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Stash Appreciation– Be a Color Explorer

by Lisa Check | Aug 17, 2015 | Blog, color, Stash appreciation

Most makers I know have a stash of one kind or another. It may be beads, fabric, yarn, roving, threads, magazines, papers or all of the above. Yes, I do have a stash. Even though I dye my own yarn all the time, I also buy yarn and roving that calls my name. Very...

Purple Munsell Exercises

by Sam Fargo | May 25, 2014 | color, Yarn

This is the last of my exercises in the Munsell Color book. I have learned a lot doing these exercises. Probably more importantly is that these exercises have trained my color “eye”. There were three exercises, “purple”,...

Green Color Exercises

by Lisa Check | Mar 13, 2014 | color

It’s been awhile since I pulled out my Munsell Student Color Book. There is a green exercise though. So I pulled apart my color chips and pulled out the mounting paper. I have to tell you that I was rusty. I found that when doing these exercises it is...

5 YR Munsell Color Exercise

by Lisa Check | Oct 13, 2013 | color

The red-yellow cards have so many brown or so called “neutrals” in them. The darker shades of red-yellow go immediately into the brown territory. Mahagony, tan, beige, leathers, tobacco. Also most skin tones are in the red-yellow family.

Color Exercise–Yellow

by Lisa Check | Sep 18, 2013 | color

Color–Part 3 VALUE

by Lisa Check | Aug 16, 2013 | color

No doubt! Value is the hardest color dimension to talk about. I have found that seeing the value of color is a learned skill. It is hard to differentiate and so it is very frustrating. Value is the lightness or darkness of the color, it is also is a measure of color...