Half drop?

Now I have done the most brain draining task (creating what I thought was an ogee pattern was really strenuous!) and have the motif I want to work with, I am playing around with how the pattern should be laid out. I thought initially the motif would be more obvious as to having 2 curvy shapes with in it, but when I played around with using the half drop method, I found it quite successful.

Half Drop ( before moving each motif to avoid the bird formation)

This would have been side by side, not sure why I didn't take a screen shot of it as I did this one, as I took screen shots of everything else.

 I really like the movement between the motifs, it seams to have a more flowing nature. Using the guidelines I played around with the position of each row, and I am finally able to select an area to define a pattern and test in a fill.

This is me trying to blend the watercolour brush background, wasn't the best result.