Needle Felting: Paint Portraits with Wool
Basic Techniques: Color Blending
A course by Dani Ives , Artist, Educator, and Author
About the video: Basic Techniques: Color Blending
Overview
“You are almost done with the basics but I´ll show you one last trick. Here you'll learn how to blend wool colors and create soft gradients. I'll show you how to expand your color palette by creating color blends with different proportions of two (or more) colors. ”
In this video lesson Dani Ives addresses the topic: Basic Techniques: Color Blending, 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
“Basic Techniques: Color Blending Now I'll show you how to blend wool colors and create soft gradients. I'll use these three wool colors to create a blend that goes from red to orange to yellow. When I'm making portraits, I spend a lot of time color blending. This is a good skill to have. I'll first make some transition colors, so I'll blend red and orange and then orange and yellow. To do that, I'll grab a bit of orange and a bit of red. I'll stack them on top of each other and create a sandwich. With both colors in each hand, gently pull them apart, so that both colors end up in each hand....”
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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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