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Color the shapes as shown, gray, pink and blue. Clone the pink and the blue shapes (Ctrl k). Select the pink and the gray shape and Arrange > Combine Shapes > Subtract Shapes (Ctrl 2). You should have a gray outline shape like the one shown center left. Select the blue and pink shape and Subtract Shapes which should result in the pink outline shape shown above right. And you should have a solid blue center shape as well.
Reduce the top of the fork (the tines) to 75% and arrange the top and handle as shown above. I am using a Caslon Ornament shell, actually a lower case j in the Caslon Ornament font. To save you the expense of having to buy the entire font for just one character, I have made the shell available for you to use. Click here to open the file. Place the shell at the bottom of the handle as shown above. The drawing is done. Now comes the fun part, coloring.
We could use black, percentages of black and white for our silver fills but if we add a small touch of color, the silver colors will be richer. We'll create 2 blends to make a palette of colors with which to work. Make 2 sets of squares, one set a small distance below the other, and make 2 duplicate squares and set them off to the right about the space and size shown above. Using the Color Editor (Ctrl e) apply the RGB values shown above. If you are a new user and are not familiar with mixing RGB colors see Mixing Colors in Workbook 40. Select the Blend Tool (F7). Drag from the top left square to the top right square. Click on the bottom left square and drag over to the bottom right square. Convert the blends to Editable Shapes (Arrange menu), then Arrange > Ungroup. Delete the bottom left square as this is a duplicate of the top right square. These are the colors we'll be using. You can add numbers as shown above, or make your life easier as covered below.
Adding Custom Colors to the Color Line If you plan to do a lot of work with a palette of custom colors (and we are), you can add colors to the color line as shown above.
With the color from the blend of colors selected, open the Color Editor (Ctrl e). Click the small yellow tag icon (New Named Color), give the color a name, and press Create . The color now appears in the screen palette and you can easily apply it as a fill or outline color. Repeat this for all 13 colors using numbers 1-13. This palette will be saved with your drawing.
As with all the other colors on the Color Line (the color palette), when you let your cursor rest over a color for a few seconds, the name of the color appears in a tool tip as you can see above. So on the next few pages when I indicate a color, use one of the custom colors on the Color Line. If you are lazy and did not create the custom colors, you can use the Color Picker (the eye dropper tool) in the Color Editor to sample the colors from your blended palette. Save your drawing and take a short break.
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