Wednesday 17 October 2012

Challenge#91 and colour schemes

I was thrilled to read on the Diva's blog about the "Beads of Courage" organisation for children with a chronic illness. For each special achievement, needle, doctors appointment, xray etc, the child is given a bead. These are collected and put together at a special time, when the events can be recalled for which they were given, and great encouragement given to the child in the process. Laura's son Artoo, belongs to Beads for Courage,  and has just turned two. Our design this week is to celebrate his birthday and this wonderful organisation.
I had just purchased a set of 12 Prismacolour watercolour pencils so tried them out to colour it. The original looks better than this!

The last two nights I have been working on the colour chart I gave in my last post. I just couldn't put it away! Colour seems to do that to me!!. On the first half page I drew a zentangle, then coloured it with each particular colour scheme. When I had finished I thought, "Uh oh, this looks rather complicated. It might put some people off doing the exercise!" So on the other side I made a very simple string to divide up the bars. Another idea is to do simple abstract designs individually across the bars, as I did on the "Tertiary Colour Wheel" sheet for Sunday, 14 October 2012's post.



Seeing all the colour together can be rather confusing. Next job therefore is to make a "window" sheet, so you only see one colour scheme at a time, as shown below. Prismacolour pencils were used for this exercise.



9 comments:

  1. What a playful, colorful piece. Like your color scheme. May have to copy it for future reference.

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  2. OH - I'm going to have to come back to your colour posts - am deep in colour homework! I need more hours & greater computer skills &........ thank you for being excited about the possibilities & sharing.........
    Paula (PEP)

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  3. Artoo will be happy to see how you have given him this lovely beaded greeting!

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  4. I love your square beads with such good values and dimension. Love the color charts, too.

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  5. your beads demonstrate a lot of fun with color! The color charts look "fun" too, but way beyond me...

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  6. Beautiful beads, especially the letter ones. Your coloring sheets are great. It helps me a lot to do some coloring of my one. Hope you will post more of these.

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  7. i still need to work on those color sheets. i am doing something similar for this watercolor pencil class i'm taking.
    your tile for Artoo is sweet and precious. i think Artoo would like the colors and the fact that it has name in it :)

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  8. What a wonderful contribution. I love your coloring sheets!! I plan to one day begin incorporating color into my zentangles...I am just a newbie at all this ;)

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