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| Laura demonstrates a lot of smart fine-art color methods using a fiber-arts approach. |
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I love color but I have to stop myself from rolling my eyes
when talk circles around to the color wheel. Snore! We all know the deal with
the color wheel. No need to rehash, right? Right.
And yet, here I am having to eat crow because Laura Bryant's
DVDs and workshop videos put a new spin on color for me and made a lot of
things click.
Laura is a deep-down colorist who specializes in hand-dying
fiber and yarn, but her knowledge comes from a fine arts perspective. In A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color and A Knitter's Guide to Color, Laura shows
how color effects really play out—how colors behave and how our eyes perceive
them.
Laura is basically teaching peeps to train their
artistic talents in the realm of color, and I'm totally on-board. She
demonstrates all her methods using ColorAid paper—reference cards that are
really great to use when you want to play around with color combinations before
you pull out the paints.
I picked up a trick from her that fashion designers and
knitters actually use having to do with sorting color, plus a few clever
techniques on recognizing color relationships. So yes, I have to admit (wince) that
in Laura's hands there is more to learn about the color wheel, but being wrong (double
wince) never felt so good. Enjoy!
