Now this is seriously bold. When working with so many colours, it is easy to go seriously wrong. It takes a deft designer, one with confidence and flair for colours to pull off such a multi-coloured bracelet and wear it too.Shapes not colours were the consistent elements of Susan's bracelet. Large bumpy lampwork beads were separated by cube millifiore and pale seed beads. If you have a gift for colour as Susan has, you won't need a colour wheel or study colour theory.
Susan is also a knitter and quilter and I wonder if she even knows about Kaffe Fassett, the San Francisco-born but London, England based designer famous for his use of many bold colours in his work - needlepoint, mosaic, patchwork, knitting and painting?
The Fire Mountain Gems Style team have also been at work with their 2008 Spring/Summer forecast . Thanks Susan, for that last tip!
Beader design #: 284
Be Bold with Colour : Part 3 of 3
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Awesome Bracelet! The colors are so fun! When you are working with so many colors, what ends up being most important would be the saturation values and tones.
ReplyDeleteQuilter's have a secret magic tool called Ruby Red, so they can create crazy quilts that don't end up clashing. It's a transparent piece of red acrylic, you use it to drown out the colors so you can pay attention to the other details.
Now that is a useful tip. I wonder if Susan uses this tool? Maybe it is genetic; people who can easily work with many colours have an "in-built" Ruby Red in their heads?
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