Kate Smith is an optimistic, expressive, artist, designer, writer and color fanatic. With her warm and witty style, Kate teaches you to clearly see, understand and be inspired by color. Then she guides you step-by-step to develop your own unique color sense-ability and achieve results you never dreamed possible.
Read Time: 3 min Eugène Delacroix was one of the leading artists of the French Romantic period of the 19th century. As a painter and muralist, Delacroix’s use of expressive brushstrokes and use of color profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
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Read Time: 2 min Who would have thought that a visiting Russian Grand Duke would have had such an influence on the Mardi Gras colors meaning?
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Read Time: 3 min Jake from Entrepreneur magazine want to get some advice on color names and what to wear for an upcoming event. Here’s the advice I gave him complete with a dash of humor.
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Read Time: 3 min James Abbott McNeill Whistler was a U.S.-born British painter who is best-known for his painting, “Whistler’s Mother”. Here is what he had to say about color.
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Read Time: < 1 minute George Noory had read the recent news story, “Study says the woman in red drives the men crazy,” and wanted to know, “Is it true?” Here’s my answer.
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Read Time: 2 min Diana Vreeland was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue and as a special consultant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There are many notable Diana Vreeland quotes about color.
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Read Time: 2 min Survey shows that health-conscious buyers are more likely to be drawn to foods in blue packaging. Find out why we connect this color to low-fat foods.
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Read Time: 2 min A brownout is something that many of us have experienced, yet we may not have known the term.
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Read Time: 3 min The focus in the world of fashion and beauty has always been on the superficial, physical appearance. But the essence of beauty can always be found in the details
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Read Time: 3 min While most color words have their origins in long lists of dusty etymological explanations, the origin of the word magenta is worthy of a summer blockbuster.
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Read Time: < 1 minute I bet you recognize the bold pink “T” as the symbol for T-Mobile. It stands out both because it is a single letter “word” and the unexpected T-Mobile magenta and the company wants to keep it that way.
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Read Time: 3 min With trends moving at lightning speed and new developments in color technology making just about anything possible, it is essential to keep abreast of what is going on in not one industry, but all of them. There’s only one way to keep up.
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Read Time: 2 min French artist Paul Gauguin’s bold colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts helped him achieve broad success in the late 19th century.
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Read Time: 3 min Have you ever noticed that wearing a particular outfit makes you feel extra confident? Or that when you wear a certain color you receive more complements because you look especially attractive? Would you like to look in the mirror everyday and see a reflection that says “I look and feel great”
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Read Time: 2 min With over 750 structures in bright Curacao colors, it is no wonder that UNESCO awarded Willemstad the decree of a World Heritage City.
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Read Time: 2 min White elephant meaning includes both honor and disgrace. How did something cherished in one country become so loathed in another?
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Read Time: 2 min There are many shades of lavender; mauve, periwinkle and amethyst but “floral lavender” remains the standard bearer for color trueness.
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Read Time: 3 min Claude Monet was born in 1840, in Paris, France. He enrolled in the Academie Suisse. After an art exhibition in 1874, a critic insultingly dubbed Monet’s painting style “Impression” and the term stuck.
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Read Time: < 1 minute Did you know that there is a condition called Porphyrophobia which is the fear of the color purple? Yes, believe it or not, there is.
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