Dots, stars, stripes, you name the pattern and DaShawn Vickers has drawn it.

The Purvis Primary student decorated hundreds of tiny equilateral triangles and then arranged them to form a larger equilateral triangle, known as a Sierpinski pyramid.

Principal Judith Alexander suggested he take on the task in October 2015 as a way to channel his energy. It kept him busy until last week.

“I never got tired of colouring,” said the 10-year-old. “I just enjoyed doing it.”

The pyramid was unveiled at the Warwick school’s honours assembly on Tuesday

A mini version, made of only 16 triangles, won the People’s Choice Award in the BSoA student competition in April.

“I felt happy,” he said of the gallery honour. “I got a big bag of art stuff and an art book as a prize. I don’t have much art stuff at home.”

Art teacher Krystle Paulino said DaShawn’s initial plan two years ago was to make a pyramid taller than himself. As time went on however, there was an obvious problem.

“I grew,” he said.

Despite that, he returned to school last September determined to keep going with it.

“We had to pull it apart a bit and reglue it a bit,” said Ms Paulino. “We weren’t sure how sturdy it was. It is only made of card stock.”

DaShawn spent all his spare time colouring while she glued it all together.

“I worked on it mostly in the mornings,” he said. He would often pull out a colouring sheet while waiting for his teacher to check his work.

When he was done with his assignments he’d colour some more. Eventually, some of his friends started to complain.

“They wanted to colour too” he said.

By the time the structure was finished, each of the school’s 118 students had coloured at least one of its 1,024 triangles.

“Some of the teachers also helped,” said Ms Paulino. “We had a primary one teacher who liked colouring triangles so much, she asked for more colouring pages after the pyramid was finished.”

Teachers feel the project helped to build DaShawn’s confidence and improve his once mischievous behaviour.

“This year I’ve been good,” he said.

At Tuesday’s honours assembly he was awarded a prize for having top marks in science. His teachers are suggesting he could have an art or engineering career ahead of him.

“We’re hoping to get more children involved in a group project next year,” said DaShawn’s classroom teacher Jennifer Cassidy. “It has definitely made a difference in DaShawn’s life and I think it could help other children as well.”

DaShawn plans to spend this summer playing with all the art supplies he got from the Bermuda Society of Arts.