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Artist Tutorials
I’m very influenced by textiles and textile design, costume illustration, fashion illustration and practices that have to do with body in very basic terms.
Natalya Hughes
Silhouette
1. Watch Natalya discuss silhouette, bodies and form.
Consider Natalya’s work Looking Cute 2013 and Taiso Yoshitoshi’s August: Somezono watching the moon over Shinagawa Harbor (from ‘Pride of Tokyo’s Twelve Months’ series) 1880 and reflect on the ways that pattern can be used to fill silhouette and suggest form from the Artist Gallery.
2. Download and print one of the silhouette stencils. Cut out the shape and transfer onto card or board (for a stronger stencil).
3. Lightly trace the shape of the silhouette and extend the composition by adding more shapes.
4. Fill in the spaces within and around your composition with a variety of patterns.
Draw inspiration for patterns from the Victoria & Albert Museum Pattern Collections.
5. Reflect on how pattern can be used to blur the line between figure and ground.
Pattern-Making
1. Listen to Natalya discuss the pattern-making side of her practice.
Look closely at the repeated motifs in Olive Ashworth’s Textile length: Coral garden c.1956 and Elizabeth Pulie’s Thirty-three (from untitled series) 1991 and the use of pattern in This painting is all I know, I’ve got nothing else to show by Diena Georgetti in the Artist’s Gallery.
2. Download and print the motif stencils. Cut out the shapes and transfer onto card or board for a stronger stencils (alternatively, you can use a ruler, set-square and/or compass to create your pattern from scratch).
3. Select one motif and trace the shape. Repeat the shape across the page to create your own unique pattern.
Draw inspiration for patterns from the Victoria & Albert Museum Pattern Collections.
4. Add marks into your pattern to create form, texture and movement.
5. Consider how you could use your pattern as part of a larger body of work.