Makerss Masterclass - Cat Portrait with Agnese Davies
Makerss Masterclass - Cat Portrait with Agnese Davies
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Welcome to our brand new Makerss Masterclass Series!
In this video masterclass we explore how to needle felt a Cat Portrait.
Join award-winning artist, Agnese Davies, in her 5 part Needle Felt Masterclass as she teaches how to create a Cat Head and Paw in frame. Agnese will take you through how to make the portrait step-by-step. With techniques covering 3D shaping, surface decoration and fibre blending.
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Below are recommendations from Agnese herself on what you will need for this masterclass:
“- Firstly you will want to get some deep frames. I used shadow box frames 10x10cm - you can get them in white, grey or black colours.
- You’ll need some structural core that size for each cat from The Makerss too. It's a great base to make cat portraits on, I also use it for my 2D or semi 3D pictures. For whiskers I used Turkey feathers, cleaned them from fluff, but real cat whiskers are the best, or horsehair can do well too.
- Felting needles, well use your favourite's and what feels right.
- Of course you will need some core wool too, my favourite is lanolin rich, but use your personal favourite. You’ll need a pair of 12mm or 15mm size half dome clear glass cabochons for the eyes and black nail varnish for pupils (I use UV one and harden it with UV lamp, but you can use self drying one).
For the merino wool for the top coat (furring) technique use:
Flesh Pink Batts (for nose)
(please note your cat may require different coloured wool that those listed above)
You don’t need a huge quantity of wool, 20g of each top coat wool will be plenty for quite a few projects. I’d suggest using hand carders for smooth blending. In places where there are black stripes you’ll use black tops, but in between there’s a mix of beige, medium brown or/and pale brown with some black. Make different blends and use small amounts of black in the mix so it's not too dark.“
If you have any enquiries or are needing assistance on how to match the perfect colour for you cat, please email adwoolcraft@gmail.com
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I’ve watched other tutorials but struggled to get the features right so thought I’d try Agnese Davies. I’ve watched the videos and taken note of the tips provided. Hope to felt a portrait in the holidays and share the result.
I've watched a few videos to get a feel for the class but not started to felt yet. There seems to be good content to create a life-like cat and the tutor's work is lovely.
I've given it four stars for two reasons:
1. It seems an expensive class. It is videos only, no PDF templates and no kit or materials.
2. The audio is terrible. There is a background noise - like an empty buzzing and I am unable to turn up the sound very high as that background increases and the tutor's voice is not very loud . This doesn't happen with any other videos so I am sure it is the video audio rather than my computer.
Absolutely loved this masterclass. I had no idea I would be capable of creating something like this and I just can’t wait to do more
The tuition from Agnese is brilliant and really clear with tips and tricks of how to do certain things and give you options.
Truly invaluable and really pleased I did this. Thank you for a wonderful class.
And I can watch it back any time!
