Color Play, Second Edition: Over 100 New Quilts—Transparency, Luminosity, Depth & More

by Joen Wolfrom

Joen Wolfrom's classic guide to creating with color has been completely updated to make it even easier to enhance your creative work with the beauty of well-chosen colors. Joen covers it all, from color combining basics to how to use nature's tricks to create an illusion of depth, reflections, shadows, and highlights. Learn the emotional and physical effects of colors and much more—all richly illustrated with photos of nature and of 100 beautiful quilts. This must-have reference shows tints, shades, and tones for all 24 colors in the Ives Color Wheel, plus five different color schemes for each color.

Genres: Quilting

406 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2014

Reviews

[Maureen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book can be used for several different mediums: I will use what I learned for fabric art and painting. I did not know primary colors are no longer just red, blue and yellow but research has found a new color wheel (Ives) to maximize the use of colors whether it is monochromatic, complementary, or split complimentary. The book gives many photographic examples of quilts to explain the element of color use and design. It also gives basic instructions how to improve fabric art and landscape quilts (ie. use of perspective and shadows). It does take quite a bit of time to look back though pages to see the identified quilts explaining the concepts but it was time well spent. If you are looking to improve your art through the elements of design this book is highly recommended.

[Sheila · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book very educational and inspirational, providing lots of ideas for color play in my quilt blocks to make them better, to make some sections pop and give the block dimension!