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ColorWorks by Deb Menz ColorWorks is the perfect color guide for fiber artists. All the colors of the rainbow are worked in threads, yarns and other fibers plus beads, using nine motifs repetitively to compare color combinations. You can look from one set of motifs to the next, and see how they change depending on what groups of colors are combined. One of the nine motifs is always bead embroidery, the bead colors changing from one group to the next, and in how dark or light the colors change. The other eight samples are work using quilted, knitted, woven, hand cast paper, machine stitched, thread embroidery, wrapped yarn, and hand painted or silkscreen fabric techniques. Each color group is explained with examples and easy to understand language. You learn color theory as you go, and it is applicable to the medium you use in your work. There are many more examples in addition to the nine motifs, which teach you gray scale, saturation, value and all the other goodies that make your work sensational instead of average. There is a color wheel and several color samples on heavy paper that can be removed from the book to experiment next to your fiber colors. In addition, there are black pages with sections to pop out and your fiber or the color samples put in the sections to learn what is complimentary, split complimentary, etc., and there is a little pocket at the back of the book to set these samples. ColorWorks offers a practical application to learn color theory, using fibers in techniques you are familiar with and can easily relate to. |
