[Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheel

[Nancy Yeager]

Dear David,

If you still want to try your hand at drawing, you might want to use a
screen board.  It's just a clipboard that has been covered with window
screen.  If you tape the edges around the clipboard your screen will stay
secure and not fray.  If you put paper or the page of a sketch pad on top of
the screen board and draw, you can feel whatever you draw.  

Nancy Yeager
 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Evans
Sent: Monday, March 31, 1980 8:07 AM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheel


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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