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Color Quote of the Day: March 20th

Kate Smith — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:05:29 +0000

“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

Color Quote of the Day: March 18th

Kate Smith — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:05:14 +0000

“Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn’t. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.”

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein

Color Quote of the Day: March 14th

Kate Smith — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:05:51 +0000

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

Lisa Buck-Goldstein

Color Quote of the Day: February 28th

Kate Smith — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:05:13 +0000

“Artists can colour the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must colour things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid.”

Jules Feiffer

Color Quote of the Day: February 15th

Kate Smith — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:05:55 +0000

“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 great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.”

John Ruskin

Color Quote of the Day: February 10th

Kate Smith — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:05:36 +0000

“Good colour really means good taste; and ‘powerful’ colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not ‘red, white, and blue all over.”

John F. Carlson

Color Quote of the Day: January 19th

Kate Smith — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:05:21 +0000

“Of all the hues, reds have the most potency. If there is one electric blue, a dozen reds are so charged. Use them to punctuate white, burn into bronzes, or dynamite black.”

Jack Lenor Larsen

Color Quote of the Day: January 3rd

Kate Smith — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:05:35 +0000

“You can spend a lifetime studying the interaction of colours, and painting how red can dance, so when the viewer ‘gets it’ and says ‘Aha!’ their way of seeing is transformed.”

Gayle Konantz

JCrew Savings Inspired

Kate Smith — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:34:06 +0000

I regularly see articles or books that talk about looking to fine art or photographs of nature for color scheme inspiration and these are great places to find beautiful combinations however color inspiration can come from anywhere that there is color.

My inbox seems to be ripe recently with ads filled with color inspiration. This email advertisement from JCrew caught my eye this evening because it uses a variety of red and orange hues in a way the I found particularly appealing.

They have taken the trend of combining red and orange that has been quite popular this holiday (especially among their target audience) and and subtly used it to add interest to this mostly red and white ad.

Levenger Winter Colors

Kate Smith — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:42:39 +0000

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, or add a splash of festive seasonal color to your own business ensemble.”

A take off on the traditional red and green colors of Christmas the mostly leather items did look appealing but not sure why they chose to call them “Winter Colors” rather than