First Quarter Challenge 2015 - Color

[koffipot]

I've found that a black/white photo helps in determining value.

[zed]

I love all those photos, Zara!

Judith, I forgot to say I like your fibre wheel. I'm just waiting for the washer to finish then I'm going to try one. It's dark here though, so I'm not sure the photos will be great.

[halay]

Judith, I like your colour wheel. Why don't you just felt your layout as it is, perhaps on a background?
Zara, your greens are amazing!

[zed]

I tried to do mine. I seem to have a lot of shades I don't think really fit on a 2D wheel or scale, maybe if there was another dimension for the saturation

Here's the wheel:


I then added lighter/darker shades:


I thought I might be able to find where everything went better if I did a row:


Some shades were hard to categorise, they were lighter than some, but darker than others, but not quite the same shade as either, definitely less saturation, but I do tend to go for things like that.

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Zara, all your shades of green are awesome.. It looks like lots of hard work"

[Frances]

I started making colored balls but quickly realized that I did not have enough colors available to create much more than the basics.

I then thought about how I love to go to the paint store and browse the 1000 or so paint chips (color cards) when decorating a room. My favorite paint is Benjamin Moore and I remembered their web site.

Isn’t it wonderful to visit a store from your office chair? At the Benjamin Moore Paint web site I clicked on the “Explore Color” tab. This brings up color chart. Just above is a tab to select options which allows one to study the different gradients of a specific color. Use the zoom tool to look closely at the color variances’. This is similar to the detailed color wheel posted earlier.

www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/for-your-home/color-gallery#&ce_vm=0

Go back to the “Explore Color” tab and look at the “Color Fans” that can be purchased. The “Color Preview” would be close to a color wheel.

store.benjaminmoore.com/storefront/shop-by-product/color-tools/cndShopByProduct-ccolortools-p1.html

Also on the explore color tab there is a game using paint: Become a color expert! Test your color skills by arranging colors from Benjamin Moore's Williamsburg®, Affinity® and Color Preview® paint color systems. Bendoku is a mix of sudoku, crossword puzzles, flow, and color all mixed into one! It is based on color principles and exercises taught in art schools around the world. Players complete levels by moving paint color chips onto a puzzle board completing blends from one color to another. To get to the next level, a player fills in the empty squares from the palette to create smooth sequences of colors both horizontally and vertically.

www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/for-your-home/play-bendoku

This is an interesting site and you can virtually pick colors to paint a room – think about using this to work up a color palette for a felted piece.

Have fun exploring color!

[Frances]

PS - if you have never spent an hour in a paint store - please do it!

[MTRuth]

Paint chips are great for making color wheels. Thanks for the link to the site.

Zed - if you start adding in mixtures of colors like a greyed down one it starts to get much more complex. You could just leave those out and do a simple color wheel.

[koffipot]

!'ve redone mine this afternoon and realise I have very few blues and I've run out of black. WoW here I come!

[zara]

Jan 6, 2015 4:37:22 GMT MTRuth said:

Zara - lovely greens. When you mix a hue with grey you get what's called a "tone". But the rest of your terminology is correct. 

OK - tints, shades and tones. I think I've got it now. At least that part. :-)

Ruth, I also noted that the complex colour wheel you shared is not symmetrical as to the placement of the true red, yellow and blue. There are many more hues between blue and red, and between blue and yellow, compared to between red and yellow. That makes following rules such as picking complementary colours opposite to each other in the colour wheel more difficult...? 

[Shepherdess]

I think perhaps if we keep using the terminology it will stick in my brain. the class I took was just one day so after the class I didn't Keep using the terms in the correct manner. we use them differently in everyday life. I don't think I would use tint when describing something getting lighter. and if I say I like that shade of blue I don't mean that black has been added.
Does that make sense?

[zara]

Frances - I downloaded Benduko to my IPad and it is really addictive and fun! Really frustrating when I struggle with some greens :-), but at least I managed to get to number 60 only using 2 "solves". Had to stop now - I can't play Benduko all evening... ;-) Will show it to my kids tomorrow - they often have disagreements on which order to keep their coloured pencils in. :-)

[Shepherdess]

Zed You did well trying to sort them out. we all tend to be drawn to one section of the wheel. Mine would probably be very pale orange at the moment as that is the colour I use least. I need to do some dyeing.

Now to go play Francis' game.

[MTRuth]

Yes Ann the terms are used differently but no big deal. As long as you understand the concept.

[MTRuth]

Zara - I just used that color wheel to show the tints and shade placement on the wheel. I use a standard one for picking complementary colors and color schemes. I will post more on the color wheel soon.