2 More Color Wheels : Candied Fabrics Dye Class

 

I finished the color wheels from the Earth and Sky Triads.  It took a week to dye the swatches, and another day to whip up the color wheels.  It was a worthwhile exercise, that forced me to really look at the Candiotic Table.  I feel like I have a whole new relationship with the Tables now that I've looked at them so closely in order to decide what colors to include on the wheels.

Here's they Sky Triad in 2 configurations  (on paper) :

Here's the Earth Triad.  These came out so dark on the blue end, that it might be worth doing this one on the Tints Lesson.  The shades would just be black, black and more black.

I took a common garden variety glue stick and glued the swatches to a piece of creme-colored card stock (because that's what I had on hand).  It occurs to me that a color wheel should probably be on plain white, not cream so as not to distort the colors.   Oh well ....

If you're interested in learning how to do this, Sign up here for the online class with Candy G. at Candied Fabrics.  This is from the Controlling Color 101 Class.   I still have 1 more lesson to do, covering tints and shades. 

See the Color Wheels for the Naturals and Brights Triads.

Color Wheels : Candied Fabrics Lesson 7

 Here is the 25-inch square Color Wheel from the Brights triad.  

The Big Circles are the Primary Colors.

The Big Squares are the Secondaries.

The smaller Trapezoids are Tertiary colors.

In this recommended layout, each color should be an even step-wise gradation.  This layout makes it easier to see those steps.  The big lesson here is that an even step to the eye is not always the same as an even step gradation with the mixing formulas.  You'd think you'd be able to use the Candiotic Table and pick the Primaries in the corners, then halfway between for Secondairies, then halfway between those for tertiaries.  It doesn't quite work out that way visually speaking.  Some colors overpower the others.

 

Here's an example of the 7-inch swatches dyed for the color wheel, and where they live on the Candiotic Table.  There's a noticeable concentration in the Yellow corner because just a little red or Turquoise goes a long way to changing Lemon Yellow.  

 Here's the smaller 8-1/2 x 11-inch color wheel on paper.  This makes it more portable.  If I make the other wheels, I think I'll just go with the paper, since it's a lot easier to simply write the color recipe next to the color swatch.

 I decided to try a couple other layouts for color wheels.  I know why Candy chose the configuration she did (to show the even steps between Primary - Secondary - and Tertiary colors).  I think these layouts show the relationships between Primary-Secondary-Tertiary, but it's harder to see the even step-wise gradations between them :

 

Here's a photo of my 7-inch swatches fresh from the rinse bucket.  

They caught the sun so nicely, I had to take a photo!