Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Wood 1026 Advanced Finishing: working our color theory with dyes


"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
-Abigail Adams

The color theory never leaves us, we just get the opportunity to apply it differently. We are in advanced finishing (Wood 1026) and we are, once again, matching colors, but this time we are using dyes instead of pigments. We are still using our color wheel and going about the process the same way to match the hue, value and chroma of the color, only the materials have changed. Exercises like this really solidify color theory and give us a greater understanding of the materials we are using.