Intensity is probably the least understood of the three elements of color (hue, value, and intensity). Intensity refers to how bright a color is: does it shock you into needing sunglasses? That’s an intense fabric. Does the fabric fade into the background so much you don’t even notice it? That’s [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2006’
Color Lesson 9: Using Value to Define the Design in Your Quilt
Value is the lightness or darkness of a hue. Value is essential to create enough contrast to recognize the design in your block and quilt. Without value contrast, your quilt blocks simply blend into one another without any recognizable design.
Value is not a color or a hue. It is how light or [...]
Color Lesson 8: Creating a Complementary Color Scheme
Complementary colors are those across from, or opposite each other on the color wheel. When you place complementary colors next to each other in a quilt, they have high contrast, meaning they stand out from one another. The classic complementary color scheme is red and green. Most of us gravitate toward that [...]
