{"id":1021,"date":"2008-10-30T18:39:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T01:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2014-05-23T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T21:10:14","slug":"color-quiz-helps-polymer-clay-and-jewelry-artists-with-mixing-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/color-quiz-helps-polymer-clay-and-jewelry-artists-with-mixing-colors\/1021\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Quiz Helps Polymer Clay and Jewelry Artists with Mixing Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Polymer<\/p>\n

Do You Know Your Color IQ? This Test Will Improve Your Color Intelligence!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Understanding colors and how to mix them is something that is difficult for many. I think the reason is that most peoples’ eyes are not trained to see the<\/span> subtle differences in color. I use the word ‘trained’ because I feel we can all train our eyes to be better at distinguishing color.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today I received an email newsletter from Ania Kyte of the Fraser Valley Beadwork Group. It is a local beading group that I have been following but haven’t found the time to attend any meetings yet. They do send some interesting info though, so I keep getting their emails.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, Ania recommended a site with a Color IQ Test<\/a> that you might want to check out. I tried their color quiz and thought it was really cool. [Added Note: For some reason, the above link doesn’t work 100% of the time. If it goes to a “choose-your-country-page,” just follow the instructions. So far when I’ve selected United States, the color quiz has always come up for me.]<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Basically, the Color IQ Test is four strips of color blends that are jumbled up and you have to put them back in order according to hue. Each strip has a beginning color and an end color that when put in the correct order, looks exactly like a Skinner Blend… smoothly shifting from one shade to the other.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you are finished rearranging each strip, you get a score on how well you did. Zero is perfect and 1500 is pretty much color blind. You can also get a comparison to see how well you fair against others of your gender and age group.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I love about this test (besides the fact that I am smokin’ good at this… did it three times and got 0, 4 and 0!) is that as you are dragging and dropping the colors into their proper boxes, you are training your eyes to see the difference between color shades that are very close to one another.<\/span><\/p>\n

I kept asking myself, “Is this one more green or more blue than the one I just put down?” Sometimes it is really hard to tell. Especially if the original colors are similar to each other.<\/span><\/p>\n

So go try it out and come back here to discuss. Are you better with color than you expected? Or worse? Did you get better at differentiating the hues when you did the test more than once? Do you think your score would be different if the colors were presented on color chips instead of on a computer monitor?<\/span><\/p>\n

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**For more info and inspiration on how to effectively mix colors, be sure to read this post too: Polymer Clay How To Tips For Creating Beautiful Jewelry Colors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Cindy\"Polymer<\/p>\n

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