Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques
Color levels and stitch sense I - Part 1
A course by Gimena Romero , Artist and Researcher
About the video: Color levels and stitch sense I - Part 1
Overview
“We will see how to make mixes and jumps, I will explain what they are and how the color levels of the pattern are used. Here you can support yourself from the color guide I have prepared for you (the fluorescent one). Remember that these are not the real tonalities of the threads, it has contrasting colors so you can perfectly differentiate the areas defined for each color. ”
In this video lesson Gimena Romero addresses the topic: Color levels and stitch sense I - Part 1, 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
“COLOR LEVELS AND STITCH SENSE I OK, let's start working on our color separation. I'll start with the beak because it's the simplest part, but don't relax. This is my color separation pattern. Remember? It was the one we transferred. We transferred it onto a separate sheet so as not to damage this original, and this way we can always go back to it to identify the lines, which I'm going to talk about later, to see how we will fill our bird with color and how far each color goes. Don't worry if those color separations are too alternative. I'm going to help you identify the lines that you need ...”
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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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