{"id":71540,"date":"2023-02-08T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designpoolpatterns.com\/a-color-diary-kristens-year-in-color\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:57:22","slug":"a-color-diary-kristens-year-in-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designpoolpatterns.com\/a-color-diary-kristens-year-in-color\/","title":{"rendered":"A Color Diary – Kristen’s Year in Color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
You really never know when inspiration is going to strike. For Kristen, reading a book about codes<\/a> launched an entire series of work, both in her professional life and personal life. She designed the award-winning Cryptology Collection<\/em>, creating patterns with coded messages<\/a>. She also began working with codes in her needle punch artwork, especially during her residency at Snow Farm Craft<\/a>. In January 2022, she combined her enthusiasm for codes with her love of color in a color diary where she tracked her feelings each day and represented them in color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, Kristen mapped out a series of feelings and emotions. Tired, angry, happy, annoyed, sick, anxious, optimistic, nervous but excited, just ok, even feelings of warm and cold. Next, she assigned each of those feelings a color in her watercolor kit. January started out with nine feelings\/colors, but she added eleven more as the year went along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every morning of 2022, Kristen would wake up and ask herself, \u201cWhat is my mood right now? How do I feel in this minute?\u201d It forced her to stop and spend a moment truly aware of her feelings. She tried not to overthink it or judge herself. If she was somber, she was somber. The exercise was more to simply acknowledge it and document it.<\/p>\n\n\nHere’s how it worked.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n