Needle Felting: Paint Portraits with Wool
Needle Felt the Nose and Mouth
A course by Dani Ives , Artist, Educator, and Author
About the video: Needle Felt the Nose and Mouth
Overview
“Here you'll needle felt the nose, mouth, and snout of the fox. I’ll show you my process for creating noses while keeping the shapes correct. I’ll also demonstrate how to add color to make it look shiny. ”
In this video lesson Dani Ives addresses the topic: Needle Felt the Nose and Mouth, 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
“Needle Felt the Nose and Mouth Once the eyes are finished, I'll show you my process for needle felting the nose and the mouth. Since the fox has a dark nose, I'll fill the whole area with black, then add some highlights to contour it and make it nice and shiny. Like with the iris before, I'll grab a bit of black wool, place it in this nose area to determine how much I'll need, and start poking it in. I'll follow the top outline of the nose and fill in toward the bottom. When I'm filling in a shape, this is the natural process. I like to fill in along the outline first, then add wool toward ...”
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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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