{"id":12716,"date":"2016-09-26T10:15:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T16:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=12716"},"modified":"2016-09-27T13:35:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T19:35:01","slug":"not-quite-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/not-quite-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite White"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kchapman-pendant-tassels\"<\/a>If you’ve had a chance to read through your latest Fall issue of The Polymer Arts<\/em><\/a>, you may have enjoyed the Color Spotlight article on Sonya Girodon whose work also graces the cover. In the article, our writer, Lindly Haunani, brought up an interesting point about working with white. She noted that Sonya’s work is rarely pure white but is rather just a touch off from white, being mildly cool or warm in color. To illustrate this, she included an image created with pastels over a variety of lightly colored washed\u00a0paper, showing how pastel colors shift depending on what off-white paper they\u00a0are placed on. It brings home the idea that moving beyond pure white can\u00a0add richness and change the look or mood of the colors around it\u00a0and the work itself\u00a0simply by choosing to go a little cool or a little warm with the white.<\/p>\n

Here is an example of going warm. Warm means the color exists on or leans\u00a0into the warm color side of the spectrum. Warm colors include red, orange and yellow (think of the colors of fire and the sun) which in an off-white include things like ecru, beige, pale pink and other whites heading towards browns. This is the palette that Australia’s Kelly Chapman<\/a> chose for this particular tasseled pendant of hers. The near whites give way to a couple of variations\u00a0of beige in the polymer\u00a0and eventually a series of browns in the tassels. The warm whites all blend together to give the pendant a\u00a0rich but serene\u00a0cohesiveness.<\/p>\n

Kelly tends to work in quieter palettes although the occasional brilliant lime green or cobalt blue\u00a0shows itself but never in a loud way. I\u00a0can almost imagine that she starts with the idea of white and lets the colors grow from that. I think you’ll see what I mean if you spend some time with her work in her Etsy shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Inspirational Challenge of the Day: <\/strong>Start with two\u00a0small balls of pure white and add just a small amount\u00a0of \u00a0a warm color to one and a cool color (blue, green, violet, etc) to the other. \u00a0Now sheet or roll snakes from each and make them the background or frame for a finished cabochon, cane, or other element you have on hand. Can you see how the slight variation changes the way the colored element works? Now try using an off-white next time you want white in a piece to see how it supports or enriches your design.<\/p>\n

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