Seeing Pattern

Lily Sutton ⋅ 3rd November 2022

Lily Sutton

Repeated chain pattern using watercolour. I have experimented with different shades throughout the pattern to create a unique drawing.

Digital drawing of a strawberry repeated and created into a pattern. Whilst creating this drawing I experimented by turning the pictures upside down to create a unique pattern. It was interesting to see how the drawing looked similar to a flower when upside down. For the background I chose to add blue so that the strawberry pattern would stand out. Lastly I added abstract white lines to create a print effect.

Watercolour of a rose captured from the Alexander Mcqueen exhibiton however I have focused on the intricate detail of the inside of the flower and the different lines of the petals. Lines of the drawing have been repeated in different shades of pink to create a 3D effect.

I have used black pen to draw a detailed picture of small intricate flowers and used water on top of the drawing so that the ink runs. I have then used procreate to repeat the drawing to create a pattern and used a pastel yellow as the background so that the pattern stands out as the light yellow contrasts to the dark pattern.

Line drawing of flowers inspired by a bouquet of colourful flowers from home. I have used different colour promarkers to create the drawing. Additionally I used tracing paper and black pen to repeat the drawing and displayed the separate drawings in a collage style.

Drawing of a ’Calathea plant’ captured from my room. I have used felt pens and black fine liner to focus on the leaves. For the pattern in the background I used watercolour to create a soft, pastel base and took inspiration from the abstract lines in the leaves and repeated this detail on top of the watercolour.

Repeated line drawing to create a pattern of a flower captured from my garden using a pink felt pen.

Close up drawing of a raspberry using charcoal pencil. I have focused on the texture of the fruit to create an interesting, detailed pattern.

Abstract watercolour painting inspired by the colours of a bouquet of flowers.

Pro markers used to create a pattern inspired by weaved ribbon.

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Nefertiti Cheung
5th November 2022 @ 12:30 am

To summarise, the two areas of strength I can see from your work are collages and layering. I can definitely see how a lot of these designs can be transformed into patterns through textiles. I like your strawberry pattern and I am interested in what medium you have used to create these prints. After the Photoshop session, it would be useful to go back on some of these can create different variations of the size of strawberries or different-coloured versions. I like how you used tonal matte magenta colours with what appear to be watercolour paint in the third picture. Images 1 and 3 can work well with heat-soluble backing if you were to transform them into embroidery per se, and I like how they can work well as a base for a lot of your drawings. As mentioned, I see that you have a good sense of how you want to arrange the collage with the rose-like patterns from image 5. I like your colour scheme of primary colours and green, and I like how some of these patterns look like sketches of stitches. I am intrigued to know how you could combine these patterns you’ve created.
If I were to make any suggestions in areas, adding a few descriptions on some of the images would be helpful. I think you could also try working with other types of mediums. I would love to see another colour palette; maybe you can explore more ideas on that with Studio Pantone.

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