Hex Signs: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Learning the Craft by Hoyt Ivan E

Author:Hoyt, Ivan E.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780811749992
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2013-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

The heart shapes on your hex signs can also feature more than one color. They are normally painted a shade of red, but they can be bordered with one or more colors, crosshatched with lines, or filled in with polka dots, Swiss dots, smaller hearts, stars, or any pattern you create to add more color interest to your hex sign.

Bright, bold, spontaneous use of color is the way of the true folk artist, but the selection of colors is up to you. Red is frequently used in traditional hex signs and is sometimes said to have been the Dutchman’s favorite color. This may have had something to do with the availability of the ferrous oxide pigment commonly found in the soil of southeastern Pennsylvania and the frugality of the Pennsylvania Dutch farmer. White, black, yellow, and green were also used often, but blue pigment was made from imported indigo plants and thus was used less because of the expense.

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