Thread: How do you pick your colours
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Old 02-10-2015, 02:12 PM
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Jan in VA
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In a workshop I teach on choosing colors for quilts, one technique I use is to find a picture/photograph of something that appeals to you....a garden, a landscape, a designed room, sunsets, even an advertisement. Pull fabrics that seem to match or blend with colors in that picture as your inspiration.
For example, I once saw this picture of native women selling fruit and fell in love with the bright happy colors. I designed some blocks then pulled fabrics that picked up on the same feel as the picture. Here is the result of a couple of them.
Can you see which parts of the picture influenced the color choices in the blocks?

Jan in VA
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