While my opinions of society seemingly leaving out an important family holiday are no secret, I'll not rant on that at this time. Instead I wanted to step back to a project I never had to do (ahh Nostalgia). I never had to do this because I didn't take the classes that assigned it. The assignment was to take two posters or photographs or images and kind of mesh them together in long alternating strips. Sometimes the effect was ho hum, but other times if two images were chosen just right then the effect was kind of 'wow'.
Some images came out recently of the sun while it experienced that large solar flare. Blue and Green images appeared on the internet and I thought that it would be fun to mesh those two images together somehow. While I didn't get around to it, I did a lot of sketches on how I wanted them to mesh. I finally decided that I wanted a basket weave look of the two images such that strips that were horizontal came from one image while strips that were vertical came from the other.
While I was sketching this out I was thinking on other meshing that was possible. One thing that I noticed once while putting jigsaw puzzles together was that two puzzles from the same company by the same artist used the same die cut. What this means is that on two completely different images I could interchange pieces to create an interesting effect. I could alternate strips, checkerboard the puzzle pieces or do half and half.
One final mesh is more traditional and actually quite common. That is wreath making. Taking base components and unfamiliar components and meshing them together around a wreath to make it unique and personal. There are materials that are made to be used in wreath making such as little ornament arrangements on a wire that wrap around the frame work of the wreath. There are materials that are generic that are commonly used such as ribbons and bows. But then there are the other little craft items that usually serve other purposes such as small stuffed animals, pictures, picture frames, small ceramics, tiny dollhouse items that can also be used to make a wreath more of a personal gift than something you can pick up already completed in a different section of the craft store.
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