Setting Mood with Color in Needlepoint Tapestry

Video Transcript

"My name is Francie DeMun and I am speaking on behalf of Expert Village. I am a tapestry artist. As far as my color choice goes, I think my answer to that would be that it is completely intuitive and it goes with what my mood is at the time. You can see some of them are brighter than others. The Southwest Dragon is very light and has a lot of warm tones in it where the unicorn, Pegasus are all in the blues, they are a little more subdued and I think I would say unicorn is especially a lot of the grey and the sky is sort of quiet storminess. I can only say that probably my mood and the music contributed to that because I don’t consciously go, "Ooh, I think I am going to do this one a gray sky." What will happen is I will start getting grays in there and I do have a sense (I think we all have this ability) we just don’t necessarily know, so when you are surrounded by these colors then you start putting them down you play and get a sense of things that look beautiful together to you. Greens with a little bit of purple put in. Greens with a little bit of red when you are doing a sky even it is a bright sky and you look up at the sky in real you see that there are little grey shoots or there are so many colors. I think again probably nature."