Needle Felting: Paint Portraits with Wool
Needle Felt the Ears and Forehead 2
A course by Dani Ives , Artist, Educator, and Author
About the video: Needle Felt the Ears and Forehead 2
Overview
“I'll show you how to use the straight-line technique to create the long fur texture inside the ears as well as on the forehead. ”
In this video lesson Dani Ives addresses the topic: Needle Felt the Ears and Forehead 2, 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 Ears and Forehead Now, I’ll show you my process for the forehead. I’ll work in two distinct sections for this. I'll focus on the middle of the forehead and the part above the eye. I’ll go ahead and do a large base color here of Cinnamon and Log Cabin mixed together. I used the same mixture around the eyes, so we'll bring those colors up into the forehead. I'll hand blend these. That looks good. I'll set this on top to make sure that I like that blend and see about how much wool I'll need. I'll start filling in this middle section. Because it's a large area, I'll use two need...”
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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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