#color use

[obsessedbyneon]

Health care center in Beverwaard, the Netherlands, by Tuns + Horsting.

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[anotherdayforchaosfay]

I got into a debate with my mom regarding the color yellow. Personally, I love this color and the challenge it presents when sewing with yellow fabric. She hates it and finds yellow to be ugly except in specific settings (like flowers).

For context, my mom and I are both quilters and the discussion regarding yellow started when I brought up how very little yellow fabric I have in my fabric stash.

PLEASE REBLOG!!!

Here are some of the things I've made with yellow. It's such a fun and challenging color, and it makes my adhd purr.

Please share the things you've made using yellow.

Thank you!

[theboxfort]

Peace and love

[greykolla-art]

Imagine spending all your energy being cool and mysterious 24/7.

What an idiot have I mentioned I love him?

Idea came from a cool post @nouverx made about Alastor’s possible sleeping habits. 💕

[mapsontheweb]

Average color of US states based on satellite imaging.

[goodpix2021]

What Does It All Mean?

The night. Today I’d like to talk about color symbolism. Not to worry, I’m only going to talk about a few selected colors. Any more than that and you’ll fall asleep. Ready? Here we go. Red is considered to be a color of intense emotions, and its color meaning ranges from anger, sacrifice, danger, and heat, through to passion, and sexuality. Used in branding, it can deliver an impactful punch…

[lazycranberrydoodles]

you’ll never guess who i got into (redraw of screenshot from the casual mv) (psst my comms are open)

[gendernewtral]

gilbert baker designed his flag with the express purpose of it including every single queer person. baker was so dedicated to making sure his flag was inclusive that he added another stripe in 2017, lavender, to represent diversity. the concept that it’s for white gay men came around later and needs to be changed.

can we please go back to associating the original flag, and ideally the modern rainbow flag, with inherent inclusion of every single queer person? instead of deciding that the original wasn’t good enough? personalized flags are important for representing those who have typically been excluded from the queer community, but reclaiming the original flag as a symbol of inclusion is important too.

[krysmcscience]

I have some questions about karaoke night, Alex Hirsch. Very Important Questions. Which I will happily scream at a poor hapless baby triangle who can have no answers for me, and possibly also does not have object permanence yet.

Follow-up that is I guess suggestive, but let's be real here, Bill's a fucking triangle:

Dude slipped right into his birthday suit, lmao

this is so stupid :D

Anyway, I don't care what anyone says, this brilliant individual knows what's up - Bill is absolutely way more of a monsterfucker than Ford could or ever will be, full stop.

[ckret2]

I'd like to think Bill was projecting in the paragraph on hibernation.

(fun fact! every color in bill's clothes, breakup recovery objects, and furniture were color picked from ford's body! yes bill did get a leather couch the same color as ford's flesh!)

[fluentisonus]

He added, after a pause: “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”

Les Misérables, Volume I / Book V / Chapter III, trans. Hapgood

[lotus-pear]

ok gayboy

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

Could you please explain the greyscale/color thing you were referring to in your reblog of that WW quilt? I'm awful when it comes to color things and I'd love some insights!

Okay, so when I choose colors, I like to make it balanced. This plays a HUGE role in how it will look once finished. I lay thr fabrics next to each other and see if the colors look nice. If they do, I switch to my phone's camera and slide over to greyscale. This removes the color. Think black and white movies. Greyscale shows thr volume of the color. If you have a quilt with neon colors, they pop...unless it's all neon. In greyscale, it all looks the same. This goes double for prints.

I have an example of this here:

The first pic is in color. Slide to the second. That's greyscale. High volume would be the black on top and bottom of the spools, as well as all thr prints that appear dark. Low volume is the background fabric and all other prints that appear lighter.

It took several rounds of arranging the blocks before I was satisfied with how it looked in color as well as in greyscale. It's very pleasantly balanced.

Here's another:

The blue is a high volume, pink is medium, and the yellow and green are low volume. Slide to the second picture and you can see how greyscle reveals this.

Using this little trick will save you time and a potential dose of disappointment avoided.

This quilt is all high volume:

I had to break it up with a white border in order to balance it. Otherwise, it wouldn't stand out, and end up looking messy. That white border is as low volume as you can get, being a solid white. With all the black and intense colors (yes, the yellow is high volume), the white was needed, but just a little bit.

Apply this to anything you make using color, including painting. Not everyone can see color, so using this trick actually helps make things more accessible. They cam see and appreciate the arrangement of the colors, the iverall design, and not get a visual mess, as was explained to me by someone who is double colorblind. To them, a lot of quilts are just noise. Finding the sort of quilts that apply more use on volume arrangements is difficult, but that makes them all the more valued.

[anna-scribbles]

adrinette exes & marichat! part 3!

(part 1 / part 2)

[zfedraws]

Oh Tara, we’re really in it now….

[jiiniix]

redrawing an old wip