20th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: face, flesh tones, green, purple, red, yellow
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“If you look closely at any face, you’ll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors – red, green, purple and yellow.”
Doug Dawson
19th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: autumn, blue, imagination, maple leaf, rainbow
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“In Autumn you can take one maple leaf and see almost all the colours of the rainbow in it – although you would need your imagination to see blue.”
Dorthe Eisenhardt
18th Nov. '08 • Trendspotted: Fashion and Beauty • Tags: pantone, vintage color
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I just received an invite to purchase the new SeeVees shoe designed as an exclusive collaboration with Pantone. I love the vintage colors and casual style.
Here’s some of the highlights of the invitation:
For the first time in their 45 year history, Pantone has allowed an external design team into their hallowed archives. SeaVees has selected seven vintage colors from the original Pantone color guide. The palette, chosen from the only authentic guide known to exist, epitomizes the cool, casual style of California in 1963.
18th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: colorist, painter, temperature
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“I don’t think of myself as a ‘colorist’; I look at myself as a value painter. While I paint I do not think directly of what colors I wish to use… rather I think of temperature.”
Don O’Neill
17th Nov. '08 • Trendspotted: Fashion and Beauty • Tags: Color Inspiration, live in full color, orange, purple
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A visit to JCrew inspired this color palette.
See how they used the two hues of purple in my post on Live In Full Color…
17th Nov. '08 • Color as a Profession • Tags: speaker kate smith
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I’ll be speaking on Wednesday on “Color Trends: Influences and Inspirations” at the prestigious Congressional Country Club just outside of Washington, DC.
I myself am a member of Capital Speakers Club so am most honored to have been asked to speak about my favorite topic–COLOR–as the primary speaker at our monthly luncheon. (more…)
17th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: air, canvas, light, palette
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“Ah, Chardin, what you grind on your palette is not this color or that… but the very substance of things. You dip your brush in air and light and spread them on your canvas.”
Denis Diderot
16th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: emotion
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“Color, rather than shape, is more closely related to emotion.”
David Katz
15th Nov. '08 • Favorite Colors • Tags: Favorite Colors
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After hearing the question posed to Andrew Denton on the radio Kristofor Lawson ponders the question, “If You Were A Crayon What Colour Would You Be??”
Kristofor says, “It’s such a simple question. However upon reflection it is not actually one which is so easy to answer.
It would be easy for me to answer the question with Orange as being my favourite colour.. however is that the right choice? Is the question much deeper than that? (more…)
15th Nov. '08 • Quotes About Color • Tags: dancing, rhythm, sky, spectrum, sun, transparent, water
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“Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form… its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.”
David Hockney
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