Lively Pet Portraits: Fur Embroidery Techniques
Color Selection: Threads and Background Fabric
A course by Santo Cielo , Designer and Textile Artist
About the video: Color Selection: Threads and Background Fabric
Overview
“A good selection of threads and fabric colors will make a huge difference to your piece! Here I’ll give you some tips on how to achieve this.”
In this video lesson Santo Cielo addresses the topic: Color Selection: Threads and Background Fabric, which is part of the Domestika online course: Lively Pet Portraits: Fur Embroidery Techniques. Learn to embroider realistic animal portraits by exploring fur and stitching techniques to give your favorite pet life and texture.
Partial transcription of the video
“Color Selection: Threads and Background Fabric Now that you've already done the fur movement and the layers, I invite you to my favorite part of embroidery, one of my favorites, and that's the color selection. First, we're going to do the color selection of the threads and then we're going to select the color of the background fabric. First, I invite you to cut the picture of your pet. I have it in double size, like fit to an A4 sheet, and we're going to cut according to the layers. This will help us to work with the colors more easily, so we can fold the parts and put it in the color card....”
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Course summary for: Lively Pet Portraits: Fur Embroidery Techniques
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Embroidery, Textile Design
Santo Cielo
A course by Santo Cielo
Santiago Celio Cioli is a designer and textile artist from Montevideo, Uruguay. Although he earned his degree in industrial design at the Escuela Universitaria Centro de Diseño, and has since worked in many design and artistic fields, his passion is handmade embroidery.
For the past few years, Santo has been living in Berlin, where he currently works as an embroidery artist. His work ranges from portraits of pets, people, memories, and even imaginary creatures. Apart from taking commissions, he also hosts embroidery workshops for beginners.
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