“If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.”
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein

“For a warm earthy palette, add Raw Umber, Cadmium Red Light, Burnt Umber and Olive Green.”

Lisa Buck-Goldstein

Yesterday I was speaking to Kathy and we had a lively conversation about the yellow, pink and mossy green decorating scheme she was considering for her cottage-style home in Northern California.
It was fun and I thought I might look for something inspiring in that scheme for today’s post but I didn’t really have to seek [...]

I was doing a bit of holiday shopping for my son online at Levenger this morning when I noticed a link in their menu “Winter Colors” and as you can guess I had to click.
I found a grouping of products with the recommendation to “Give the gift of fine leather gear from Levenger this season, [...]

I opened up my email to find this absolutely adorable group of characters on an ad for Licensed Products at Printsource in January. The artwork is by Carolyn Gavin and it simply made me smile.

I like the combination of colors she chose and decided to take a closer look at the palette that has [...]

Actually completely inspired but loved the play on words because today’s color scheme inspiration comes from my friend and CMG colleague Paul Half and his blog Half2Know.

I took a section of his blog and created the color palette shown below.  I think the colors work great for his blog header but couldn’t you just image [...]

I am often inspired to prepare a meal by the color of the ingredients and because I eat fresh, natural and mostly organic foods most of my meals are built around fresh fruits and vegetables.

Recently I have gotten hooked on raw swiss chard. All I do is chop up fresh swiss chard, toss with [...]

“The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another… is not attending to what the world considers important.”
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)

I took a little detour around 7am to Fountainhead Park for a few moments outside before starting the day. The entire scene was brown and gray when I first arrived but within less than ten minutes the light changed and revealed a palette of complex neutral blues and greens.
The picture and the palette [...]