Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques
Chromatic circle
A course by Gimena Romero , Textile Artist
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 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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