Needle Painting for Beginners
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Course overview
- Provider
- Domestika
- Course type
- Paid course
- Level
- Beginner
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Lessons
- 20 lessons
- Certificate
- Available on completion
- Course author
- Valentina Castillo
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The power of self-management and the idea of being able to materialize all your imaginative ideas into personalized and handmade pieces, is what leads many artists to start in the craft or DIY sector. The embroidery and graphic designer Valentina Castillo, since she was a child, has been passionate about being able to create with her own hands, draw, take pictures... Until she found embroidery, which is a technique in which she can gather all the disciplines she loves. Her specialty is the needle painting , a technique with which she is able to portray pets - be they dogs, cats, hedgehogs ... - and pays homage to them.
In this course, Valentina will teach you how to portray animals through embroidery as a painting ( needle painting ). You will learn from scratch to use stitches to apply light and shadow, generate textures and choose your color palette. In this way you can portray your own animal or pet to use it as a memento, or as an ornament.
Description
You will meet Valentina, she will tell you about her beginnings in embroidery and how her style is linked to graphic design and her interest in pets. Then, she will share her main influences.
Valentina will explain the materials needed to embroider your pet portrait: types of thread, frame, fabric, scissors ... Then, you will see how to choose the right photograph to embroider, as it will be your guide and color source.
You will learn to draw your pet's portrait - whether with or without a pattern - by looking at two ways of doing it: capturing the colors of your photograph manually or digitally, with Adobe Illustrator. Next, you will transfer your pattern onto the fabric.
Translate your chosen colors to the mouliné embroidery threads, seeing tips about the number of colors indicated. Then, you will plan the colors in your pattern to better visualize the portrait.
Learn to tighten the frame and work step by step, the different areas of the portrait. You will start by outlining some features, and then move on to the eyes that will emphasize its personality; then the nose, where you will learn to work the volume.
You will start embroidering the fur, essential to give texture and realism. You will see how to capture each color in layers, making the snout, the forehead, cheeks and ears. Then you will add the whiskers as the last step of embroidery, to finally close and seal your frame with your finished work.
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