Hydrangea Girl
Watercolour, ink, edited with Illustrator and Photoshop.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License
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ellejayerose
adore the idea of paisley for hair! beautiful concept and draftsmanship…
Karin Taylor
so very beautiful, exquisite!
purelydecorative
Stunning Natalie! Just love it.
MuscularTeeth
im blown away.
bahgoesthesheep
is is amazing
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Nina SMART
Beautiful work!
itsallgoodamanda
Very nice art girlfriend cheers
designlover
amazing work i just love it,r u a hair illustrator? if u could tell me what was ur idea behind this illustration?why paisely?have u done series of illustrations on the same theme?
Natalie Perkins replied
Yes, I work as an illustrator :)
This was an experimental series, and I just wanted to play around with the form of the paisleys taking form as another thing – ie: hair. A lot of my illustrations are concerned with femininity, but I use paisley because I have Scottish ancestry. As an Australian though, I feel disconnected from my ancestry so I find myself borrowing from other cultures a lot – and in the case of the paisley, it is borrowed from Persia.
designlover
wow..so interesting,being an asian i am very much familiar with paiselys as paiselys are the strong design element especially in textiles of persia and india..but for me those designs are so typical i really love the way u have used paisleys in ur designs..
designlover
i am student of textile design final year and i have taken hair illustations as my thesis topic initially i wanted to do somthing on feminity ,hair is a strong feminish element so i thought i should make my designs on hair,now i am facing few problems that when and why hair illustrations started,illustrators make them just to make beautiful designs?i am sharing my problems with you because u have worked on similar theme and i guess you can guide me in a better way..do u think such designs can be used on fabric printing,have you ever thougt that for your designs if no then why not?i’ll be really thankful if u can guide me :)
Natalie Perkins replied
There are a few illustrators who use hair much better than I do! Hannah Stouffer, Shawn Kuruneru, Eveline Tarunadjaja, Stella Im Hultberg etc
Of course hair can be used as a textile design, it’s how you execute it that will prove how beautiful the design is!