More work on michauxia

On Monday and Tuesday I continued to work on the michauxia pattern.  First I made multiple photocopies of the two images I'd created so I could see the problems in alignment and spacing.  That led to me making a few shifts and changes.  I also tried ghosting in some of the trellis pattern's elements to get a sense of the relationship between the two patterns and see what I thought of the relative scale:

Then I began to draw the background "trellis" pattern full size.  It's taking a long time to do and frankly is a pretty boring process.  This is where I left is at the end of the day yesterday:

After finishing the page, the next task will be to draw the michauxia pattern on top of it, then erase the elements of the trellis that the michauxia overlap.  After that, I might ink it.  I still haven't decided how I might bring color into the work.

Today I'm taking a break from the michauxia.  There are some gorgeous lilies in full bloom in my roof garden right now so I decided to sketch some of those this morning.  I think I've learned my lesson that if I'm trying to do a pattern that repeats, follow the rules for making a repeat right from the start - don't start with a drawing that covers a complete page and then imagine you can tweak it from there!