Posts Tagged ‘green’
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 this color scheme in an interior of an apartment or knitted into a favorite sweater?
These aren’t the exact colors perhaps but when I paint a landscape I work to capture the feeling of the scene in colors that please me rather than worrying about whether or not they are the exact hues.
My thought process is much the same when I develop a color scheme from something that inspires me and I hope it is your approach as well. No need to worry about getting the colors exactly but rather focus on putting together colors that please you.
And just in case you were wondering here is what the full banner looks like. (more…)
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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 some Sel Gris (French Grey Salt) and high quality olive oil and enjoy a flavorful salad full of color and nutrients.
In looking at how gorgeous my bowl of chopped greens looked I was reminded how people sometimes (more…)
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“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 (more…)
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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) (more…)
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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 will give you an idea of the colors but can’t even come close to duplicating what your eye sees when you experience the natural environment directly.
The colors were intriguing, restful and so (more…)
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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
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“Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green and red…”
Claude Monet
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“Reds, yellows and oranges conjure up sunlight and fire, while the blues and blue-greens evoke snow and ice, sea, sky and moonlight.”
Anonymous
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Color has this incredible ability to evoke memories. Sometimes we’re not aware of what’s going on in the back of our mind but have a strong like or dislike for a particular color.
Other times a color, or maybe more correctly a color in a specific context, can take us through the millions of images in our mind and locate exactly where we’ve seen that color before. Recently I was reminded of just how powerful this phenomenon is.
I have received several emails from someone who uses a green font and whenever I read his messages I find my mind calling up images of my father’s handwriting.
You see my dad always loved to write with ballpoint pens or flair markers with green ink. It quite literally became his signature color.
So although the context is a bit different when I see the green font it so clearly brings my father’s handwriting into my mind that even seven years after his death I can see his signature as clearly in my mind as if I was looking down at it on a piece of paper.
Amazing isn’t it?
Related:
Color Memories Stay With Us
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“He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.”
Oscar Wilde
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