Horizontal Color Stripe Experiment #3

For experiment #3, I chose a photo with muted winter colors.

For this one, my first step was to add guidelines, just to see if I find them helpful.

They do help me visualize the width of the stripes as a whole pattern, which I like. I followed the same procedure for filling them with color as I did with my first experiment.

One thing I've discovered is that if I want to get really fussy about which color I choose with the color picker, I can enlarge the image 800 times. Then I can select from the individual pixels of color. 

This was helpful because I want to approximate the shades of the color bands my eye sees in the photo. This was quicker than making multiple random guesses with the color picker.

Here's what I ended up with

To do something different. I copied it and flipped the copy vertically. Then I put the two together.

I would like that one as a throw rug. 

Here it is with eight of these together pasted together to make simple horizontal stripes.

It kind of reminds me of a button-down shirt Dan used to have. 

So that's a simple way to take an irregular stripe pattern and give it a sense of symmetry.

Horizontal Color Stripe Experiment #3 

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