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The myPANTONE application for iPhone has stolen my heart. It’s so much fun!
You can make palettes straight from photos (which is what The Beader’s Color Palette is all about).
You can then email palettes to other bead artists. You can look at several of the PANTONE Color Libraries in traditional fandeck fashion.
You can create color schemes by dragging and dropping right from the color bar on top, and save them for later use or inspiration.
My family and I were lucky last month when the floods ravaged parts of Atlanta: we sustained very little damage. But our backyard was deluged. I made a color scheme out of it using the myPANTONE app.
You can make palettes straight from photos (which is what The Beader’s Color Palette is all about).
You can then email palettes to other bead artists. You can look at several of the PANTONE Color Libraries in traditional fandeck fashion.
You can create color schemes by dragging and dropping right from the color bar on top, and save them for later use or inspiration.
My family and I were lucky last month when the floods ravaged parts of Atlanta: we sustained very little damage. But our backyard was deluged. I made a color scheme out of it using the myPANTONE app.
Here’s the photo I took:
And here’s the palette:
If you have an iPhone or iTouch, you’ll definitely want to check this out. Here are useful links:
YouTube video about myPANTONE
iTunes (where you can download iTunes if you don’t have it, then purchase the myPANTONE app)
And lastly… a link to the app on the PANTONE website
I’ve just returned from teaching, coloring, and getting to know some of the wonderful artists of the Rocky Mountain Bead Society. During my class, “Courting Complements,” many a groan was emitted when we began exploring the unique characteristics of blue and orange. Turns out that pure blue and orange are everywhere the media is in Colorado, because they are the Denver Broncos football team colors. The RMBS artists are, understandably, tired of seeing it.
“OK,” I said, “Then here’s your challenge: design a blue-orange color scheme that could not possibly evoke mental images of the Denver Broncos in any form or fashion.”
This lit a fire under everyone and they excitedly rose to the challenge.
Because everyone keeps the color creations they make in my classes, I don’t have the exact swatches to show you. But they concocted some of the most gorgeous blue-orange palettes that I’ve ever seen. And not once did the football team come to mind.
The RMBS bead artists accomplished this by using tints and tones: they altered the value and intensity of blue and orange as much as possible to distance the combo from the fully-saturated one of the Broncos.
Remember, tints are colors lightened with white. Tones are colors to which a complement has been added. Tones are lower in intensity than the pure color. They also altered the value (value refers to a colors’ lightness or darkness).
Here are replicas of some of the combinations they created.
I’ve just returned from teaching, coloring, and getting to know some of the wonderful artists of the Rocky Mountain Bead Society. During my class, “Courting Complements,” many a groan was emitted when we began exploring the unique characteristics of blue and orange. Turns out that pure blue and orange are everywhere the media is in Colorado, because they are the Denver Broncos football team colors. The RMBS artists are, understandably, tired of seeing it.
“OK,” I said, “Then here’s your challenge: design a blue-orange color scheme that could not possibly evoke mental images of the Denver Broncos in any form or fashion.”
This lit a fire under everyone and they excitedly rose to the challenge.
Because everyone keeps the color creations they make in my classes, I don’t have the exact swatches to show you. But they concocted some of the most gorgeous blue-orange palettes that I’ve ever seen. And not once did the football team come to mind.
The RMBS bead artists accomplished this by using tints and tones: they altered the value and intensity of blue and orange as much as possible to distance the combo from the fully-saturated one of the Broncos.
Remember, tints are colors lightened with white. Tones are colors to which a complement has been added. Tones are lower in intensity than the pure color. They also altered the value (value refers to a colors’ lightness or darkness).
Here are replicas of some of the combinations they created. (By the way, if you live in Colorado and are not a member of the RMBS… check out the great bead programs, classes and events they support – they are one the happiest and most fun bead societies around!)
To learn more about complementary colors, check out The Beader’s Guide to Color, or read through the Margie’s Muse archives at www.MargieDeeb.com
I learned the following from Sara Hardin’s Softflex Girl blog, (Oct. 12)
This is a report from CHA about jewelry making and the crafting industry in general being as healthy as ever.
“The A&U results also show that heavy crafters, those completing 21+ projects, are frequently involved in jewelry-making, in addition to other craft segments…
Nine million households participate in jewelry-making, spending $1 billion dollars in the past year…
In addition, the CHA A&U Study tracks cross-participation behavior. For example, 44% of jewelry-making households also participate in scrapbooking/memory crafts.”
Thanks, Sara!
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