[Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheels.

[Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]]

The way you all are talking about color, is just how I feal about print.  I have tunnel vision and if the print is to big, I have to scan the letter to identify it, but if it is to small, I can not see all of its features to tell what it is.  Just like you are talking about colors, how can a sighted person see a whole word at one time!  This has always been a mistory to me.
My favorite colors are blue, pink and red. I have always liked water and the color of flowers.  These colors are easy to coordinate.  Until lately, I hardly ever bought purple.  I did not care for it and some times had trouble telling it from blue.  I like dark blue, black, gray and tan, for pants, because they are nutral.  They will go with almost anything.  I have shrunk out of my tan and gray pants and have not found any in the store.
I like walls to be white or off white.  It is a lot easier to change a spread or the cover on a piece of furniture than to coordinate your furnature to go with your walls.  What if you get tired of the walls, it is sure more expensive to paint the walls.
You can also decorate with colorful pillows and change them when you want.  
Let your crafts decorate your home.

Terry P.
   

-----Original Message-----
From: River Woman [mailto:riverwoman at zoominternet.net] 
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 4:28 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheels.

What a great idea Eileen. I taught color theory for many years at the college. This is the very first thing a person learns when taking their first painting class.  I always spent the first three weeks of the semester doing color theory projects with the students before any painting began. We worked in black and white for two weeks to explore the possibilities, then moved to the color chart and color wheel and did projects using paints. 
After all that, then we began a "painting."  It is the structure on which a painting begins.  We learned what colors do to each other when mixed together in varying amounts. Some of the results were a total surprise - unexpected results.

I wonder, if a person has never had sight, how do they have any idea what a color is?  This is a mystery to me.
Lynda
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From: "Eileen Scrivani" <etscrivani at verizon.net>
To: <Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 3:23 PM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheels.


> You know what I think would be a good/helpful tool for any blind 
> person, not just blind crafters?  An accessible color wheel something 
> with Braille on it that as you turn it to one color it would be 
> labeled in Braille with the color and then show on the other end the 
> colors that either coordinate or contrast with the one selected.  At 
> least this is how I think the color wheels work.  Before loosing my 
> sight, I never saw a color wheel so am not 100% sure how they work but 
> if I understand it correctly, believe they are useful tools for designers in picking out color choices.
>
> Eileen
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