Misty: Hey everybody, it’s Misty from Missouri Star Quilt Company.
I hope you’re enjoying our online birthday bash.
Up next as part of the festivities we have a great video from Amy Marsen at C&T Publishing.
And she is going to dive into how to use a color wheel when designing your quilts.
This is Joan Wolfrum’s Essential Color Wheel Companion and Amy is going to teach you all
about it.
Amy: Hi my name is Amy Marsen and I’m the publisher at C&T Publishing.
And today I’m excited to talk to you about the Joan Wolfrum’s Essential Color Wheel
Companion.
So I’ve talked to you before about the ultimate three in one color tool and the studio color
wheel poster.
So let me tell you what’s special about the Essential Color Wheel Companion.
So what you want to do with the Color Wheel Companion is you start off by selecting a
color.
So in this case we are going to take a look at the orange-red.
And on the orange-red, what you’ll notice is there are four color families.
The first color family is complementary.
The second is the split complementary so you see one color and then the analogous colors
on the other side.
This is the analogous color family and this is the triadic color family.
What you’ll notice here at the end on what we call petals is the pure color.
And here in the center is the pure color.
So when you’re looking at this you can see what colors to choose.
Every color has a number.
So as an example for, and I’m going to turn this over so you can see the other side.
But let’s remember 20, 12 and 4.
So when I turn it over I’ve got 20 here and that’s an orange-red.
So I’ve picked out a fabric that has orange-red.
And you can see it down here in the shades.
So when you’re looking at one of the color wedges what you’re going to notice is there’s
white on this side and those are the tints.
So they have white added to the pure color.
On this other side they are shades and they’ve had gray added to the pure color.
And you can see it down here as well.
And once again, pure color here, pure color there.
So we’re starting with the orange-red and we are going to find two other colors that
go with it.
So then we were looking for 4 which has our spring green in here.
And then the other one I believe was 12 and that’s our blue-violet.
So we look at those three colors together and that is our triadic color family.
And you’ll see when you put those three colors together they’re harmonious and they
work really well together.
So that’s the triadic color family.
Next we are going to look at our complementary.
And so what we’ve got here is our yellow-green.
And across from it is our purple.
And you can see how those two go together and those are complementary.
And once again you put them side by side and they just, the colors sing and dance off of
each other.
The third color family I’m going to talk about is analogous.
And analogous is when you’ve got your colors that are next to each other.
So here you can see we’re starting with the yellow-green and then we’re going into
some of the aquas and the blues.
And you can see how nicely those all go together.
So you take a set of colors that are close to each other on the color wheel.
And by putting them together you create a more harmonious look and it’s not quite
so vibrant.
Another example of the analogous color family, I happen to love batiks, is right here with
this batik color.
So you can see we go from the blue into the blue-violet and then the violet.
And then even a little bit, not so much red-violet but just these three and that’s analogous
as well.
So then once again you have a beautiful, nice, harmonious color family.
So this product is great to take with you to class, to the fabric store when you’re
shopping.
And it has this little petal and you can just set your color right underneath it and decide
if you think that that color is what you want to have for your project.
So take a look at the Essential Color Wheel Companion from Joan Wolfrum and let me know
what you think because the great thing about this product is it allows you to choose perfect
color every time with confidence.
Thank you.