Inspired to Design by Elizabeth Barton

Author:Elizabeth Barton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Published: 2013-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Different intensities in three colors

There are two different ways of reducing intensity when hand dyeing fabric. You can add a little drop of black dye, which has the effect of literally adding gray to the original color, or you can add a little of the complementary color, the one opposite on the color wheel. For example, if you add a little green to red, it shifts the red toward a neutral brown. It makes it darker, but the color is also less red, less intense. If you have some water-color paints, try experimenting with reducing intensity so you can see how this happens.

EXERCISE

Color Intensity

1. Go back to your snippets. Cut more from different colors of fabric if needed.

2. Arrange them from most intense to least intense within color families—all the blues, all the reds, and so on. Look for the most intense examples of those colors, and then for each color find a watered-down or grayed-out version of the same color. As you pick up each snippet, ask yourself, “Is this color rich or dull?” Then as you place it in line next to other rich (intensely saturated) colors or dull (watery or grayed) colors, ask, “Is it more or less intense than this one?” It is helpful to look first for the really intense, knock-your-socks-off colors. Then look for snippets that are so gray that you can barely see a hint of color. You must ignore value! Remember the richest, most intense colors are usually of medium value and the least saturated colors are either very pale or very grayed and dark.

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