All right. I'm almost ready to throw in the towel here. I have never, ever had such problems with a colorway before, but this damned hexagon thing is just refusing to resolve itself and is Just Pissing Me Off. And not only that, my stupid digital camera is brain-dead when it comes to color matching. I cannot get the digital colors to match what I've got in front of me, no matter how much I manipulate the shots in Photoshop. So I can't even really show you where things are going amiss.
Yes, if you can't tell, I'm flustered. Here's the state of the projects as it stands. (The colors are warmer in person than they are in this shot, but try telling that to my camera...)
As I was first working the borders around the units, the colors just sprung to life-- it had a very botanical feel. Like flowers and leaves, each hexagon like a blossom. I loved it. But the more hexagons I worked, the heavier that green began to feel.(Hard to explain. But if any of you have experience with traditional oil paint colors -- I was going for something in the Viridian palette, one of those clear translucent greens, and ended up with Chrome green instead. Just heavy and clotted and dull.)
When you compare the colorway with its original state (scroll back down a couple of entries), I actually like the original more. A fine thing to decide after hours of work.
So... I'm just going to wrap it up. I'm not going to keep wasting all these yarns. I'll finish edging all the hexagons I have made, and I'll piece them together into a sort of mat to keep on the living room table. It'll be a decorative, someplace to put down mugs of coffee and such.
I mean, I don't HATE the thing. I just don't much like it.
what if you randomly used 2 or 3 greens around the hexagons (a different green on each hexagon), so that the overall effect would be green but instead of a flat heavy chrome green it would be more like a dappled forest?
Posted by: janel | July 20, 2010 at 09:50 PM