{"id":2014,"date":"2011-06-18T11:40:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T04:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?page_id=2014"},"modified":"2019-03-05T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:02:17","slug":"color-inspirations-7-part-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/workshops\/tutorials\/color-inspirations-exercises\/color-inspirations-7-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Tasting Tiles (p.59)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tasting<\/a>The rally was lots of fun. Pioneer Courthouse Square was filled to the\u00a0brim\u00a0with people carrying 350 banners. I love my city!<\/p>\n

Here are my Kato tasting tiles, including four muds made with equal parts of the various\u00a0three primaries. The set-up for the muds is different from the book. I cut the squares of each primary color\u00a0in half diagonally.<\/p>\n

Note that even though I am taking these photos under full spectrum lights, they are not totally accurate. The blues are especially hard to capture.<\/p>\n

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Analyzing the Tiles<\/strong><\/p>\n

I can tell just by looking at my collage that I probably won’t be using Magenta. It doesn’t appear in my collage and doesn’t make\u00a0the secondary mixes\u00a0I need.<\/p>\n

Just for fun, I cut up a copy of\u00a0my collage that appears in\u00a0the book.\u00a0 I was curious to see how much of each\u00a0primary and secondary\u00a0hue there would be. It turns out\u00a0\"tasting<\/a>that\u00a0in my collage there\u00a0are some slightly muted greens, a larger section of blues,\u00a0lots of red orange and oranges, and a very large section of yellows\u00a0with a\u00a0good amount of ochres. There are no\u00a0clear purples.\u00a0\u00a0Instead of purples, there are many dark eggplant browns that match the Kato purples made with Kato Red.<\/p>\n

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Choosing Primaries<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"tasting<\/a>If I was going to use Kato clay to match colors to my collage, I could rule out using Magenta very quickly.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Red will give me the oranges and the eggplant purples that I need so its the better choice.\u00a0\u00a0Since there is only one yellow, the big question is – which blue should I use? I would choose\u00a0Kato Blue instead of the Turquoise because the greens I want are a little bit muddy.\u00a0\u00a0I also like the dark brown mud that results from using the Blue. The tasting tiles helped me confirm that the Kato primaries for this collage\u00a0are the traditional Red, Yellow, and Blue.\u00a0 The colors I mix with these three primaries will give me a palette that matches my collage.<\/p>\n

Weekend Extra Exercises<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Make a color copy of your collage and cut it up into color swatches. Don’t be too picky – stick to just the six hue families and one or two mud colors.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Sort the swatches\u00a0into\u00a0hue families and glue them onto a piece of 11″ x 17″ poster board. Because you will lose some of the collage as you cut and because you’ll end up overlapping some of the piece, you will probably only cover about 3\/4 of the board.<\/p>\n

3. Look at all the variations in each of the hue families. How much hue,\u00a0value and saturation\u00a0range is there?<\/p>\n

TIPS<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you use more than one brand of clay, be sure to mark your tasting tiles with the brand.<\/p>\n

If your white clay is crumbly out of the package,\u00a0cut a\u00a0slice of\u00a0white that is the same thickness as your\u00a0tasting tiles. Then you don’t have to make a snake. Just use the circle cutter to cut pieces\u00a0from the slice to mix with the pieces cut from the center of the tasting tile.<\/p>\n

Look at\u00a0both the untinted and tinted parts of the tasting tiles to determine which primaries make the colors that match your collage.<\/p>\n

When I was cutting up my collage I used small envelopes for each of the hue families. This kept all the little pieces from flying away or getting lost on the table in my studio. (Easy to do given the mess!)<\/p>\n

FAQs<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Why limit the clays to just\u00a0three primaries?<\/p>\n

We suggest starting this way so that you can learn how to mix colors using the fewest package colors. Sometimes you need more than three to get the colors you need and sometimes its just easier to start with a package color for each of the six hue families. That’s OK.<\/p>\n

2. Can I use black if its in my collage?<\/p>\n

I like to use a mixed black instead of a package black but if you have lots of\u00a0pure black in your collage then you can use package black.<\/p>\n

3. What should I do if I can’t decide between two primaries?<\/p>\n

You can mix the two primaries together or you can choose to use both for your palette. There are no fixed rules. The goal is to be able to mix colors to match your collage.\u00a0 A little exploration goes a long way toward making color mixing much easier.<\/p>\n

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