Color Wheel Master!

hi guys I'm Jenna single I'm the prank Cal girl and I'm going to talk to you a little bit about how to use the color wheel to get even more enjoyment out of designing your quilts so let's get started along the edge are all the pure colors these are the most saturated colors they are the pure colors that is right here on the color wheel you can turn this to make your main color any color that you want that's your pure colors the lighter side has had white added to it in graduating lighter amounts in other words more white has been added more white and taking it down here to the center which is nearly white so every single color that you choose on the tint side t int on the tint side it's gonna take it lighter and lighter and lighter till it gets to the lightest on the color wheel if you flip it over the dark side you'll see that it graduates from light to dark and that's because they begin to add black to it the tones which are the first three colors have got a gray added to it to tone it down so it kind of mutes the colors from the third one down to the bottom it's just adding black to it and that's that part of the color wheel is going to be called the shades so you have the shades the tones you turn it over and you have the tints the next bit of information on the color wheel is going to be just to describe the warm colors versus the cool colors they're very easy to see the warm colors look like fire so right here it says warm colors and an arrow going that way over here it says warm colors and arrow going this way so your warm colors are going to be basically colors of fire this side that we're on is the tints the light colors so these are the light warm colors over here we're still on the light side of the wheel these are the light cool colors the cool colors are the colors of grass and water if you turn it over to the deeper tones you're also going to have the same thing it's gonna say your warm colors start here and go across your cool colors start here and go across so these are your deep-toned warm colors deep-toned cool colors the next thing we're going to talk about about the color color wheel is what's called color theory color theory states that there's only two ways to use color in any project so think about that for a second if there's only two ways to use color in a project what are those ways because it seems like there would be hundreds of ways to use color in a project well I'll tell you there's only two ways to use color because there's only the ability to contrast color or to harmonize color contrasting colors are going to be lively and they're going to attract a lot of attention whereas harmonizing colors are going to be more sort of the wind beneath the wings of your quilt your your harmonizing parts of your quilt are going to lay sort of like in the crowd so that you're contrasting colors in a block can really shine out in designing a quilt if you have ever had the perfect quilt in your head but then whenever you get it finished there's competing there's so much competition going on in the quilt that air you can tell that you tried to make every single block stand out as a star and sometimes that's what happens when we don't realize that harmony in a has its place let's say you want this yellow orange and the direct complementary color to that is violet blue these two colors these colors used together or or next to each other are going to become the Hollywood stars of that quilt so keep that in mind whenever you get ready to use that and to remember it it says so right here complementary is straight across wherever you put it it's straight across from there so if you don't want to use the most complementary or the most opposite or most contrasting colors on the color wheel say you want to use this yellow orange but you really think it'd be a little bit too much to go and just use these two colors right here to be your main colors you might think that's a little bit too showy so you might want to say I think I'll do I'll do it with showy but not quite as showy and the way you achieve that is you get your same yellow oranges but instead of going straight across you just don't use that one that's hard to do you just don't use that one you do these two okay you use blue violet and blue as opposed to using direct complementary and that's called a split complementary because you go down here to the complementary you don't use it but you split off okay so you can see that this is going to be a little bit less noticeable you can use either of these or both of these by using both of these that's going to create a mini harmony that's going to point to this but it's not going to scream this does that make sense I hope it does you're going to have a mini harmony here because harmony is 3 to 5 3 to 5 that are adjacent to each other 3 to 5 colors that touch each other this is going to be a little bit less showy than this is going to be and it's called split complementary and it's this triangle right here the small triangle wherever you put this it's going to show you let's try the green-yellow the split complementary of green yellow is violet red and violet so those are going to be less showy than if you just went straight and use these two colors together the third way of using contrast colors on the color wheel is the Triad and the Triad is shows right here it's this triangle and it says triad the triangle is the Triad and wherever you put wherever you turn the color wheel the Triad is going to have equal number of spaces between one color the second color and the third color and the Triad is going to have five colors in between so the Triad here is green blue violet red orange yellow in a triad let me show you an example of what a triad is if we put the the pure color pointer on blue the triad for blue is going to be actually the three primary colors blue yellow red that's the three primary colors that show on the color wheel and anywhere else that you move it now the three primary colors being blue yellow and red and if you want to go to secondary colors because everybody knows that blue and yellow makes green if you take it to the green here because you see here's yellow here's blue and 50 50% mix ends up being green which is what we learned in first grade and that that secondary color can be placed on any of the secondary colors and it will show the other three the other two so here's green violet and orange and you know that red and yellow make orange and red and blue make purple so that triad is just pointing that out now if you want to change it to right over there too green blue green has a triad of yellow orange and red violet now the reason I bring up triad more than the others well the Triad is so nice it is almost it's a it's almost a harmony of contrasts if there's such a thing it's not a harmony where nothing is noticed but it's a gentle it's a gentle contrast and it may be the most gentle contrast that there is because here would be your real contrast your strong contrast a triad works so well with fabric because this gives you block after block after block of choices you can have your viewers say this is the three colors you choose you can have your blue green blocks and you can have a touch of red violet a touch of orange then the next block you might have more of red violet with a touch of this blue green and a touch of yellow orange these three colors are going to gently gently pop they're not going to they're not going to pop right off of the quilt but they're going to look like just a nice flow most of the time a stash quilt where you get rid of a lot of your pieces are going to have that kind of little pop it's going to have the colors that are in a triad the other colors will be in there but the main part of the the quilt will be that triad there's a nice yellow green and this is the red orange with it and keep in mind you can go all the way down to here you know all the way down to here so if you chose a yellow green fabric that had this color but in this tent up here you can also choose any of these colors in any of the tints so that you might want to intensify the red orange in one block and d-10 sapphire that's a word the red orange in another block in the same with the blue violet in the same way with the green so when you're designing a quilt the Triad is a wonderful way to design a block quilt alright so we've discussed all three types of contrasts there's direct contrast which is called the complementary on your color wheel there's the split contrast which is the small triangle and refers to one color plus it's split the split complementary that you can use and then of course we heard the about the Triad now the next part we're going to stop talking right now about contrasting and now we're going to talk about the ones that are the harmonies hi harmony sounds like it would be very straightforward and it is in a way you take three to five colors that are adjacent with the to each other on the color wheel and that's a harmony the thing is there's pretty harmonies and the way that the pretty harmonies are found is you look for the parent color here's your yellow parent color and here's an orange parent color here's a red parent color a blue parent color and a violent parent color now the reason I think of this as being parent colors is if I'm going to use three colors you can look here and you can see yellow orange yellow yellow orange but when you get to Orange these are pretty these were these are more like contrasting colors so the way you think about harmony is you find your parent color that you want like yellow and you go three to five colors on either side or both sides of that and and what you want to do is keep its parent name in it so here's yellow I don't know if you can see that real good here's the yellow here's the green yellow and the yellow green here is orange yellow and yellow orange that's the five one two three four five that's the five harmonies in the yellow family they all say yellow somewhere we'll do the red the red family this is what a color wheel is so great about because you can take this color wheel to the fabric store with you and you can see if it goes if it falls outside the scope of what your harmony would be so here's red let's say red and you want a family color of reds so your choices are in the red harmony family are red orange red red orange but if you get to orange over here that's that can be very competitive with the red very competitive so you leave that part out so now we're just going to be to the red orange so you have red orange orange red red violet red red violet and don't include the violet that's a harmony of reds because the the parent red is in all of those if you were to go on over to the purple your you're going to be confused and your quilt is going to look confusing because are you going with the purple are you going with the purple the violet family colors or are you going with the red family colors as long as there's quite a bit of red in that violet that's your nice harmony the minute you start going on farther and adding more purple to it or going on farther and adding more orange adding orange to the family all of a sudden it doesn't look like a family anymore it looks confusing and that's what happens with quilt layout sometime and then you say you know this just looked prettier in my head and that's why you've added too far over to be harmony of colors so the items that we've been discussing the complimentary the split complementary that triad and the harmonies those are all color schemes and the color schemes are described right here on the color wheel the next color scheme that we're going to talk about is monochromatic monochromatic just means you're going to choose one color any pure color and you're going to say say say there's red violet is your one pure color that you want to use now to make a monochromatic quilt you would take every fabric in your quilt except for maybe if you wanted to add white and black to it but in the only color in your quilt would be different shades tints and tones of that one red violet you you know but take to do this very well but you can start with your pure color and you can choose fabrics that have got that very same color in it only they're darker or they're more muted or they are lighter so this one was the red violet and you would come right over here and all the all the spectrum of the lights would be included in that choice for a color design everything that started with this primary right here you might find florals or stripes or whatever you want but they would be that one single pure color just in all different shades tones and tints of that color and that's called your monochromatic they're just your monochromatic type of harmony now now right here would be a good place to show you that on the color wheel because the color wheel was made 300 years ago on the color wheel they're calling harmony analogous okay so harmony is analogous on the color wheel just like complimentary is contrast on the harmonies harmony is analogous they don't really call it harmony like we do these days so that it that means the same now the last color scheme on the that's described on the color wheel is the analogous complementary the analogous complementary it's the Harmony contrast that's a that's a shared scheme and it's a wonderful scheme it shares a contrast with some harmony that color scheme is easier told than shown because these have got these have got some gray here that you can't really see under so analogous complementary is where you take the three to five harmonies and we're going to take what we've been talking with a matter of fact I'm going to go to the light so you can see better we're going to take blue we're going to take blue and the harmonies are three to five harmonies as we talked about but in analogous complementary you're only going to use three of them three harmony colors so here's your blue I'm going to take the harmonies over here and I'm going to say I would like to do these three harmonies okay I might say with the blue I'd like to do these three harmonies but I want blue okay so you're going to choose any of the three adjacent colors as harmony harmony threesome there now you can choose any of these three any one of those three and you're going to take the complimentary to just one of them you're going to end up with four colors in that block or in that quilt it's going to be three as a harmony and then you're going to say I would like to use the contrast that matches say this violet blue the harmony for that I mean the contrast for that harmony of the violet blue is straight straight down here to the yellow orange but you don't have to choose the yellow orange you can choose once again any of the three you can choose their contrast any of the three so say you want to go straight down from the blue violet that's where this gray is kind of in the way so if you want to say the blue violet you need to go ahead and just take a peek at it that way the blue violets contrast is the orange yellow okay put it back over here to the to the blue and say the plain blue its contrast is down here and that's the orange underneath there it's a little hard to describe on the color wheel but it's just take three harmonies and any one of the contrasts that matches is the the other fourth color that you'll use in that block or that quilt I hope that that I've helped you to understand the color wheel a little bit more than you did before the tutorial I'm going to show you in real life how this can work with your quilts here is the center medallion of the codes of the Underground Railroad quilt that I'm making and as you can see this is a this is a pretty dark toned but contrasting type of Center medallion so what I did I took the three the three harmonies that I wanted to use and that was these three right here that's the green blue-green and green-blue and I paired that those colors the harmony with this contrast which is orange red and you can see how this the sinner just pops with those three colors used with that this block isn't it as an example of a triad you can see that it is the red violet shows the pinks in here the deep pinks so it has red violet the yellows and the green blues in it so that's a perfect example of a triad and these fabrics together are a pretty good representation of what harmony would do in a quilt here's a color here's a little swatch this happens to be an embroidery that I did but if you notice it uses the complementary colors of the blue and orange and you see how this see how the orange pops right out and you see how the the colors that are in the in the background and these I can't really describe that as anything except the wind beneath their wings the the the story of this piece is turquoise and orange the ones that just kind of hang out and make the turquoise and orange look so wonderful are this soft it's a very light avocado in this little bit of lavender so that's one way that these work together to let these show off now the last example is going to be the example of how shabby-chic works they took a red tone brought it down to a dusty rose tone and then it came right across and added the dusty greens to it so you can use the whole spectrum spectrum of all of the greens hi guys this was not one of the most fun videos I've ever done but I hope you did learn something about the color wheel and if you did I hope you'll give me a thumbs up and subscribe and send it to your friends thanks bye bye

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Length: 23min 40sec (1420 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 16 2015