Tertiary complementary colours – 2023.07.31

I’m working on 3 pieces for an upcoming exhibit organized by my local fibre art group FYBR 2RT. This exhibit has a number of interesting requirements.

• each piece will consist of tertiary colour pairs (yellow/orange with blue/violet, yellow/green with red/violet, and red/orange with blue/green)
• the design will be based on/inspired by the Golden Mean and/or the Fibonacci Sequence
• each piece will be 20 x 20 inches

My design: I played with a lot of ideas, and eventually created a design in MS Paint with nested circles. The diameter of each circle is based on the proportions of the Fibonacci sequence – 1,2,3,5,8,13,21. Then I divided the design vertically, using the Fibonacci proportions – 1,2,3,5.

Techniques:

• I printed my design full-size, then traced the pattern lines onto paper-backed fusible web. I used a thick marker, then cut the pieces apart right down the center of the marker line (leaving a bit of marker on each piece).
• I cut a 22 x 22 inch piece of felt in one of the tertiary colours for the background.
• Fused the pattern pieces to various fabrics in the two tertiary colours. Trimmed the fabric pieces slightly inside the marker lines to leave a bit of the felt base showing between each piece as ‘grout lines’.

Here is my first piece – yellow/green and red/violet.

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Initially, I thought I would create 3 different designs – one for each piece. But I like this design so much, I decided to use it for all of them, and let the colours and values be the differentiating features.

Here is the initial fabric selection for the second piece – yellow/orange and blue/violet.

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I’m linking up with Nina-Marie’s Off the Wall Friday.

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