Needle Felting: Paint Portraits with Wool
Sketching and Transferring Your Image to the Fabric
A course by Dani Ives , Artist, Educator, and Author
About the video: Sketching and Transferring Your Image to the Fabric
Overview
“First, I’ll talk about how to get the correct size sketch or photo for your finished portrait by using the embroidery hoop shape and size as a guide. I’ll then show you how to transfer your sketch or photo lines onto the background fabric and how to troubleshoot common problems.”
In this video lesson Dani Ives addresses the topic: Sketching and Transferring Your Image to the Fabric, 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
“Sketching and Transferring Your Image to Fabric Now you've learned basic needle felting techniques, in this lesson, I'll show my process for sketching the final project and how to transfer the image to the fabric. I'll be using these fox images for reference for my sketch. If you don't have your own reference photos, you can visit royalty-free websites and pull images from those, which is what I did for the final project sketch references. Since the final project will be inside an embroidery hoop, I'd like to use the hoop to compose my sketch. To do that, I separate the rinks and I use the ...”
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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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