I’m taking a color class for ordinary people in an Osher Lifetime Learning class at Sonoma State. It’s mainly for people to be able to put colors together in their own lives–clothes, furnishings, etc. I’ve taken dozens of color classes and hoped this would help mesh all the rules I’ve learned. It has. The teacher is a quilter but she knows how to teach people who have no innate talent for color. Last week we talked about Intensity–and its two aspects. Saturation is how much dye there is (weak or strong) and also how “clean or dirty” the color is.
When everyone else in the world was watching the Super bowl I went to my studio and tried to paint light colors (unsaturated) as well as a little bit “muddy”–not kindergarten colors. It was fun. I found a page to copy in a book by Gunta Stolzl. It was a challenge to try to mix my paint to match her colors. You can see I didn’t get nearly light enough. Oh well, the next time. My next assignment to myself is to try different values of colors mixed with their complements. She didn’t use the word complements but said they were mixtures of the other 2 primaries. These should be neutrals or colors that are not easy to name.
Wow! What a great idea….a color class! I can choose several yarns, weave them into a scarf and they sing but when it comes to choosing fabric for a quilt, I just freeze. A class like this is such a great asset! Enjoy!
This sounds like a wonderful class. Something I could definitely use. I’d like to see if it is being taught in the NYC area. Please send information on instructor.
nice to hear from you, Francesca. I’ll tell my teacher you’d like her information. Peggy
You are always expanding your knowledge, Peggy. I really like the way you copied the page – the “same” but with your own touches.