Freehand Needle Painting: Embroider the Beauty of Wildlife
The Head 1
A course by Chloe Giordano , Embroidery Artist
About the video: The Head 1
Overview
“In this lesson we will begin to embroider our animal.”
In this video lesson Chloe Giordano addresses the topic: The Head 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Freehand Needle Painting: Embroider the Beauty of Wildlife. Learn to create realistic, nature-inspired embroidery using freehand, needle painting techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson you're going to start your embroidery and we will begin with the head. I'm going to throw you in at the deep end and start with the most difficult section, This is so your stitches flow in the right direction, like real fur would. So you start at the nose and then flow through all the rest of the body. It's also quite difficult to add a head to a pre-existing body. If it's even slightly off, it can froth the whole embroidery. And it's quite soul destroying to spend hours working on one embroidery and then ruin it right at the last moment. This way, if you do make a mistake in...”
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Course summary for: Freehand Needle Painting: Embroider the Beauty of Wildlife
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Embroidery, Textile Design, Traditional illustration
Chloe Giordano
A course by Chloe Giordano
Chloe Giordano is a UK-based embroidery artist who specializes in creating artwork inspired by the natural world. Her early years growing up in the countryside inspired her love of nature but it was during her time at university that her artistic journey began. Whilst studying illustration, Chloe discovered a fascination with stitching that went on to shape her career and eventually developed her freehand needle painting technique which combined all three of her passions; nature, painting, and embroidery.
Chloe has embroidered several book cover designs, illustrated children’s books for publishers including Penguin and Bloomsbury, and has also published a book of her own about her work. Her embroidery has even been sold at Liberty in London.
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