Colour Palettes
July 18, 2007 at 1:13 PM
by Ashleigh
When she could write, she could really really write ...
I've been writing a lot. I wonder if it has to do with actually getting 9 hours of sleep on the weekend? Maybe.
I followed a link from Liquid Sky Arts to BigHugeLabs colour palette generator. BigHugeLabs was formerly 'fd's flickr toys' and I've used a couple of their applications in the past. The colour palette generator is awesome. I showed Brad and he said 'oh we learnt to do this in computer science 2nd year'.
Yes Brad, but I never did computer science 2nd year and besides, this little toy makes it accessible to people like me. So yay for fd.
To get to the point, sometime today. I looked at some of my home photos and converted them to colour palette's and man, they are so boring.
Neutral was what I wanted but this is beyond neutral. This is blah! We have cream walls, cream furniture, a dark rug, cream kitchen, cream blinds. The idea was to create a neutral background so that I could infuse it with colour, but the colour never happened. I need colour!
Let me show you what I mean.
This is the current colour palette:
Since this photo was taken I've added some red accents here and there, but generally, it's just neutral to past boring.
In comparison have a look at this one generated from a photo taken in Vittel:
And this one from London:
And finally this one from my flower bouquet:
I'd love to take elements from all three of these photos and mix them to create a palette that was really me.
I'm a little afraid of colour, to be honest. I find it overwhelming. There are so many choices, so many nuances. I find it difficult to choose one and then go with it, which is probably why my apartment is neutral, neutral and neutral some more.
Hue Consulting offers reader makeovers, so I'm going to email this article. Maybe Rachel will have some ideas about how I can change my surroundings to show the colourful nature that I know I really have.
It's just hidden deep down somewhere.
You know.
Comments
Do you think it's this miserable weather that makes one long for color? I am so sick of gray - I feel like if I never saw another overcast/rainy day again, that would be just about right!
In the distant past when I was an art student and Apple was a fruit, we used to get a big bag of scrap yarn and a strip of card and colour analyse a picture, flower, painting, whatever by matching yarn to colours we could see and winding it onto the card. The result was stripes of colour in different widths depending how much of that colour we could see. This could then be the basis for textile designs - woven stripes, knitted patterns, etc. It really influenced the was I look at things.
July 18, 2007 1:51 PM