this video is all about color.  Hi guys
and welcome to my channel every single
Wednesday I upload a new video all about
how to use your sewing machine or simple
sewing tips and tricks so guys I am
pulling my artistic vibe today because
we can actually learn from artists as
quilters.  Another useful tool about how
to understand color is grabbing one of
these you can print one off the internet
this one actually came with a like a red
Plexiglass and it tells you all about the
tones of the colors like the value of a
color and I'll touch on values of colors
a little bit later so let's dive into
colors so I just want to share with you
a little story and this is not a bash on
the person and it's not a bash on the
fabric store I just want to share the
story so I was just browsing around and
there was a lady there and she was
wanted to make her quilt so
they'd selected like a main color and
she didn't understand how to put other
colors together
in order to make her quilt so she was
having the lady help her.   Yeah hands
up I'll put my hands up first and say I
have been there and done that but I
think that if you understand how colors
work and complement each other then you
should go to the store and use that as
part of the process that is part of the
quilt making process so anyway this lady
basically just handed all of that over
to the sales assistant and in order to
get colors that like went with each
other because she obviously didn't
understand and there was like no how
much do you want to spend or anything
like that it was just like they were
just shooting through all these colors and by
by the time she went to the till I think it
cost us something like 400 Canadian
dollars which I thought was was quite a
lot like because
when you're making a quilt you've got
to put in like a budget factor as well
as what you like you really do you have
to plan ahead when you're looking into
making a quilt so I really think that if
this lady understood how to put colors
together she could have made that all of
her choice and all of her own work like
now she has a quilt that basically has
been put together by somebody else's
opinion that's my opinion but I think
she would have done a better job if she
would have spent some time at the quilt
store.   Factor going into the quilt store
as part of the process of creating your
quilt it's part of the fun like put the
fun into going to the store and grabing  and finding fabric don't be ashamed
about being in the store for like an
hour or an hour and a half get to know
the sales assistants just get to know
people like make it part of that social
community vibe of the quilting process
so I'm going to let you into a secret
come here all this information is
probably in every single quilt book you
have ever purchased aka
the boring section so understanding
color is basically a term called
color theory that's the terminology for
it so you have primary secondary and
tertiary colors I probably said that
last one wrong sorry pronunciation is
terrible I know you feel like your five
again but bear with me okay.   We have
primary colors yellow blue red so we
have secondary colors which are formed
by mixing the primary colors which are
green orange and purple and we have the
Tetra colors that are created by mixing
the primary and the second colors
together.   You are never going to see
white black or grey on the color wheel
because they are considered as neutral
colors I consider them to be harsh
colors they stand out way too much in a
quilt so I always kind of stay away from
them apart from when I'm thread painting
because I like the thread
to stand out in my work now you have
your warm colors which are your reds
oranges and yellows and you have your
cool  colors which are you blues greens
and your violets and you can tint them
shades and you can make them like an
ombre effect or just make them lighter
or darker.  So on this wheel it gives you
like color harmonies or like
complementary colors so if you don't
know what color complements orange for
example orange is complemented by blue
so if you did a blue and an orange quilt
is going to be such a fantastic contrast
to look at so that our triad colors so
they go it like in a triangle like the
term suggests so if I point it like this
if you were to use a yellow a pink and a
blue that would look awesome on your
quilts however you want to make sure
that the value of colors are going to be
complimentary for each other
because if you use a triad and use like
a pale pink and the pale blue and then a
really vibrant yellow the yellow is
going to stand out on your quilt so much
more so make sure when you use a triad
that if you don't want one color to
physically pop out then make sure it's
in the same value of colors okay so the
next one is
the split
complementary of colors and it's the
hardest one for you to actually screw up
so if you're wanting to create a quilt
base it on split complementary colors and
you're going to be very successful so let's
work it from here let me get this angle
right so split complementary is this
direction so it would be green blue and
red okay I almost forgot to tell you
about the color
value what does the color value mean so
let's say for argument's sake you have a
load of different shades of red
so the different shades of red are the
different values of red so you may have
a light red or you could have a really
deep deep red so the value is where you
can select the tone of the color so
you'll have the lighter red a medium red
and a darker red so that's the color
value and you can still do that using
like different colors  in your quilt
so if you've got like grays yellows and
reds just an example and you can get the
values of all of them different colors
and put your lights your mediums and
your darks together in order to create a
more appealing looking quilt and don't
forget that colors have meanings to
people like there's a whole meaning
behind colors on the internet that you
can search it's so interesting like
green is normally about nature and
yellow is always about like sunshine and
happy and orange is like confidence have
I given you some food for thought when
it comes to colors and creating your
quilts and having much more fun with it
and getting away from them pre-made
blocks I've already cut out for you.   Let
me know in them comments down below and
don't forget enjoy the learning,  Get
excited about the process and have fun
creating your work thank you so much for
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