If you belong to Gay Ann Roger's Yahoo Group, you've probably been riveted by the color and design discussion going on there. Color is a mystery to me. I don't understand the Color Magic I see going on when I stitch and I am always flummoxed when it comes to picking colors for charted designs.
Fortunately, there's Orna Willis, color-mad color wizard. Check out the photos on her blog!
http://www.ornadesign.blogspot.com/
She mentioned another blog with great photos and when I followed the link, I found Kris posts wonderful photos and then puts color stripes under them that show the colors in the image. It's a great source for discovering what colors you like (pick a photo, then look to see what colors it has) and choosing colors for a design if you are Color Idiot like me.
http://color-stripes.blogspot.com/
Monday, April 7, 2008
Cooper Oaks Trunk Show
Fireside Stitchery has a big group of Cooper Oaks photos on their website and plan to add more as they have a trunk show going from this designer. Cooper Oaks is well known for their beach canvases but they also have the fun canvas Girlfriends (right, page 6 on the website), belts, some nice loud Hawaiian shirts, and now an interesting alphabet series (starting on page 18) that has a giant letter and one thing that starts with it in a folk art style.
Have fun browsing!
main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow