Indian Inspired Designs

This week in my art class we have started making linoleum stamps. The first part of the project is to create a design to go on the stamp and since my teacher had recently visited India, she requested that the design reflect the Indian culture. The cultural aspect was very easy for me to portray in my sketches for the design. I am not sure which design I am going to use for the stamp yet, but I will have to choose next week before drawing the design onto the linoleum block. I have the pencil sketches of the two designs below. I traced some of the figures in sharpie to make it easier for me to work around them when creating the abstract patterns in the background.