Escher "Enspirations"

"Sultches & Hipdles"  Colored Pencil on paper

Or we could title it When Sultans, Hippies, Candles and Witches Collide.  We studied Escher's work in the high school this fall.  The first assignment was to create a work of our own using his tessellation methods.  It's great fun to make a pattern by cutting two sides of a spare or polygon then sliding or rotating or reversing then sliding, etc. to the other side.   Lots of sites to give more instructions if you're interested.  I left one pattern blank to show the shape before we filled it in.

The kids have some great ones on the way.  (Unfortunately some of the social butterflies will be coloring their precious fingers to the bone this weekend to meet deadline).