Needle Felting: Paint Portraits with Wool
Basic Techniques: Sharp, Clean Edges
A course by Dani Ives , Artist, Educator, and Author
About the video: Basic Techniques: Sharp, Clean Edges
Overview
“Let's get to it! I’ll teach you how to keep the edges of your felted shapes sharp and how to clean up any fuzzy lines. This is a great technique to use on objects that you want to have a defined or hard edge. ”
In this video lesson Dani Ives addresses the topic: Basic Techniques: Sharp, Clean Edges, which is part of the Domestika online course: Needle Felting: Paint Portraits with Wool. Create highly detailed animal portraits that capture the story of your subject using needle felting techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to make sharp, clean edges. Learning how to make sharp edges will keep your work clean looking neat. and we'll help your details To practice this technique you'll need to start with a little bit of wool on your fabric. So grab some wool, set it down, and let's just make a basic shape. I'm going to go for a square. So make sure that your fibers are filtering down, that you're getting rid of any of those lumps or bumps that you might see. And that gives us a good starting point to practice these clean edges. I'm adding more will to even out my edge. N...”
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Course summary for: Needle Felting: Paint Portraits with Wool
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Arts & Crafts, Fiber Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Needle Felting, Textile Design
Dani Ives
A course by Dani Ives
Dani Ives is an American fiber artist, educator and author. The heart of her work comes from her love for animals and nature. At university, she pursued a degree in biology, which led her to become an animal and environmental conservation educator. After being introduced to needle felting by a conservation colleague in 2010, she fell in love with the craft and started sharing her artwork online. She soon grew a huge online following, with over 116K followers on Instagram, and by 2015, she dedicated herself full-time to needle felting.
In 2019, she published her first book, Painting with Wool: Sixteen Artful Projects to Needle Felt. Her artwork has been featured in exhibitions throughout the United States, and at a solo exhibition in the Historic Arkansas Museum. In addition to her online shop and commissioned work, she also teaches workshops on needle felting.
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