Needle Embroidery: Create a Natural Composition
Define your color palette
A course by Zélia Smith , Textile Artist
About the video: Define your color palette
Overview
“The composition being well advanced, we still have to select our range of colors! Important step to make a coherent piece that looks like you, we will see how to do it.”
In this video lesson Zélia Smith addresses the topic: Define your color palette, 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
“Define your color palette Now we will see how to create your color range to bring your composition to life. I'm going back to the main reference of my moodboard which is the painting by Henri Douanier Rousseau. Here you see a lot of threads that I have selected which are part of the embroidery floss cotton range, DMC. What is advantageous with the DMC color range, is that it has a wide choice of colors. You can thus be very precise in your composition. Here, I have come to select all the colors that are present in the table I have in front of me. Do you remember the composition I made in th...”
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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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