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Re: Choosing Colours 27 Nov 2011 00:25 #71643

Patchworkjill OFFLINE Posts: 652 Thank you received: 71	I also leave mine up on the design wall for a few days, and sometimes over a month until I can feel its right, and as already said in the different times of the day as the colours look different
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Re: Choosing Colours 26 Nov 2011 13:05 #71635

theothermarion OFFLINE Posts: 233 Thank you received: 42	I leave mine up for several days also...because I want to see it in daylight and evening light. It makes a big difference.
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Re: Choosing Colours 25 Nov 2011 05:48 #71614

Zarah OFFLINE Posts: 1526 Thank you received: 30	Thank you for sharing. That's amazing colors. I get more and more the feeling of how important value is, and I really try to work with it.
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Re: Choosing Colours 24 Nov 2011 15:11 #71601

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Came across this piece this evening

'I heard painter Scott Burdick say, if you get the values right, you can use any color.' http://karengillistaylor.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/how-do-you-paint-a-tree-more-thoughts-on-self-painting-critiques/

Again, it doesn't matter (to me at least), that they are using paints rather than fabrics to achieve their look, they are working with colours and looking at how they balance with each other. How many of us quilters would think to put pinks and purples into a woodland scene, and think they could get away with it? I know I wouldn't :shock: but I might try it now, if I can find the right values

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Re: Choosing Colours 18 Nov 2011 17:26 #71331

prccath OFFLINE Posts: 94	This is also how I work... it goes on to the design wall and sits there for a couple of days/weeks... if i don't have the "impulse" to change it, it is right, if I keep looking at it, and wanting to change something, then its not good yet... I also take photos and look at those, as that sometimes helps..
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Re: Choosing Colours 15 Nov 2011 09:50 #71219

Margo OFFLINE Posts: 6522 Thank you received: 129	That's how I use my design wall! If a layout can stay up a couple of days without my wanting to move stuff around, that's the way it gets sewn together!
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Choosing Colours 15 Nov 2011 09:42 #71217

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Whilst reading a back article on http://needleprint.blogspot.com/I came across this quote and thought it was very thoughtful and useful

I also had chance to speak to Edna Gibson who works with kumihimo - braids - which are wonderful. They are complex and extraordinarily beautiful in their infinite combinations and structures. I was totally mesemerised by Edna's choice of colours and asked how she chose the colours for her designs. I think her answer is helpful not only to braiders, but to stitchers and knitters also. She says she puts a palette of her threads out on a table which she passes many times a day. If she keeps going past it without thinking about it, then she knows the colours are OK. If she has to pause and stop, then she knows there is something wrong and will remove colours and change them.

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