When we were making our basic shapes, we used the Auto-Smooth tool to round off our leaf. Set the stroke black or gray, and the fill white. That will give us nodes to use to manipulate our shape. Using that tool, make a kind of teardrop shape, clicking with your mouse at least 10 or 12 times. Open a page in Inkscape and choose your Bezier tool. (Wow! I don't want to have to place all those little circles by hand!) Don't worry, we'll use a different method. Then we will 'pretty it up' with the small patterns we made last month. We will start drawing the teardrop using the Bezier tool.

Last month we made several small patterns to use in a project, and we will use some of them now to make our paisley. How can we make one of these? We can use Inkscape. As you can see, this is basically a curved teardrop pattern with a lot of extra patterns inside it to make it fancier. I've found it on everything from clothing to tablecloths and from tablet and phone covers to tattoos. This sort of pattern seems to be making a comeback. Go to Google, search for paisley, and you can find tons of patterns! One of my high school friends, very talented artistically, painted her yellow car with hundreds of paisley patterns on our last school day before graduation. I grew up in the 1960's, and sometimes we wore some pretty wild stuff. Inkscape Tutorial: Create A Paisley Pattern, Part One

Smooth drawing inkscape