http://maggiemaggio.com/color blog for the color curious Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:58:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Treat yourself to a box of 64 crayons and clear some space in your studio.  Its time for the return of Saturday School! Starting next Saturday, September 11th, I will be expanding on the exercises in Lindly's and my book, Color Inspirations.  Last year we covered Chapters 1 to 5.  This year ... http://maggiemaggio.com/color/?p=1371 The first round of color scales I made used two primary colors, for example Red to Yellow.  It didn't take long before I started making value scales - taking a color to a white and then taking a color to a black. After awhile, I started making color scales using complementary colors to find ... http://maggiemaggio.com/color/?p=1316 Taking some time to make and document color mixes is the best way to learn how to mix colors instinctively.  Playing scales on the piano trains the ear, making color mixes trains the eye. Color scales are my favorite way to record my color mixes but I encourage you to come up ... http://maggiemaggio.com/color/?p=1282   The idea for the Color Scales came when I was struggling to keep track of all the test mixing I was doing when I first started using polymer clay in the mid '90's.   I decided there had to be a better way to organize all the little bits of clay and tried ... http://maggiemaggio.com/color/?p=1276