Thursday, February 9, 2017

Colour, Design & Stripes

The Guild was pleased to have Jan K. bring her 'Trunk" show to our meeting.  She reviewed the basics of colour and design and gave us some ideas about stripes.  Using an array of her work to portray concepts of design, colour and stripes

Design: Colour, Pattern, Texture
Inspiration - Interpretation
Quilted example of Grey Scale
             Ratios - Fibonacci
             Inspiration - Interpretation







Colour:  Tint -colour + white
               Shade - colour + black
              Tone - colour + grey
              Gray Scale
              Monochromatic - one colour
              Analagous - 3 colours side by side on colour wheel
              Complementary - colours opposite on colour wheel
              Triad - 3 colours equal distance on colour wheel







Stripes:   Symmetrical
               Asymmetrical
       Strie - 4 or 5 colour threads warped together randomly
       Ombre - 2 colours graduating to solid colour
       

Ombre
Strei