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“The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach; so that [...]
“Better gray than garishness.”
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Eddie Ross put up a post of how he created a color scheme for an apartment from a vintage quilt. One of my favorite schemes was this grayish green and lavender with deeper accents.
He pulled six different schemes and each of them works on their own but by using the same inspiration piece the colors [...]
I was in Williamsburg over the Thanksgiving holiday and during a stroll in the garden behind the Inn I was taken with the pattern and colors in the bark of this tree.
The gray and orange combination would make a very sophisticated color palette for either an interior and exterior of a home.
Quite a different look [...]
“All colours will agree in the dark.”
Francis Bacon
Irish-born British painter, 28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992
“The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment’s peace – and even whole-being rejuvenation – by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.”
Eric Maisel
San Francisco-based Creativity Coach for Writers, Actors, Visual Artists, and Musicians
One of the advantages of getting up and out early is seeing the sunrise. I caught this little glimpse of pink as I was crossing the river this morning and snapped a photo.
I really like how the greenish gray and rust (which I tweaked to more of a taupe)
This weekend I’m participating with artist Brenda Belfield in a Winter Paint Escape where we will create a series of small abstract paintings inspired by Northern light, bare trees, and greyed hues of the season.
To some people grey may sound bland or boring but I fell in love with grey when I began working in [...]
