Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques
Course final project
A course by Gimena Romero , Textile Artist
About the final project for: Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques
Painting with yarn: textile illustration techniques
“It does not matter that you have never embroidered, or that you do not even know how to thread the thread on the needle, yet I am sure that by this point, you already have the whole theory to perform it perfectly. Besides that you can see how I do it over and over again, that's one of the great advantages of having video lessons;) Still, I know that some existential and embroidery doubts may arise along the way; so I invite you to clear them in each of the forums that you can find in the Tasks section of each unit, in which I will also be aware. You just have to click on the corresponding Practice for each topic that complicates you and very surely you will find some answers. I am very excited, I want to see all your finished projects and how a part of your being has been impregnated in each one of them. On the other hand, if in addition to the Domestika community, you want to share your creation with the whole world, you can upload photos of your work to Instagram with the hashtag #GimenaRomeroDomestika. I would love to see the whole process! Thank you very much for taking this course and I hope to see you soon learning another embroidery technique. See you soon! ”
Partial transcription of the video
“FINAL PROJECT Now I am going to summarize what we did in the course. We started by looking at the materials, and we saw some examples of the Painting With Thread technique. After this we saw the technique that I use to transfer drawings onto fabric, and we prepared our embroidery hoop. Then we saw how color works in embroidery, we reviewed some harmonic color ranges, dissonant color ranges, and we also saw how to prepare your own color palette from an image that you like. Next, we saw how to do the satin stitch so that we could use it later in our color wheel. In the next lesson, with our f...”
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Course summary for: Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques
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Areas
Embroidery, Textile Design, Traditional illustration
Gimena Romero
A course by Gimena Romero
Gimena Romero was born in Mexico City in 1985 and lives between her hometown and Barcelona. She graduated in visual and plastic arts from the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving, 'La Esmeralda' of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), and attended the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Lyon (France).
She has won several international awards. She began her career in the world of haute couture embroidery in Lesage (Paris) and in 2014 she began working as a guild apprentice of gold thread embroidery in Seville. Her work has been exhibited in locations around the world.
She has also collaborated on published works of fiction, poetry, and textile research with Thule Ediciones and Editorial Gustavo Gili. Her book 'Hebra de Agua' was selected as Book of the Year in 2016 at the 'Teixim la Ciutat' Festival held in Sant Cugat in Catalonia (Spain).
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