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Exploring Colour by Julia Carpara is for all who want to explore colour and stitch creatively. The Colour School in each chapter offers an experimental approach to colour study and is a way of developing your expressive colour voice.

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Exploring Colour
Experimental Approaches to Colour and Stitch

Author: Julia Caprara
Pages: 80
Page size: 9"Wx11.5" H
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Exploring Colour will change your approach to colour forever and will give you the confidence to:

  • Develop your own personal voice and expressive skills
  • Paint and Stitches
  • Explore a subject in depth, extracting the essence of its colours and moods
  • Utilize the approaches through all your practical work.

The wonderful examples of Julia's colourful stitching will inspire readers to develop their own personal colour language.

About the Author

Julia Caprara is a towering figure in the world of textiles - a master of colour. This book introduces the language of colour in an accessible and straightforward way, allowing you to find your true colour sense. Julia's experimental approach will give you a grounding for a lifelong relationship with colour. The reader will learn ways to make colour their own by building on personal creativity with projects focused on sketchbook practice and storyboards Following on from each chapter is the "Colour School", a series of practical assignments and tasks which reinforce the message, offering fun ways of seeing and interpreting ideas.

Table of Contents

 
Chapter 1  
Colour and The World Around Us6
Colour School12
Chapter 2  
How Colour Works24
Colour School34
Chapter 3 
Painting with Stitches42
Colour School48
Chapter 4  
Making Colour Your Own66
Colour School70

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by Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
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Creative Quilts
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Design Explorations
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by Julia Caprana
Fearless Design
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New Canvaswork
by Jill Carter
Raising the Surface
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Stitching to Dye in Quilt Art
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by C June Barnes
Surfaces for Stitch
Surfaces for Stitch

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