Say it with Color - Off the Wall Friday

I love color.  I know that I spend a lot of time saying how important value is when I'm designing but I still love color more.  So you can imagine how happy I was that this month's topic is color.  Its fun to explore how color can be used to express the mood of a piece.  Its amazing how much you can communicate  with just picking out the right palette.

How you ask? 

 Well here are some tips. . . .

Red, Orange, Yellow - Emotional Colors - strength, energy, joy, enthusiasm, passion, etc

Notice how I used these colors to express my passion for praise - the joyfulness that I feel when I praise God.

I used Blue and Purple for a calm but rich mood

Green - freshness, rebirth, harmony, newness

Blue - water and sky - calmness or storminess - serenity and sincerity

Purple - always adds richness

White is always pure for me and Black is about power

So with those general guidelines in mind I created my sketches for this month assignment.  I took Elizabeth's suggestion and made one sketch.  It was one that I'm going to do a little piece for with Open Studio so why not kill two birds with one stone??  I then interpreted it into three palettes that  - hopefully - create three  different moods.  It was fun to get out the crayons and the color pencils!  Not to mention I love working with organic shapes!

So what have you been up to creatively?

 Now its your turn to link up!

Here are the rules:

1. Link up any post from the past week that is creatively driven, WIP, Finish Pieces, Process oriented etc - Art Quilt perferred, any media accepted
2. Somewhere in your post, please link back to my blog
3. Please visit  some of the other blogs and leave a comment or two - an encouraging word means a lot to an artist!
4. Be Inspired!

 

1. Regina B Dunn: Fun D	2. Maartje Quilt in Ams	3. Mud Cloth . . .	4. Fabricating Nature w
5. Sew Slowly	6. Hilary Florence	7. Tranquility	8. Margas Crafts
9. Heather's Blog	10. Notes from Norma	11. JulieBagamaryArt-Per	12. THE INSIDE STORI
13. Quirks Ltd.	14. Linda McLaughlin:	15. One Big Leaf	16. dance of candy corn
17. Gwyned Trefethen's M	18. Julia in Mississippi	19. Kathleen Loomis	20. Quilting Solutions:
21. Wil's art: dyeing	22. Two pieces placed!	23. BBQA Block 10 (sub)	24. Linda A. Miller
25. Sylvia	26. Alycia Quilts:	27. AZ ÁLMOK VALÓRA VÁ	28. Tree Of Life quilt
29. CHRIS'S QUILTING U	30. birds/flowers	31. Amy's Etcetera: To F	32. Red Orange Wolff

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