Modern Color - Whisper Color

Quilt Festival in Houston has invited me to teach in their Modern Quilter classroom this November.

One of the classes is called How to Cheat at Color. We will cover a wide variety of ways to choose color combinations. Of all the classes I teach this is my favorite. Perhaps it is the group setting, with everyone seeing the work of all the others. When it comes to color we get our personal preferences when we receive our DNA. We can teach ourselves to use select color combinations but when we quilt for sanity or serenity we always return to our feel-good colors. I refuse to change that in my students. I want each student to understand which colors please them at an emotional level and how to use colors to win big ribbons. I love the exercise with the “ugly” color. It comes toward the end of class and is very exciting for me, as the teacher, to watch.

This is the handout with links provided in class. Feel free to look them over and take the color tests under Activities.

Color:

www.ctpub.com
C&T Publishing offers the 3 in 1 Color Tool and the book Color Play by Joen Wolfrom

www.Trendstop.com
Offers color trends analysis for fashion and creative professionals

www.worqx.com/color/combinations.htm
Color theory in detail

Color Wheel Pro – a program that allows you to see color theory in action: you can create harmonious color schemes and preview them on real-world examples.

http://www.sdc.org.uk/
Color forecasting and much more.

http://colorchats.benjaminmoore.com/2012/09/color-me-cranky-color-theory/
The emotions of paint color

www.colorschemedesigner.com
My favorite color scheme site. Includes the colors seen by various color-blind disorders.

www.colormatters.com/index.html
How color affects us and marketing with color.

www.colorvoodoo.com
Color information

http://galadarling.com/advice/fashion-help-for-recovering-goths
Fashion colors for recovering Goths.