Embroidered Pet Portraits: The Thread Painting Technique
How to Tackle the Portrait
A course by Michelle Staub ⋆ StitchingSabbatical , Hand-Embroidery Artist
Joined August 2021
Joined August 2021
About the video: How to Tackle the Portrait
Overview
“To begin, I will tell you my method for tackling the portrait.”
In this video lesson Michelle Staub ⋆ StitchingSabbatical addresses the topic: How to Tackle the Portrait, which is part of the Domestika online course: Embroidered Pet Portraits: The Thread Painting Technique. Discover how to create realistic portraits that capture the essence and spirit of an animal through creative hand embroidery.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I'll tell you the best way to tackle the portrait. I find it's best to work from the background to the foreground. For example, it wouldn't make sense to stitch the whiskers first and then try to stitch all of the fur around and behind them. Personally, I like starting on the neck because it gives you some time to get familiar with the colors that you've chosen. and see how they blend together before moving on to a more important part like the face. After the neck, if you're doing a cat, I would do the ears next. But if you're doing a dog and the ear kind of covers the face,...”
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Course summary for: Embroidered Pet Portraits: The Thread Painting Technique
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Areas
Embroidery, Naturalistic Illustration, Textile Design
Michelle Staub ⋆ StitchingSabbatical
A course by Michelle Staub ⋆ StitchingSabbatical
Michelle Staub is a hand-embroidery artist based in Ohio, US. Growing up in a family of creatives, she was always encouraged to pursue her artistic side and went on to study art at college. After graduating, she discovered a love for embroidery and the positive impact it had on her mental health, so she began posting and sharing her work online under the name Stitching Sabbatical.
Michelle later created her first pet portrait of her cat and, after receiving a lot of attention online, she started to attract custom commissions for similar pieces. Since then, she has gone on to specialize in embroidered pet portraits and shares her work with over 180K followers on Instagram. In 2021, she also published a book, Pet Portrait Embroidery, filled with patterns and guides to help others create custom pet portraits of their own.
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