Watercolor Tessellations are inspired by personal experience and artist M.C. Escher. We learned about mementoes, icons, adaptation, radial symmetry, and tessellations in this unit. Each student designed an icon to represent a personal memento of a person, place, or event. Students carved their icon into a hexagonal block print and tessellated their stamped images. The final stage of this learning segment used color to emphasize the meaning of each work. Watercolor paint was used in an intentional manner to connect meaning with the final image.
