Colour Study 3, 4, & 6

     I have been working on the Colour Challenge ... just didn't get around to posting them.

     #3 is Triadic ... 3 colours evenly spaced on the colour wheel. The colours I chose are red, blue and yellow.

     Originally I had left the sky plain ... no quilting, but once I got to the corner piece which was mainly sky, I decided that I would tie all the sky pieces together and quilt them the same way. I have also not finished the edging since I am not sure what I want to do with all of the pictures yet.

     #4 is Tetradic: 4 colours which are two sets of complementary colours. In this case I chose, red & green and violet & yellow .... except it showed up blue when I took the picture. :-( The sky is a pale violet ... and looks pale blue. Hopefully when I assemble all the pieces and take the final picture with good lighting, it will be possible to see the proper colours.

     The house on the right is really a pretty shade of yellow ... kind of looks washed out here.

     # 5 is Split Complementary ... BUT the picture I chose at random was a full sky picture and I wasn't sure how I was going to work in 3 colours on basically a plain picture with a small edge of roof. I outlined the faint clouds in the photo but it still wasn't working for me so I skipped #5 and decided that my sky picture would look better in Challenge #6: Monochromatic. And I can head back and do #5 for the next set of buildings.

     So ... #6: Monochromatic: There is already a pale blue sky, a pale yellow sky and a pale violet sky; to change things up, I chose orange for this piece and because I am determined NOT to buy any extra fabric for this challenge, I really had to play around with my stash to get a good gradation of colours. I seem to be a little limited on oranges.

    
     It was at this point I decided that all skies should be quilted the same. I am also trying to match the power lines as best I can although some may jog a wee bit when connected. I think when I figure out how I am going to bind each little quilt, then you won't notice if they are straight lines or not.
I now have the top 3 pieces done and I am beginning to see a proper picture. I have noticed that for one of the houses that I actually chose the same colour twice so I will try to pick something different for the in-between block.
     Five pictures done (well, almost done as there are some fine details on the houses around the windows that probably should be added) ... four more to go.