Originally Posted by Shelley
I like your idea. Another would be use black, which would set off the colors nicely and give a 'frame' to the quilt.
i agree. black is an absence of color and therefore the colors within it appear to be trying to make that 'leap' out into the world. the colors then are very bright and glowing and trying to escape. it's like they are ready to burst. it's the black that contains and controls it. see? my parents didn't waste their money sending me to a fine arts college.
by the way, white does exactly the opposite: white is 'living' color. or the essence of color. for that reason, it has no control over color and allows colors to escape or leak out. for that reason colors lose some of their vitality or 'saturation' or 'depth' on a white ground. i don't know if i'm explaining this well enough. i hope so.
that's why when you see the same quilt design with a black or white ground, the black background makes the colors 'pop' so much more than the white.
have i confused everyone yet?