[Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheel

[David Evans]

Dear All,

The color wheel will help you match colors that will go together 
and the color identifier will let you correctly identify the 
individual colors of items that you wish to match.
I can no longer recognize certain colors at all.
Red, Brown,Black and dark Blues all like alike to me now.
I can, on a clear day, still see that the sky is a light blue and 
the grass and trees are a green, but otherwise, everything is 
either a light or dark color.  I have only light and shadow 
vision left at this point.
I did love to draw and paint and even earned a BA degree and 
minor in Commercial Art.  I briefly studied under Norman Rockwell 
as a teenager.
I do miss being able to do that kind of work, but now I do other 
kinds of work instead.

David Evans,NFBF

Nuclear/Aerospace Materials Engineer
Builder of the Lunar Rovers and the F-117-A  Stealth Fighter


> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Annette Carr" <amcarr1 at verizon.net
>To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" 
<nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:21:03 -0400
>Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheel

>I am guessing that using a combination of a color wheel and a 
color
>identifier would be an incredible tool.  I've always wanted a 
color
>identifier, but never thought of pairing it with a color wheel.

>Just my 2 cents.
>Annette


>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
>[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
David Evans
>Sent: Sunday, March 30, 1980 6:56 PM
>To: List for blind crafters and artists
>Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheel



>Dear All,

>You can make your own Braille color wheel if you want to.  You 
can cut out a
>circle from cardboard and put a thumb tac in the middle and then 
glue some
>Brailled names of colors on it.  You just need to get them in the 
right
>places on the wheel.
>There are basically 5 major colors:  White and Black, which can 
be added to
>other major colors to lighten or darken them.  Put together, they 
make the
>color grey and shades there of.
>The primary colors are Red, Blue and Yellow.
>If you combine red and yellow you get Orange.
>If you combine Yellow and Blue, you get the color Green.  Combine 
Blue and
>Red and you get Purple.
>If you add a little more of one color or the other, you get 
different shades
>of that color, such as Blue-Green, Green-Blue,red-orange, 
orange-red,
>yellow-green, blue-violet and so on.

>Colors directly across the color wheel from each other, are 
called
>complimentary colors.  A good example of this are the colors Red 
and Green,
>the Xmas colors.
>This is what the color wheel does.  It helps you pick out colors 
that go
>with each other.
>This is why you should also stick with the same brightness or 
shades of
>colors you pick out to use.
>Light shades go with light shades and dark shades with dark ones.
>This rule is not hard and fast, but in general it holds true.

>There are also Turciary color combinations also that fall at 
equal spacing
>around the color wheel from each other, such as the primary 
colors do;
>Red,Yellow and Blue, or Orange, Purple and Green.
>If you are very blind, you should get someone, who you respect to 
help you
>or buy a good color identifier to help you.
>The color wheel is a tool for helping you to pick out colors even 
if you can
>not see them, but it is not fool-proof.
>This could be a good little item for Blind people to have to use 
in picking
>our color combinations for such things as clothing, painting 
rooms and other
>things when they do not have a sense of what colors look like.

>I hope this helps.

>David Evans
> someone to make and sell as a fund raiser for the didivisionb.

>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Nancy Yeager" <nancyyeager542 at comcast.net
>>To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'"
><nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>>Date sent: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:33:20 -0400
>>Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheel

>>Does anyone know where I can find a Braille or otherwise
>accessible color
>>wheel?  I have found some useful instructions on the net for
>using one and
>>think it might help with choosing colors for beading and other
>crafts.

>>Thanks.

>>Nancy Yeager








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