After leaving her career in the educational field to become a homemaker in 1974, Joen became interested in quiltmaking and textile art. During a span of fifteen years, she created commissioned textile art for private clients and corporations. Her work is included in collections throughout the world. As a guest lecturer/instructor on the subject of color and design, Joen has taught throughout the United States and in England, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Joen is the author of twelve previously published books and products. Several have been bestsellers in the art/craft field; some have been translated into other languages. Her published works include Color Play, The Visual Dance, The Magical Effects of Color, Visual Coloring, Landscapes & Illusions, The Ultimate 3-in-1 Color Tool, and The Studio Color Wheel. Joen is the owner of JWD Publishing, a pattern company that publishes quilt-related patterns. She enjoys photography, reading, traveling, and spending time with her family. You may visit Joen's website at www.joenwolfrom.com or her pattern company's website at www.jwdpublishing.com.
December 2014 As you can probably tell from the front cover, this
book is exciting. Subtitled ‘Easy Steps to Imaginative Color in
Quilts’, it delivers colour by the bucket load. The book starts by
exploring colour inspired by nature and then takes a look at single
colours: yellow, green, blue, violet, red, orange and finishes with
a look at highlights, depth and more. I am not sure that any words
can prepare you for how wonderful this book is. You’ll find
everything you need to know about colour. All about tonal values,
shades, tints, complementaries and so on. I love Joen’s block
colour schemes and the fact that there are many alternatives
demonstrating the effect of changing colours. This book is
instructive but such fun. There are vibrant examples of work
throughout. Using this book will certainly make your quilts pop.
Highly recommended for all quilters who love colour.
*Karen Platt Yarnsandfabrics.co.uk/crafts*
December 2014 In Joen Wolfrom’s book ‘Color Play’ (reviewed in the
Books section of this issue) she refers to her Color Tool. Having
found the book fascinating, I decided to invest in one of these to
help me fine-tune some of my colour choices. There are 24 colour
cards with numbered swatches (there are 34 variations listed for
each pure colour listed). On the back of each card, you are
supplied with colour schemes that work with that particular colour,
be it Monochromatic, Complementary, Analogous, Split-Complementary
or Triadic. Each colour within each scheme is listed with its card
number so you can then refer back to the correct card in the Colour
Tool. Further, within each colour scheme, the relevant swatch
number can be cross-referenced across all the colours. For example,
if you chose Cerulean Blue (card number 10), using the tint 10-5,
you know that the Complementary colour Yellow Orange (card number
22) tint to match 10-5 will be 22-5. Although it sounds complicated
(to me) in practice, it is very easy to get the idea and enables
good colour choices to be made, knowing that they have been
deciphered by an expert and will work! A bonus is that all the
colour swatches for each pure colour, its tones, tints and shades
are listed with their CMYK and RGB colours. I found this
particularly useful in Photoshop, as I was able to match the colour
exactly by typing these co-ordinates in the Colour Picker screen.
For any work done with image manipulation, this will greatly
simplify your colour choices when creating a palette to work with
digitally.
*Workshop On The Web*
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