modules, but I wondered what would happen if the modules were rectangular. I was able to make a sphere with a rectangular module as shown in the image above. It takes 30…
Wood Block Painting
Updated version of my modular wood-block-painting in the BYU-Idaho Faculty Art Show in the Spori Gallery.
BYU-Idaho Art Department Faculty Show 2015
The Faculty Art Show opened tonight in the Spori Gallery on the campus of Brigham Young University–Idaho. It was wonderful to see so many people turn out. It was fun to see many good friends and students. This is one…
Skoughtee Texture No.004
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Skoughtee Texture No.003
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Diamond Point Triad
This is my submission for the Brigham Young University-Idaho Art Faculty Show (summer of 2013). 3 Inkjet prints, each print is 24 x 34 inches detail Diamond Point 1 Diamond Point 2 Diamond Point 3
Pattern No.082713
Here is a repeating pattern created in a vector drawing program.
Paper folding 2
I have attempted to fold this pattern several times and today I finally succeeded. This is the fold that is featured on the front of Paul Jackson’s book, Folding Techniques for Designers: From Sheet to Form. It is amazing and…
Paper folding
Folding paper has become a bit of a hobby for me. I found a wonderful book Folding Techniques for Designers: From Sheet to Form. I have considered myself a 2D artist but this book has opened a lot of interesting…
A Birthday Card for my Surgeon
It has been a few years and now everything is OK so I can share this project. Without the gory details I found myself in need of a total colectomy. It isn’t a surgery that I looked forward to but…
SkillShare class
I just finished taking a micro class from Brad Woodard on skillshare.com. I learned a few really cool tricks and had a good time. The project was to illustrate the word quiet or loud. I picked quiet. There was a…
Sunflowers on a warm pink day
Armed with fabric from Spoonflower.com and a bit of desire here is a new tie for a sweet summer day. It would be perfect with lemon aid and a shaded hammock. I have been scared of the sewing machine ever…
Art-i-fact #012613-v001
Much too cold for flowers
Art-i-fact #012313v001
ABCD Fishies?
Checkerish. Is that a word?
I had a great day in class today. It was great to see the students work and see great potential. I have a really great bunch of students this semester. Art-i-fact #011513v001 A pewter checkerish pattern. I will print it…
Art-i-fact #011113v01
Art-i-fact #011113v01
The trees were covered in frost crystals
On my way to work this morning all the trees and grass were covered with white frost crystals. It was beautiful. Art-i-fact #011013v01 The frost crystals on the trees inspired me to try a pattern for todays art-i-fact. There is…
An art-i-fact for the first day of school
Today was the first day of classes so my artifact for the day is my syllabus for the identity design class. Sometimes you just do whatever it takes. Artifact #005 Just in case you are interested it was a good…
Art-i-fact #004
Tidy Messiness. Thank you Mike Laughead for that accurate description of my work. At least I hope it is a good thing to say about my work. Art-i-fact #004
Art-i-fact #003
Today the Art-i-fact is more painterly and maybe a bit clownish. Art-i-fact #003 I once talked to a bow-tie-wearing gentleman that told me that he always wanted to be sure that his bow ties didn’t look “clownish.” Since then I…
Art-i-fact #002
Two days in a row and the second Art-i-fact of the year. It feels good to make images. I have found that my head is filled with ideas, but they are not in a visual form. The only way I…
First post of 2013
Welcome to 2013. Like many of you I have some New Year’s resolutions. One of mine is to create something “art-i-fact” every day. For today I have created a pattern called titled the very imaginative name, Pattern #001-2013. Art-i-fact #001…
Back to School
Back to School | This past month I started taking a class from Camp Pikaland | The Sellable Sketch, taught by Michelle Fifis of Pattern Observer and have discovered a few things that should have been second nature to me…
Grumpy type
I really can’t help it. I was born this way. Please don’t take it personal, the furrowed brow is genetic.
There comes a point
“There comes a point (and it comes very soon sometimes) when, unless he is very firmly convinced that there is something in his idea, it is better to abandon it and start afresh.” Lewis F. Day | pattern designer Pattern…
A Drip at a Time
I have learned a lot from examining the HTML/CSS code from my blogger template and then changing it one parameter at a time. I opened and copied the source code in my browser and pasted it into Dreamweaver. This allowed…
Learning CSS
I have been asked what resources I am using to learn CSS. A Lynda.com membership is the main source and has been very helpful. The process has been really frustrating because there is so much basic CSS knowledge that you…
I am just trying
As you may notice my blog is in various forms of disarray. I am trying to learn how to customize it with css. Please be patient with me. Who knows, it might just be interesting to watch me fumble around.
Good News from Vermont
I received word from Beau Ties Ltd. of Vermont, that one of my bow tie patterns, Costa Mesa, is in the top 10 selling bow ties as well as neck ties. While you are there check out my other patterns,…
Doodle Garden Bow Tie #15
Doodle GardenBow Tie #15 ©2007 Scott E. Franson / Under exclusive license to Beau Ties Ltd of Vermont
Doodle Garden Bow Tie #14
Doodle GardenBow Tie #14 ©2007 Scott E. Franson / Under exclusive license to Beau Ties Ltd of Vermont
Doodle Garden Bow Tie #13
Doodle GardenBow Tie #13 ©2007 Scott E. Franson / Under exclusive license to Beau Ties Ltd of Vermont
Doodle Garden Bow Tie #12
Doodle GardenBow Tie #12 ©2007 Scott E. Franson / Under exclusive license to Beau Ties Ltd of Vermont
Doodle Garden Bow Tie #11
Doodle GardenBow Tie #11 Doodle GardenBow Tie #11b ©2007 Scott E. Franson / Under exclusive license to Beau Ties Ltd of Vermont
Doodle Garden Bow Tie #10
Doodle GardenBow Tie # 10 ©2007 Scott E. Franson / Under exclusive license to Beau Ties Ltd of Vermont
Doodle Garden Bow Tie #9
Doodle GardenBow Tie #9 ©2007 Scott E. Franson / Under exclusive license to Beau Ties Ltd of Vermont
Doodle Garden Bow Tie #8
Doodle GardenBow Tie #8aDoodle GardenBow Tie #8b ©2007 Scott E. Franson / Under exclusive license to Beau Ties Ltd of Vermont
Doodle Garden Bow Tie #7
Doodle GardenBow Tie #7 ©2007 Scott E. Franson / Under exclusive license to Beau Ties Ltd of Vermont
Doodle Garden Bow Tie #6
Doodle Garden Bow Tie #6 ©2007 Scott E. Franson / Under exclusive license to Beau Ties Ltd of Vermont