Lively Pet Portraits: Fur Embroidery Techniques

Color Selection: Threads and Background Fabric

A course by Santo Cielo , Designer and Textile Artist

Designer and Textile Artist. Berlin, Germany.
Joined March 2021
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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

“Now that you 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 a 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 colors more easily so we can fold the the parts and put it in the color card And then we need another piece of tracing paper. ...”

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Course summary for: Lively Pet Portraits: Fur Embroidery Techniques

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (70)
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  • 5 units
  • 23 lessons (5h 6m)
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    Arts & Crafts, Embroidery, Textile Design

Santo Cielo

Santo Cielo
A course by Santo Cielo

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Designer and Textile Artist

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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Lively Pet Portraits: Fur Embroidery Techniques. Craft course by Santo Cielo

Lively Pet Portraits: Fur Embroidery Techniques

A course by Santo Cielo
Designer and Textile Artist. Berlin, Germany.
Joined March 2021
  • 100% positive reviews (70)
  • 3,204 students