The Tessellated Triangle Task

In honor of our fabulous Valentine's day, I decided to create a composition with the tessellated triangle shapes in the shape of a flower.

Using two different types of cardstock (basically one purple pearlescent sheet and one printed sheet), I created a tessellated flower shape with the printed piece at the center and the purple pearlescent shapes functioning as the flower petals, as per the instructions given on the UMA design class blog. I initially pasted the pieces onto a piece of 11"x14" paper, but found that my composition hung off the page slightly. Once the glue dried, I corrected this by cutting around the edges of the paper and pasted the composition onto a new piece of paper.

I chose the jagged edges to function as the hinge where the petals were attached to the center. This allowed the rounded flower-shaped edges to smooth out the outer edges of the composition (since flower petals are generally smooth).