Needle Felting: Paint Portraits with Wool
Needle Felt the Final Sections
A course by Dani Ives , Artist, Educator, and Author
About the video: Needle Felt the Final Sections
Overview
“You are almost done! Here you'll complete the fox portrait by finishing the fur along the sides of the face and on the neck. ”
In this video lesson Dani Ives addresses the topic: Needle Felt the Final Sections, 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 Final Sections Now I'll show you how to finish the final sections. To finish the fox, I'll do the outside red color fur first and then finish with the white neck fur afterwards. To get the lighter color of red that I want over here, I'm going to use caramel and terracotta. I still want it to have a little bit of a red tint. I want it to be a lighter value so that it appears a little more airy and a little softer than the fur on the face. I'm going to hand blend these two colors. I'll check the color against what I have and I like that. I'll start filling in this outer sectio...”
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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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