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Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

abby_p — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:27:35 GMT

Woooo! I am sooo going to get that book. Just checked it out on Amazon.

MANY thanks for the heads up Donna!

much love,

Abby x

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

D.M.Z — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:09:53 GMT

Aunty and Abby, I do not have any problems with colors except I tend to like them bright, bright, or bright......LOL. Yesterday was my final visit to the eye surgeon, I am dismissed and in perfect shape to go on with my beading........and I have a loom project in view (one of my orchids that is blooming right now) so I am ready to go. I've always thought that I loved saturated colors because I have had bad vision, but not my current thinking. I like some pastels but mostly mixed with strong colors.

I have always had a leaning toward orange, so sunny and perky........but I also love the greens and yellows, almost all of them and the pinky/peachy shades that are not so washed out as to be wimpy. Reds and blues have to be exceptional for me ot like them......dunno why, they just don't resonate to me very much, but purples are fine. Neutrals are what they are supposed to be, fillers.

While in the city where the surgeon is, I went to my fave book store (and darn glad it is 120 mile round trip or I'd be there a LOT more often) and found a UK based book on color. It was so refreshingly done I had to have it. It was "conceived, designed and produced" in UK, but published by Krause in US. The author is Sandra Wallace who has a very nice bio..........the book is "The Beader's Color Mixing Directory" and her ideas on how to lay out and display color combos just struck me as just gorgeous. She gives the color theory in clear terms, then supplies examples of the ranges of the colors. She moves you through many examples with photos and in the back are some projects in different colorways.

I have other color guides in my library, one from a painter, three from beaders, but Ms. Wallace is very readable and explains clearly. It is is book that I'd rate right up there. The only failing and it is tiny, tiny........is that she does not give the color numbers for the projects, but given a delica color chart, they would be easy peasy to figure. Donna

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

Aunty Akoya — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:49:07 GMT

Hi Abby, such tools are very helpful anyway, i use some colour cards too if i need inspiration and want to break out of my usually colour habbits. Most time i go for tone in tone combinations, but when i see the great colourful jewellery from others.... sometimes i go for the colour intoxication too.

How could you be terrible with colours :)), would like to think in this modern times it is allowed to combine all colours in every shade, i remember a time where people told me it would be awful to combine for example red and pink, or too much bright colours together, but how fantastic it can look.... that is all gone and i think lots beaders don't care anyway much about it, so much can look unexpected great. its allways just the in eye of the beholder isnt it.

Once i picked the colours blind for a jewellery because i couln't make a decision :), that can get a nice creation too, and at least a fun experiment.

Cya

Aunty Akoya

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

abby_p — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:44:02 GMT

Hey Aunty Akoya,

I'm terrible with colors. Not color blind or anything (at least I don't think so) but can't mach/combine shades very well. So I cheat (gasp!) and use www.colorcombos.com to help me. It's meant for web design stuff but works a treat for dummies like me too.

much love,

Abby x

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

Aunty Akoya — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:25:14 GMT

Donna i did like the history about your car, that would be the perfect one for me :).

totaly agree, green and pink or peach is one of the greatest combinations..... .though there is a lot, could say that about lots and lots. ... all of them give me a hint of fairy tale/flowery romance feeling.

Tcwhit: is that maybe typical to like all colours with time, especially for someone who does some handicraft? the same for me.... yes colors choice is changing constantly at the moment with the moods. With green i like better again too, but its not totally back in the hitlist, only milky light greens i start to melt. had some periods in life with favorites, like green and lilac in my teens, then was the earthy colour and red period and so on.... now i like most colours, just one colour i couldn't get friends with until now, that was orange, but even that is getting better, thanks to friends who showed me how great it can look. for a long time i had a pink/rose/peach time, maybe because i wasn't allowed that colours when i was little, so its my beloved rebellish colour, think that will stay....see all parents over the world its not good to forbid things too much, the kids might catch up later ;).

simply a great wonder colours are, getting soppy now...

Beads Ahoy

Aunty Akoya

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

tcwhit — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:45:27 GMT

Aunty: when i was young and people would ask what is your favorite color, I would say purple. As the years went by I decided it was green. At this point in my life, i have no favorite color. I like them all. I can only choose a least favorite color which is pink. But i DO like pink, just not certain shades of it. Are you like that too? Your color choices change regularly?

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

Valbeads — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:10:22 GMT

I dunno, Donna, sounds like a fun medium to play with to me!

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

D.M.Z — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:36:52 GMT

LUCITE WOODWORK...........????? Oh, be still my heart, I think I'm going to faint here. Can you imagine it? You could put cute paper underneath it.......... oh, oh, oh. I wonder if there would be a market for it.... nah, I'd be the only ijit that would go for it. Donna

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

Valbeads — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:32:01 GMT

I know, TC! (lol) But Nome is the coldest place I can think of in this country, so I use it as an example when I'm whining about the cold! (lolol) OMG! You live in the Pocanos? You must be freezing your carcass off, too! At last! Somebody who knows where Vestal is! Yay! I live in Ross Corners, in West Vestal. We're going subzero tonight, hence my extra whininess.

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

tcwhit — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:03:20 GMT

Pink and green are good together. I've redone my nieces room in pink and green (really REALLY green). But I can never decide what my 3 rd color should be. It was black and yellow before (hated it) and I left some of the black there. It works, but for a kid I'd prefer a happier, brighter color. LOL guess clear paint is out of the question............ Lucite woodwork?

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

D.M.Z — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:58:03 GMT

Auntie and TC and Val..........thank you all. Strangely enough I seldom wear it, Pink is not my color until it gets more into the rose shades, richer and darker. I don't even own a pink t-shirt. I had my Lincoln (about 10 years ago that I bought for $500 because the clear coat was damaged and it looked like it had the mange) repainted in a Ford truck color that looked like sand until the light hit it the right way and then it had a definite pinkish cast. I saw the color and flipped for it, always called the car my Pink-in Lincoln which struck me funny as I normally wouldn't think about being caught dead in a pink car, but the Lincoln could handle it.......it was serene and impressive.

OK, so now I feel bad so I'll wear it tomorrow........... let's see how about purple sweats and t-shirt and a cream chamois shirt and the bracelet? OK, check.

I love greens and pink and/or peach together, but usually pair a lighter green with a richer pink/peach. Always been one of my fave color schemes. Now I am going to go on a search for some green delicas as I have a leaf pattern to try out................... emerald, emerald, emerald. Donna

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

Aunty Akoya — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:11:49 GMT

Beautiful works you two! Emerald....hmhm...

once all greens where my favorites, think i lost it a bit, if you show more pretty stuff like that it will grow on me again :).

Better give the bracelet to Val, i would and then make another one with lilacs ;)).

Greetings

Aunty Akoya

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

tcwhit — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:23:41 GMT

D-Oh I do like that. Very much indeed. I seem to always end up with an odd colour for a tiny pop of contrast. IE: The orange on my blue and green. INHO: That pink and gren I've mixed before, but can never decide on what that 'pop' should be. Now I see yours, the clear is a perfect choice!

V-no idea what you mean. Nome Alaska is the USA. And I know exactly what the temp is there. See "Pocono mtns" I live there and used to make regular runs to Binghamton, and have friends in Vestal

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

Valbeads — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:08:57 GMT

It's so pretty! Thank you for making something colorful and summery to take my mind off this horrible cold snap we're having. It got up to a balmy 16°F today, and right now, as of 6pm EST, is a whopping 7°F! You know, if I wanted to live in Nome, Alaska, I'd move there!!!! ARGH!!

I do my beady business right here in the good ol' US of A,, thankyouverymuch! I like to keep my American peeps in biz, plus I can't afford the crazy overseas s&h fees. Thanks for not hurting any pandas TC!(LOL)

Donna, your bracelet or your life! Give it to me now! (lol) It's so very lovely.

Re: Emerald(ish) First real stringing ( I think)

D.M.Z — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:39:01 GMT

TC, don't know how it will really look.........still playing with my new camera and haven't shot many pics with it yet. But attached to this. It was a pattern called Jitterbug and I don't remember the designer, but it didn't cost me much to buy. The thread path was extreme.......the clasp part took yards of thread because you just go back and forth, add a new layer and back and forth more......... It is like the bracelet that will never fail. Anyway, here it is in it's pink and emerald glory. Donna