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01/30/2006

inspiration

At the MOMA yesterday, overwhelmed by all the colors, I remembered reading something about finding inspiration for a fair isle design in a favorite painting. I figure, the same thing can be done with dyeing roving, right? I collected some JPGs online last night of some paintings with beautiful color palettes, and today I dyed up my first choice:

Harmony in Red, by Matisse. I isolated the colors I wanted to use on my template:



and mixed up some colors. The dark red turned out a little more brown than I wanted, and I don't think the blue will show up nearly as much as I wanted it to, but it's a start. I'm really excited about the deep red/light blue combination. I even think I did a good job of matching that almost-orangey yellow, which isn't easy, since lemonade kool-aid is decidedly not bright, and any red I have is very overpowering. I dyed 2 oz of my latest roving purchase, Targhee. What could that be?? It probably won't be so soft, but neither is the corriedale I've been using, and that's totally fine by me. I am just a beginner after all!

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