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Hi, I’m Faith and I’m here at Flat Fork Studio, and I’m going to talk a little bit
about design and color. Personally, I have a formula that I use all the time in making
my designs. It’s called the 3-5-7 rule. Basically you take a look at all of your tile
pieces that you have available to you, you think about the colors that you really want.
My personal three favorite colors are this yellow, red, and I love this teal color. But
how am I going to put it onto my board? How are you going to make it look good and uniform.
Well, with the 3-5-7 rule that I use, I can fill this board very easily and make it look
wonderfully uniform. Basically, I take the colors that I want. I have three pieces of
yellow. I’ll start with these colors. I’ll put one here, one here, and maybe one here.
Then I’ll come in- red. Red is a really hard color to find, so I’m usually pretty
sparing with it, but I use it in almost every design that I do. On this, I may either use
seven pieces, or I may use five pieces. Basically, what I’ll do is I’ll just sort of place
them around…I’m not real big into symmetrics. But I’ll put them and arrange them just
so that they’re sort of evenly dispersed around. Okay, here’s five. So we’ve done
three yellow, five red. And we’re just kind of going to play with them just so they look
kind of even around the board. The third thing that I’m going to use will be my turquoise.
So I’ll come in here and use turquoise. And I’ll start- I may put one right next
to each other. Start kind of fitting them together like a puzzle piece. There’s three
here. Four, five, six-oh and let’s say we’ll put a really big one right there- seven. From
here on, I can choose to either add more color or if I just want to a really nice sparse
kind of a look, kind of what I do from here on is that I will either add more color…say
that I want to put maybe three more red in there because I’d like to have more red.
That looks nice. And I’d like to maybe put a little bit more blue. See how I’m sort
of evenly dispersing them throughout? Now to finish this piece, I might put a border
of a solid color around and then I will fill with white. Everything else then. White just
goes everywhere else so that you have a unified, beautiful, professional looking piece. And that is how I use color and I use the
3-5-7 rule when I’m designing my tile pieces.