Many Petunias

Many Petunias, a photo by randubnick on Flickr.

Yesterday I used Painter software to "capture" a new pattern. I used a photo that I took in early July of some interesting petunias that I saw in Lexington, MA. (See yesterday's post for a closer look.) After I created the pattern, I wanted to try it out, so I opened a new file and used the paint bucket tool to fill the image with the petunia pattern. I fiddled with the controls until I had the size and offset that I wanted, and then I cropped it to get the image that you see here. The next step is to use the new pattern with a pattern pen. To be continued. . . .