Comments on: Color Relationships https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2010/05/color-relationships/ find joy, be inspired, create beauty Wed, 02 Oct 2013 20:08:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Deborah Younglao, Silk Painter https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2010/05/color-relationships/#comment-626 Thu, 06 May 2010 01:53:13 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=121#comment-626 Aaah color. Nothing like it! Although I paint mostly in bright tones I'm very drawn to more subdued ones, like in your "Three". That's a great palette. Working with transparent dyes, I get the most delicious and varied neutrals. Have never done a whole painting with neutrals though – gotta try it!

]]> By: Lisa https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2010/05/color-relationships/#comment-624 Thu, 06 May 2010 00:49:49 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=121#comment-624 I love the pear color wheel! During the time when all that seemed to be available were calicos I was drawn to Amish quilts – the bright beautiful solids mixed with blacks, blues or brown. I am so grateful for the bright colors we have in fabric today and that I am learning how to dye.

]]> By: Jeannie https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2010/05/color-relationships/#comment-623 Wed, 05 May 2010 21:42:47 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=121#comment-623 Color and texture. I can't not walk down an aisle of textiles of any sort or a garden center without stopping to pet a leave or touch a piece of fabric, yarn, clothing – the more texture, the better. I really like the pear color wheel and the out of the box quilt. I still have a love affair with brown. Have a great day.

]]> By: LoieJ https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2010/05/color-relationships/#comment-622 Wed, 05 May 2010 19:15:00 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/blog/?p=121#comment-622 Color is what drew me to quilting. I'd sewn since junior high, but nothing creative until I started experimenting with some pictorial applique in about 1982 when I had no knowledge of quilting.

My first quilting book was Color the Quilter's Guide, by Christine Barnes (1997) and the book still speaks to me.

I was constantly invited by a friend who teaches quilting to take a class from her, but I rebelled against the idea that we would all do the same pattern and get the same result. But when I finally took the class, I discovered that even the same traditional patterns were greatly altered by color choice, so they become partially our own. {And that is why I don't buy kits. They would not be my own.]

Shortly thereafter, I never again followed a pattern exactly, and soon I was just making stuff up as I went. Some of it is artistic, some, well, not so much.

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