Creation of Embroidered Portraits
What do we talk about when we say portrait?
A course by Bugambilo , Visual artist
About the video: What do we talk about when we say portrait?
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to tell you what a portrait is and how we can use different planes to organize the image that we will use in the project. ”
In this video lesson Bugambilo addresses the topic: What do we talk about when we say portrait?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creation of Embroidered Portraits. Learn to illustrate portraits by combining embroidery techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“What we talk about when we say portrait. Now that you have your materials, let's think about what a portrait is, and for that I made a selection of photographs and paintings, that will help us choose the shot with which you will work on this project. I want to tell you where the portrait comes from. As we had spoken before, it is an artistic genre. It has some historical rules and peculiarities that we will see now. It is said that, as a genre, it appears only at the end of the Roman Empire. Before that, the human figure was worked, but with a canon. That is, there were some rules and they ...”
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Course summary for: Creation of Embroidered Portraits
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Areas
Embroidery, Textile Design

Bugambilo
A course by Bugambilo
Sol Kesseler, better known as Bugambilo, is a visual artist and illustrator who uses embroidery as an artistic tool. Trained as a painter, she stumbled upon embroidery by chance. Her work has been featured in specialized magazines and private collections and has been exhibited in different countries. She currently works from her studio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, embroidering illustrations and helping others uncover their passion for crafting with thread.
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