Challenge 34 - Texture/Pattern & Triad Colors

Challenge # 34 - Friday, June 26, 2009
Guest Hostess – Cynthia Ann Morgan
Challenge Description – Create a piece emphasizing texture and/or pattern in a triad color scheme. If you prefer to use only texture/pattern or only a triad color scheme rather than both in the same piece, that is fine, too

Color Concept: Triad

A triadic color scheme uses colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel. (red/blue/yellow; green/orange/purple; yellow-green/blue-violet/red-orange; and yellow-orange/red-violet/blue-green)
Triadic color harmonies tend to be quite vibrant, even if you use pale or unsaturated versions of your hues.
To use a triadic harmony successfully, the colors should be carefully balanced - let one color dominate and use the two others for accent. Or use shades and tones of the colors to tone it down.
http://www.color-wheel-artist.com/triad-colors.html
http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/ColorSchemes/index.htm

Composition Concept: Texture/Pattern

From The Quilter’s Book of Design by Ann Johnston:
“Pattern and texture are often used interchangeably because a pattern may give a surface the appearance and because textures have a distinct repeating arrangement that creates a pattern. Pattern is a repetitive design with the same motif appearing in a predictable way. The repetition of the motif, color, value, line, shape, or texture, however does not necessarily have to be identical to create a pattern”

You can use pattern to set a mood, add interest in areas of a design, to unify a design, to show depth. You can use the quilting line to create pattern.

Texture is the nature of a material’s surface. It can be tactile textile (you can feel the texture) or visual texture (it looks like texture, but it actually smooth…like a fabric that looks like rock). You can use texture to suggest movement and add dimension as well as the main use – to create visual interest and variety. Quilting adds lots of texture as do embellishments of all kinds

http://gigaweb.brigantine.atlnet.org/ARTiculationFinal/MainPages/TextureMain.htm
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/pattern.html
http://daphne.palomar.edu/design/texture.html
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/encyc_texturetypes.html
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/pattern.html