Textile Illustration with Acrylic, Felt, and Embroidery
Felt: General Details
A course by Juanamatú (Katerin J Gómez) , Toy Creator
Joined October 2014
About the video: Felt: General Details
Overview
“In this lesson, I will put into practice the technique of needle felting. To begin to bring the character to life, I will be felting from the medium tones to the dark and light ones.”
In this video lesson Juanamatú (Katerin J Gómez) addresses the topic: Felt: General Details, which is part of the Domestika online course: Textile Illustration with Acrylic, Felt, and Embroidery. Learn how to create original illustrations using mixed techniques, from painting with acrylic on fabric and felting with wool, to finishing it all off with embroidery.
Partial transcription of the video
“Felt: general details In this lesson we are going to start with the felting technique. We'll start with the midtones of the rabbit's body. For my bunny's skin I'm going to use three shades, a sienna or a medium brown, dark brown to give it shades, and a cream to give it highlights. I'm going to drink medium coffee as the base color of my rabbit's skin and as we felt we are going to add both the dark coffee and the light coffee to give it light and shadow tones, very subtle tones. I'm going to take some of my coffee and I'm going to organize it with my fingers. I'm going to pick an area wher...”
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Course summary for: Textile Illustration with Acrylic, Felt, and Embroidery
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Acrylic Painting, Arts & Crafts, Embroidery, Needle Felting, Textile Design

Juanamatú (Katerin J Gómez)
A course by Juanamatú (Katerin J Gómez)
Katerin Gómez is a craft lover and professional toy creator specialized in the needle felting technique. She graduated in drawing and illustration from La Escuela Nacional de Caricatura, the first illustration school in Colombia, where she worked for almost ten years as a designer, teacher, and events and exhibitions organizer. After returning to Bogotá, following a short but transformative experience at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Lucerne, Switzerland, she switched up her career and opted for her great childhood passion: creating characters.
Now she combines her illustration training and her desire to tell stories by designing and making unique dolls in her creative toy store, Juanamatú.
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