TESSELLATION

The above tessellation is the first one that I made in Photoshop. It's my personal favorite, as it has a more radial pattern, and there is a greater sense of circular movement. It is also simpler than the other tessellation (below), which was the second image that I created. In the second tessellation, I think that my grid is too visible, which may be due to size of each repeated piece. 

Were I to do a similar recreation, I think I would also attempt to have the edges of each piece better mimic the curved lines within, instead of the jagged line which I used. I also feel like I should have experimented more with color. (These two images make it pretty clear what my favorite color is at the moment.)

To create these tessellations, I found photos of Romanesque architecture online, cropped them down, and distorted them until they were largely unrecognizable. Then, for my first tessellation, I placed an image in one quadrant of the canvas, and rotated it 90 degrees clockwise for each quadrant in a clockwise order. With the second tessellation, I erased parts of the photos and merged six of them into one tile. I then made a jagged cut along one vertical edge, and moved it over to its parallel edge, and then repeated this with the horizontal edges. After I completed this step, I used InDesign to place the pieces so that they fit together.

Overall, I enjoyed this project, because I am very familiar with Photoshop, and found that I could experiment with it more simply because I do have a solid background with the program. This knowledge especially came in handy while working with numerous layers.