Learn how to use color in your art to create vibrant compositions
Whether your medium is fiber art, painting, beading or decorating your home, I've got lots of colorful projects and inspirations for you. Pull out your stash of color, surround yourself and breathe in the glow of inspiration that your favorite colors bring you. Then grab a mug, head straight to your studio – whether it's a kitchen table or a light-filled loft – and join me for a journey into color and creativity!
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Artful Color in Nuno Felt:
Creating Inspirational Nuno Felt Projects and Palettes
Learn how to Nuno Felt—a luscious fiber art using wet-felting of silk and wool. Whether you’re new to fiber art or a lifelong felting enthusiast, indulge your creative spirit with the inspiration you've been searching for, and express the colors of your world in a way that is richly layered, full of delightful surprises and generous with colorful possibilities. Artful Color in Nuno Felt is an award-winning book that will take you from the basics of nuno felting a simple scarf, to more advanced projects including colorfully vibrant shawls, purses and jackets and more.
Now available in hard copy and eBook formats:
Dance As If Only The Moon Is Watching:
Art & Words by Beverly Ash Gilbert
Grab a cup of coffee or tea, or perhaps a glass of wine, settle into your favorite cozy spot, and be uplifted with poems about friendship, beauty in every-day life, and loving yourself.
Beverly’s Art & Words series on social media have been shared and re-shared around the world spreading positivity, joy… and of course, a hefty slice of color!
This compilation of artwork, poems and thoughts is the perfect gift for you and the people on your list who deserve an extra shot of joy and color!
Eye For Color
Interchangeable Templates & Color Wheel System
Create gorgeous color combinations with this unique and easy-to-use color wheel tool. Inside you'll get 2 large color wheels that take you beyond primary and secondary colors. One is rich with saturated colors, the other has softer pastels – both can be mixed and matched. Brochure pages are filled with tips on color harmonies and palettes, and loads of colorful photographs to inspire you.
The snap-together design system gives you options to work with the color wheels and templates in the book, or on the go, when you remove and snap together to carry to your favorite beading, sewing, garden or home design store. Eye for Color makes creating beautiful color combinations on the go a snap! Oh, and be sure to check out the additional color wheels that are included in the Eye For Color Family of color wheels!
Dip Into Color:
A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Joyful Color Harmony
Perfect companion book to Eye For Color!
Do you love color? Do you yearn to use color in new and different ways? Then come along and dip your fingers into the world of color. We will journey together from inspiration through the various iterations of creating a personal color palette. Along the way, we'll learn the basic language of color in easy-to-visualize steps and understand the importance of color attributes, such as value, undertones and transitions, when pulling colors together. Dip Into Color is a great reference for any artist!
“Dip Into Color is by far the best teaching on color theory. Truly an approachable and unique book. Very fast delivery and safe packaging. I’ll be back to shop again soon.”
Artful color for Creative Projects
Inspirational Color Palettes for Jewelry, Fiber and Mixed-Media Artists
Dive into a world of color with Artful Color for Creative Projects! – with luscious photography, expansive color palettes and inspirational works of art. Follow along while images of everyday scenes become stunning new color palettes bursting with depth and movement. Then learn how to use new color palettes in your next creative projects. With a playful approach, you'll learn to gently guide your eye beyond the most dominant colors in a scene to the subtle nuances that can turn an ordinary color palette into an extraordinary one. Play along through pages and pages of artful ideas in a variety of mediums.
Now available in hard copy and eBook formats:
“This book is AMAZING!!!! Inspiring and informative and soooo much fun to look through over and over again. Word can’t describe how beautiful it is and I will enjoy learning from it and watching my own paintings improve for years to come!!”
Beaded Colorways
Creating Freeform Beadweaving Projects and Palettes
Working with color is exhilarating! And what better way to play with color than in making bead soups and incorporating them in freeform beadweaving projects? Just as a painter mixes different pigments on her palette, Beaded Colorways will have you creating bead soups that sparkle with depth and movement. You'll learn how to go from color inspiration, to defining the color relationship, to creating a new color palette with beads. Look inside the back cover for the color wheels and templates I've included to help you create color combinations that really sing. Then jump into the numerous freeform projects for countless ways to use your beautiful mixes, including color-flow techniques for seamlessly blending from one color to the next. It's like painting with beads!