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estebanana -> RE: My new Stephan Faulk blanca!!! (Oct. 4 2016 1:34:45)
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You don't need to defend yourself. You have a way with colours that nobody else can match. Do you dye the woods yourself?
Rob
I have not dyed any wood strips for quite some time, I buy colors from veneer suppliers, and I pick the ones few other guitar makers would pick. No secrets there. I put the colors next to each other so they blend in your eye and create a second color sensation.
This last one is not really made that way, it's like a checkers set, red and black, with a dark purple line. And Ive gone to using thin white lines like most Spanish work.
The reason the colors look like they do in my other rosettes is because I will put a light acidic green and bright yellow together with an orange line, this blends the three color together to make a color that shimmers as it blends in your eye. Blue and red next to each other blends in your eye an makes purple, Yellow and red makes orange, etc. So I try to think about putting sets of colors together so they either fight and become more intense, or they cancel each other out and become muddy or greyed by being next to each other. I make the decision pretty quickly and don't belabor it.
I worked through a period of having three or four strange greens on hand, and most of it is gone, so now I'm headed into Black and White with Red and accent colors. I'm also going to do fewer of the concentric circles without rosettes and make more tiles for a while. I'm switching from color driven to graphic driven, I think.
The structure or format is almost always Spanish - center element, which is a band of something either lines or tiles. A field of black one either side, or sometimes brown, then a set of border lines or a "braid" design and a final black border. There has been some rule bending on that format, but mainly just swapping places with the outer border decorations.
To tell the truth I look at other peoples rosettes and I wish I could be more normal. Oh well.
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