Does Your Surface Design Do the Tango?

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SueAndrus — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:26:31 GMT

I have been a pink, purple, blue and green kind of girl most of my life... Reds and oranges rarely have found their way into my work unless to make items to sell for Fall and Christmas, and then they were never my favorite pieces.

Just this summer a I have been finally getting back to fabric painting, and have found myself playing with hot pink and bright orange! The shade of orange I have ended up using the most is like the Tangerine Tango... I like the sunnier shades on the yellow side of orange. For me while growing up, pink and orange was a horrible combination, and now I am finding myself drawn to that combination... I still am not a fan of red... red paint is only used to create the many shades of pink I like to play with (along with the orange). It's funny how my taste in colors change. I still am in love with my usually softer shades of pinks, purples, and especially blues and greens, but have been enjoying the bright clear colors I have been playing with lately... Thank goodness my "rocks and mud" frame of mind has passed for the most part :) For too long, everything I painted seemed to end up muddy, dirty browns and murky greens.... that seemed to start when the creative blahhhs set in...

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bubbee163 — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:48:42 GMT

Love, love, love orange - all shades - patterns, florals and bits of solids. This specific color adds so much energy and a dynamic flair to any composition. To me, it is the new red! Happy that orange is not only for Halloween and autumn - too fantastic a color to be limited to one season/holiday. In fact, orange has been and continues to be my daughter's favorite color and now her daughter is catching the que.

Bonnie aka bubbee

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kurli — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:41:12 GMT

Tangerine Tango!

Yes please! I find shades of Orange, or tangerine if you prefer, to be vibrant, energetic and warming.

Maybe it's because I live in a sub tropical climate: Maybe not!

But I enjoy adding shades of orange to my quilts and landscapes....even if it is only a smidgeon of colour.

It adds interest and life and provokes comment.

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DeborahW@2 — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:11:49 GMT

Orange is my favorite color always! I especially love reddish orange and yellowish orange....it is so beautiful.

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Shar Short — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:30:21 GMT

In the 80s you could not get any kind of orange fabric except in the very traditional calico lines. And this continued well in to the 90s. Also in the fashion world, orange was missing. I was so happy that oranges started coming back in in the late 90s - I bought every one I saw at first!! And now we seem to have a fashion and design world who takes delight in ALL colors and that's the way it should be. I like to see all colors used in all kinds of combinations. But I am partial to orange...

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skydot — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:15:33 GMT

For many years I would enter a fabric store and look at the great wall of fabric--the color orange in any form was missing. Thank goodness times have changed! As a teacher I covered my room with Garfield posters and gave orange hall passes...so no surprize that orange trims blocks in children's quilts, blossoms in garden appiques, embellishes African mask art quilts and of course is the star color in the Halloween costumes, wallhangings and table runners.

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skydot — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:15:25 GMT

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quiltingwitch — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:09:54 GMT

I recently was making a crap quilt --- putting tgh. squares that were individually multi-colored on a black background --- and I found that orange (which has never been my favorite color) was "the new black." Everything goes with orange --- the fall colors, yellow, rust, brown, copper; the spring colors, light greens yellows, pinks, violets; the summer colors, other oranges, yellows, some reds, darker greens; and winter, white, black, greys, violets, -------- it's just amazing.

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Rutholson — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:04:13 GMT

I love orange. In my first house was a sun room/porch that we painted orange. A turquoise couch was in the living room. (Perhaps we should have had the couch on the porch.) My mother, who went to Parsons School of Design way back when, told me I should never mix blue with green, nor red with orange. I guess she was taught not to use analogous colors--though she might have determined this on her own. However, I love both these combinations, and have steered more and more in recent years toward the latter.

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2lindacallender@gmail.com — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:23:04 GMT

Yea for orange! As I sit here in my bright orange top and think about all the orange in my stash, I give it a two thumbs up.

My daughter recently painted her quilting room orange and yellow--very cheery!

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2Victory — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:42:41 GMT

I recently tried the marbling technique on some fabric out of my stash. One of the solid colors I had was orange. I used green and red and yellow and then in between those circles i used black with white inside. It almost looks giraffe-ish. I wish there was a place to upload a photo. Anyway, i was surprised at how much i liked the orange. It really did make the other colors stand out.

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Emma Radovich — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:10:06 GMT

Orange is a fantastic color. It has been one of my favorite colors next to the various shades of brown and yellow. Since I work with a lot of Kimono silks and other asian style fabrics, one can not miss the various shades of oranges they used. Some of the other colors it is often paired with is unbelivable. I have some that is paired with grays, brown, blues, green and even pink. Pink is my least favorite color. I just did a pillow case for ConKerr Cancer pillow that had very bright orange flowers on a field of blue and the top part of the pillow case was done with a shade of orange that matched the flowers.

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craft_chick — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:20:09 GMT

love Love LOVE orange --can't get enough of it! I'm doing a whole block-of-the-month quilt from Craftsy in Tangerine Tango:

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Angelina K

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Nancy Smeltzer — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:00:00 GMT

For me, I ADORE tangerine, but then, I'm pretty partial to a lot of colors. Tangerine with some punches of lavender, bright purple, and magenta can really sing, but then, I've never been accused of being subtle.

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UPannie — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:48:16 GMT

Hmm, tangerine. It's sort of like bungee jumping. I probably won't participate, but I'll watch with interest.