MY NEW BOOK IS OUT! YEAH!!!
During the last two years I wrote a new version of Color Play. It’s called Color Play, Second Edition. Knowing it would be my last book with C & T Publishing, I wanted it to be special. I wanted it filled with not only the basics, but new color information that will entice, challenge, and inform. The concepts are illustrated by a wealth of amazing quilts and fabric art, computerized illustrations, and a variety of photos.
Just to let you know…….Chapter 1 offers historical facts and essential need-to-know color basics; Chapter 2 is dedicated to the major color plans; Chapter 3 is dedicated to value and value strategies; Chapter 4 chats about color personalities, physical effects, and emotions evolving from different colors; Chapter 5 is a color reference of the 24 major colors (use this chapter as a reference rather than a reading text).
Chapter 6 is dessert! It gives you the how-to steps to creating depth, luminosity, luster, shadows, highlights, reflections, and transparency. I think this is an essential chapter for any quilter (or artist in any medium) who wants to work with any of these illusions.
I love this book. I hope you will tool. You can purchase it from your local fabric shop or book store. If that’s not possible, you can purchase it online from C & T Publishing or your favorite online site.
Joen
BOOKS—Food for the Mind
Like many people from my generation, I began reading long before I entered school. This was fortuitous, as when I could no longer go to school in 2nd and 3rd grades because of an illness, I spent most of my time reading. My wise at-home traveling teacher assigned me generous amounts of writing assignments to make the time pass quickly. By the time I was in 5th grade, I had decided to be a novelist when I grew up. That has not happened, as you probably know.
Instead I had the good fortune to have C & T Publishing want to publish nine non-fiction books that I have written. Being an avid landscape textile artist, I first wrote a book about landscape quilts. Creating a successful landscape has much to do with color and natural effects. Since there were not enough pages to cover it all, The Magical Effects of Color became my second book. In this book, I wanted to include some design basics, but there were not enough pages to cover as much as I had wanted. Hence, The Visual Dance was begun. With two exceptions, the inspiration for each book began during the writing of the previous book.
Basic information about each book is listed below, as are book reviews and my comments about the books in this store.
Adventures in Design
Internationally reknowned design and color expert, Joen Wolfrom, teaches you everything you need to know about the essentials of good design.
$29.95
Description: 144p, color
ISBN: 978-1-57120-860-6
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Color Play
Broadens your color experience and stretches your imagination with creative color play.
$27.95
Description: 144p, color
ISBN: 978-1-57120-105-8
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Visual Coloring
Color expert Joen Wolfrom takes the mystery out of choosing just-right colors and fabrics with her visual coloring technique.
$29.95
Description: 96p, color
ISBN: 973-1-57120-398-4
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The Magical Effects of Color
Explore luminosity, highlights, reflections,
and transparency in both traditional and contemporary quilts.
$29.95
Description: 128p, color
ISBN: 0-914881-53-1
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The Visual Dance
This inspiring book clearly explains the how-tos of design for quilters and artists alike.
$29.95
Description: 144p,color
ISBN: 0-914881-93-0
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Landscapes & Illusions
Creating Scenic Imagery with Fabric
$27.95
Description: 90p, color
ISBN: 0-914881-32-9
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Patchwork Persuasion
Learn how to enhance your quilts with innovative block settings and interesting internal block changes. New inspiration from traditional
block patterns!
Make Any Block Any Size
Learn to draw your own block patterns in the size you want! Joen’s “flexible grid” method is easy to learn and use.
$27.95
Description: 144p, color
ISBN: 1-57120-068-1
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A Garden Party of Quilts
Pick a Bouquet of Garden Quilts
Color expert Joen Wolfrom shows you great color choices for spectacular flower quilts.
Projects for quilters of all levels.
$24.95
Description: 80p, color
ISBN: 1-57120-301-X
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