A canvas with a difference

I've always thought of my sketches as patterns on paper. So it was an interesting idea my brother and then a colleague came up with recently. Design a tattoo for them. "I want it around the 'Om' symbol - and not girlie, please", was the brief my brother gave. I have not got down to designing that one as yet, but recently my colleague made the same request with a different brief.


She has been looking for a henna-like pattern to go on her wrist, to remind her of Teddy. Her dog of 14 yrs., Teddy is unwell - and it's likely that he won't be here much longer. She asked for designs that possibly incorporated his name.

Here is the first set of drafts - more to come on this, but for the first time, I made my sketches in pencil so I could erase any errors - did not want those to be etched for perpetuity!

See if you can spot Teddy's name between the square and triangles on both sides!

This is large, but otherwise, I like:

My 4 yr. old liked this one the best:

That's the last one...