Recently my color wheel has gotten some attention. (Thanks DMC Blog!) I still plan to make this at some point. It's just too big and requires time to get the colors just right. If the colors aren't just right, I won't make it.
This smaller color wheel is exactly right. I love these colors and I'm very proud of this little guy.
This was originally going to be C for Color Wheel, but because the colors are so true my Art School Husband explained that these are really just hues. Primary and secondary. After some more investigation I learned that this is what is called additive color. The traditional artists paint palate and what we learned as kids. Blue/Yellow/Red. The more colors you add, the darker it gets. See the black middle.
The other type is used with light, like monitors and television sets. It's called Subtractive color. The more colors you add the lighter it gets. Hense, the white middle.
Interesting huh?
Anyway, here is the pattern. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Red - 666
Yellow - 307
Blue - 710
Orange - 740
Green - 909
Purple - 550
Black - 3799
Lettering - 3799
One more note -
I'm sure you noticed I didn't use black for black. I used the darkest gray. This is because I feel like the black (310) is thin. Maybe it's just me. But I feel like I can see more white when I use it. I wanted this to be very rich. Just my preference :)
Comment for a PDF. :)
This was the first one I did so It will be the first I give away. :)
I wanted something clean and simple and beautiful. First I was thinking about camera terms like aperture and f-stop and light meter. All things I want to play with in the future.
Naturally I then went to color and texture and tone and VALUE.
Value refers to the relative lightness or darkness of a certain area. Value can be used for emphasis.
Values are added to colors to create what you and I see as the different colors within true color. The difference between a powder pink and deeper rose pink.
Like this -
Depending on what website or book you look at the scale has a few or many light to dark shades. I settled on 5 for the sake of the piece.
The DMC colors are (left to right)
762, 415, 414, 371, 3799
The lettering works best as a middle gray. I didn't do this, but I think that was a mistake. I would suggest using 317.
As always, comment below for a pdf of the pattern and color selections.
Wish me luck!
This is likely going to become a series. Whether or not I do them ALL is something completely different. I want to design the rest of the alphabet. That would require me to read a lot more about design and color theory. That's much of the reason I want to do it.
These particular cards are for the Back to School Stitching Competition. I really enjoy this site and this idea.
I had a completely different design I was going to embroider having to do with cameras, I ditched the idea and started Value two days after my son was born. The deadline was 10/15 but got extended to 10/20 (thank you!) so that gave me "enough time" to do Hue also.
Stay tuned for the free patterns and color suggestions!
