Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques
Chromatic circle
A course by Gimena Romero , Artist and Researcher
About the video: Chromatic circle
Overview
“Now we will review the classic color theory, we will talk about primary, secondary, tertiary, complementary colors and how you can help them to create a pictorial embroidery.”
In this video lesson Gimena Romero addresses the topic: Chromatic circle, which is part of the Domestika online course: Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques. Learn to use texture and color to bring your embroidery to life.
Partial transcription of the video
“CHROMATIC CIRCLE Here we will see a little bit of basic color theory, which can also be applied to selecting a good color range for your embroidery. This is the color wheel that we embroidered for this purpose. You have the pattern with the specific color guide so you can reproduce it with the stitch we just saw, and you'll have something similar to this. This can serve as a reference for other future work, and also if you forget which ones are complementary, what an analog of green or red would look like, you can return to this exercise. The key is that the threads we use to embroider this...”
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Course summary for: Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques
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Category
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Areas
Embroidery, Textile Design, Traditional illustration
Gimena Romero
A course by Gimena Romero
Gimena Romero is an artist and writer based between Mexico City and Barcelona. She trained in various schools in Mexico, Spain, and France and has received multiple awards and mentions internationally.
Her work has been displayed in various exhibitions in countries like Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, France, Portugal, Ukraine, and Spain. She has several publications under her belt in the areas of narrative, poetry, and textile research with Thule Ediciones and Editorial Gustavo Gili. Her book Hebra de Agua was awarded Book of the Year at the 2016 Teixim la Ciutat festival in Catalonia.
She has also conducted research into embroidery and the body with Lausín embroidery at the UNAM Faculty of Arts and Design in Mexico. She loves life, dogs, and biscuits.
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