I've never thought of myself as an artistic person. In general, I cannot draw a straight line, and I have a terrible eye for colors. I can't draw anything, and I don't usually think of myself as being very creative. However, this semester I'm in an Interior Design class. I've learned a lot about colors in the last 2 or 3 weeks. We made a color wheel by mixing the paints of the primary colors, then looked at tints and shades, followed by neutralizing colors then making tones. All of this basically means that I played around with mixing paints a lot. Finally, our big color project was getting a fabric with a color scheme in it, and mixing the colors we would use for a room.
My fabric was really ugly. It was a dark brown with big yellow and pink flowers on it. I picked it because it was the only fabric I could find that I would ever consider putting on a couch, and that's what he told us to look for-a bedspread or couch fabric.
I started out feeling very discouraged and thinking that I couldn't do it. Then I realized that I could. I actually mixed the majority of my colors without help from my teacher. I ended up very proud of my project, and actually fond of the ugly fabric.
I feel like this class is very good for me, because it is forcing me to find my creative side. There are people whom I've told I'm not creative who have pointed to my sewing, but sewing isn't very creative to me. It's more mathematical-measuring out inches to fold or sew. However, you can't make mixing colors mathematical. If you put in equal amounts of orange and blue, they won't cancel each other out because blue is so much stronger. You can't make an equation or put into numbers the way making a color scheme works.
So while I'm pushing myself so much for this class, I'm also coming to appreciate so many things much more.
My fabric was really ugly. It was a dark brown with big yellow and pink flowers on it. I picked it because it was the only fabric I could find that I would ever consider putting on a couch, and that's what he told us to look for-a bedspread or couch fabric.
I started out feeling very discouraged and thinking that I couldn't do it. Then I realized that I could. I actually mixed the majority of my colors without help from my teacher. I ended up very proud of my project, and actually fond of the ugly fabric.
I feel like this class is very good for me, because it is forcing me to find my creative side. There are people whom I've told I'm not creative who have pointed to my sewing, but sewing isn't very creative to me. It's more mathematical-measuring out inches to fold or sew. However, you can't make mixing colors mathematical. If you put in equal amounts of orange and blue, they won't cancel each other out because blue is so much stronger. You can't make an equation or put into numbers the way making a color scheme works.
So while I'm pushing myself so much for this class, I'm also coming to appreciate so many things much more.
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