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Color Mastery: 10 Principles for Creating Stunning Quilts by Maria Peagler offers over 50 proven techniques to achieve brilliant color with your stash. Follow the map—the 10 principles—and your quilts will be transformed from blah to brilliant!
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Color Mastery
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Back Cover InformationTranscend "matching to the focus fabric" and instead develop your own imaginative color combinations. Whether you are a traditional quilter trapped in a color rut or an art quilter looking for a deeper understanding of color, this book is your essential guide for a revolutionary new way of approaching color in your quilts. Join Maria Peagler, award-winning fine art quilter, author and instructor as she teaches you:
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| Part One: Color Mastery Workbook | |
| Chapter 1: Orientation to Color Mastery | 3 |
| Ten Principles of Color Mastery | 6 |
| Color Mastery for All Fiber Artists | 6 |
| Top Ten Color Myths for Quilters | 6 |
| Adopting a Playful Attitude About the Color | 8 |
| Color Wheel, Rotary Cutter and Sewing Machine: They're All Just Tools | 8 |
| Beyond the Color Wheel | 8 |
| Basic Color Harmonies | 9 |
| Sophisticated Color Harmonies | 9 |
| Your Color Journal | 9 |
| Effortless Projects, Sophisticated Colors | 10 |
| Disguising Leftovers | 10 |
| Chapter 2: Keeping a Color Journal | 11 |
| Understanding Color Relationships | 11 |
| Creating a Color Journal | 11 |
| Exercise: Stocking Up for Your Color Journal Kit | 13 |
| Giving Yourself Permission to Make a Mess | 13 |
| Chapter 3: Uncovering the Secret to Stunning Color Combinations | 15 |
| Using the Color Wheel to Understand Color Relationships | 15 |
| Discovering the Three Elements of Color | 16 |
| Breaking Down a Color into the Three Elements | 16 |
| Understanding a Minor element in Color Relationships | 18 |
| Using the Color Wheel in a Completely New Way for Quilters | 18 |
| Top Ten Stash Building Tips | 19 |
| Chapter 4: Mastering Hue - The Celebrity Element | 21 |
| Exercise: Identifying Hues from Fabric Swatches | 21 |
| Using the color Wheel to Master Hue | 21 |
| Exercise: Creating Color Wheel from Your Own Fabric Stash | 22 |
| Variation: Creating Color Wheels for Different Fabric Designs | 24 |
| Artist's Secret: The Key Behavior of Outstanding Artists | 24 |
| Where are Black, White, Brown and Gray? | 25 |
| Artist's Secret: The Impressionists' Surprising Use of Neutrals | 26 |
| Discovering the Six Color Harmonies | 26 |
| Exercise: making color Harmonies from Your Stash | 28 |
| Artist's Secret: Capitalizing on the Three Bears Rule of Color | 30 |
| Chapter 5: Mastering Value | 31 |
| Exercise: Identifying Values from Fabric Swatches | 31 |
| Using the Color Wheel to Master Value | 31 |
| Artist's Secret | 32 |
| Exercise: Creating a Value Wheel | 33 |
| Artist's Secret: How to Successfully Use Yellow | 36 |
| Chapter 6: Mastering Intensity | 37 |
| Exercise: Identifying Intensities | 38 |
| Using the color Wheel to Master Intensity | 38 |
| How to Use an Intensity Wheel to Create a Rich Quilt | 38 |
| Exercise: Creating an Intensity Wheel from Your Stash | 39 |
| Exercise: Discerning the Color Elements | 40 |
| Chapter 7: What Every Quilt Needs | 41 |
| It's All About the Harmony | 41 |
| Exercise: Discerning Your Intuitive Harmony | 41 |
| Artist's Secret Harmony | 42 |
| It's Even More About the Contrast | 43 |
| Top Ten Color Mastery tips | 47 |
| Part Two: Making the Color Mastery Quilts | |
| Chapter 8: Basic Color Harmony Projects | 51 |
| Analogous Color Harmony | 52 |
| Complementary Color Harmony | 54 |
| Using Neutrals for their Value in a Quilt | 60 |
| Chapter 9: Sophisticated Color Harmony Projects | 62 |
| Triadic Color Harmony | 64 |
| Split-Complement Color Harmony | 67 |
| Double-Complement Color Harmony | 71 |
| Round-Robin Color Harmony | 74 |
| Chapter 10: Creating Your Own Color Harmony | 76 |
| Inspiration | 76 |
| Design | 76 |
| Contrast | 77 |
| Hue, Value or Intensity | 77 |
| Role of Your Color Journal | 77 |
| Project: Cottage Garden Quilt | 78 |
| Table: Custom Color Harmony | 78 |
| Table: Creating Your Own Color Harmony | 80 |
| Chapter 11: Frequently Asked Questions About Color | 81 |
| Appendices | 84 |
| At-Home Color mastery Retreat | 84 |
| Miniature Color Wheel | 85 |
| Color Harmony chart | 89 |
| Color Harmony by Contrast | 90 |
| Templates | 91 |
| Color Wheel | 93 |
| Bibliography | 94 |
| About the Author | 95 |
| Index | 96 |
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