Needle Embroidery: Create a Natural Composition
Find inspiration
A course by Zélia Smith , Textile Artist
About the video: Find inspiration
Overview
“Let's get into the thick of it ! In this lesson, we will choose the elements that will become the patterns of your composition. For this, you will glean images from resource sites such as Pinterest. You will also take the time to nourish your graphic, technical and creative universe by discovering different artists who inspire me on a daily basis.”
In this video lesson Zélia Smith addresses the topic: Find inspiration, which is part of the Domestika online course: Needle Embroidery: Create a Natural Composition. Create a delicate plant pattern full of texture and originality with traditional embroidery techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Find inspiration After you have seen all the material you are going to need to make your composition, I will show you how to collect different references to establish my moodboard. Before having all the digital tools that I have at my disposal today, like a computer, a digital tablet, applications such as Pinterest, I was looking for my references in books or images that I gleaned: magazine clippings, salvaged postcards or simply images that I like. In today's lesson, we will see how to make a moodboard around the embroidered composition that we are going to do. The theme chosen for this le...”
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Course summary for: Needle Embroidery: Create a Natural Composition
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Category
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Areas
Color Theory, Embroidery, Textile Design, Traditional illustration
Zélia Smith
A course by Zélia Smith
Since she was a little girl, Zélia Smith has been drawn to those pieces of embroidered fabric found at the bottom of a box at a garage sale. It was therefore quite natural that she would go on to study applied arts related to the fashion and textile trades. Her fascination with the stage led her to become a costume designer for national theaters and opera houses.
Despite her academic training, she likes to steer away from perfection to create exactly what she imagines in her mind's eye. In 2015, she launched an Instagram account dedicated to her small embroidered creations and quickly achieved great success. She then opened her own workshop and published a book on hand embroidery: Jungle Broderie, published by Marabout/Hachette.
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