Mark Boulton has written 2 articles in a series titled Five Simple Steps to designing with colour. The series is aimed at web designers but much of what he says can be applied to textile design. The first article covers working with tone and the second part covers colour terminology …
Celestial seasonings (the people who produce tea) have published some wonderful colouring pages that can be easily adapted for embroidery. Thanks for the link goes to Shay Toner who dropped me an email about it.
There are many resources online that give you the basics of how to draw. This tutorial on Measuring the Human Form from the Wet Canvas site covers proportion and placing a human figure in perspective.
The Dragonfly website houses a huge gallery of photos of dragonflies. Since dragonflies are a favourite motif for crazy quilters these images can be used as visual source material for anyone interested in creating dragonflies in thread. They are not difficult to interpret in a textile medium as I did …
I have recently discovered a new blog which has had me digging about in the archives and generally having a good satisfying poke about. The key topic area of Strobist is photography and it is loaded with tips and tutorials that will improve your photography. For instance for approximately $10.00 …
For those with a Photoshop brush addiction Brush Fed houses more than 800 brushes which can be downloaded and used.
Often you need photographic reference material for a particular drawing Art Morgue aims to assist artists by hosting thousands of images that can be used as reference material. Images can not be used for other purposes such as digital manipulation in a graphics software package but it looks a very …
