Needle Painting for Beginners
How to choose the right photo to embroider
A course by Valentina Castillo , Embroiderer and Graphic Designer
About the video: How to choose the right photo to embroider
Overview
“Photography will be our guiding element throughout the process, in addition to our color source. Therefore, in this lesson I will show you some examples of photographs that serve and photographs that do not, explaining why.”
In this video lesson Valentina Castillo addresses the topic: How to choose the right photo to embroider, which is part of the Domestika online course: Needle Painting for Beginners. Paint with embroidery and learn to create unique animal portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to choose the right picture to embroider? In this lesson we will see how to choose the right photograph To embroider your pet. Keep in mind that photography is very important when embroidering our pet since it will be our source of color and it will be our guide in the process. Therefore, it is important that the photograph has high quality and have very bright and vibrant colors. For example, we have this picture of a greyhound where we notice the brightness of the eye, that it is important to portray in an animal since it captures the essence. We can also notice a glow in the nose whi...”
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Course summary for: Needle Painting for Beginners
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Areas
Embroidery, Naturalistic Illustration, Textile Design
Valentina Castillo
A course by Valentina Castillo
Valentina Castillo is a graphic designer and embroiderer. She started to teach herself to embroider in 2015. At first, she embroidered her own animal illustrations, as these little critters had always been her main source of inspiration, and later began to take her use of embroidery as a form of expression further.
After the death of her dog, she decided to portray pets through embroidery to immortalize and honor their memory. Since then, she has made more than 100 embroidered portraits of dogs, cats, hedgehogs, you name it! Her specialties within embroidery are needle painting and silk shading.
She also gives embroidery workshops at Revesderecho to teach people their own way of understanding embroidery. In 2018, she collaborated on Makikoart's "I love my dog embroidery" book, where she embroidered more than 40 different breeds of dog.
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