This is the starting point: an irregular pentagon, obtained from a square
by cutting off a corner.
A simple tessellation of a plane surface is the following:
A more complex, and more nice, tessellation, which alterns octagons and
"hour-glasses"... is the following:
And now, let's color it!!!
Starting with a pentagon coloured like the following one
... we can obtain a nice tessellatin in the Islamic "Alhambra" style !!!