In my workshops I call magenta/fuchsia “new red” and the crayon color of red “old red” This is one of Elise Winters latest colorways that uses both – a beautiful combination of old red, new red and yellow green. Elise is looking for a poetic name for this gorgeous group of colors. What would you call it?
If Elise uses your suggested name she will send you one of her scatter pins made from these new colors. Now that’s a great incentive to put on the thinking cap and come up with a creative name. Can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with . . .
January 28, 2007 at 11:50 am
I’m thinking of something like “Scheherazade”- one thousand and one exotic tales, just like I could imagine the combinations these colours could tell.
January 27, 2007 at 7:44 pm
What do you think of Berry Pistacio Sorbet?
January 26, 2007 at 3:47 am
Melonberry
The colors remind me of honeydew, watermelon, cantalope and strawberries.
January 26, 2007 at 3:13 am
I grow lots of peppers…I’d call this “ScovilleUnits”. They are beautiful!
January 25, 2007 at 10:09 pm
My name suggestion is
“Smashin’ Watermelon”
January 25, 2007 at 1:49 pm
With a twinkle: “Bollywood love”
January 25, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Mango Blossoms
January 25, 2007 at 1:57 am
Nice color scheme, Elise!
Meadow blossoms
spring bouquet
rainbow sherbert
January 24, 2007 at 9:54 pm
How about Pastel Pastiche
January 24, 2007 at 6:04 pm
How about:
‘Extra-orchid-ary!”
I am a weaver planning for NEWS. I am a draft/structure/texture person, who feels COLOR is for Artists, and not for good craftswomen like me.
Is you seminar accessible to people like me? I don’t want to be told to ‘Play and Enjoy and you will Learn’. I want some guidance and teaching, which it seems, from you blog, is what you like to do.
Thanks. Gretchen
January 24, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Cyprus Summers.
The island of Cypress is awash with pinks and reds and magenta bougainvilla blossoms in the summer. Breathtaking to see! Your beads put me back there.!
also, Calypso and Carnivale! you have captured the colors of the costumes of the Caribbean dancers.
…and Calypso was also the daughter of Atlas and lured Odysseus to Malta, so there i am back in the Mediterranean again!
January 24, 2007 at 4:30 pm
It looks like it segues from the garden to the woods.
How about “FlowerForest”…
or “ForestFlower”…
January 24, 2007 at 3:05 am
If “After the Frost” is too long then some other Spring adjectives like “Burst” or “Burst Fourth”…
January 23, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Thanks to you all. So many great suggestions and so much to choose from. Special thanks to Joan for including the Robert Frost poem. That concept was top on my list…if only we could find 1 word to capture that whole sentiment. Aurora, solar glow and sorbet are also on target.
January 23, 2007 at 5:38 pm
I forgot this one in the last post
Sedona
January 23, 2007 at 5:02 pm
desert spring
prickly pear
desert skies
January 23, 2007 at 12:39 pm
I had thought of saris as well when I saw the colors. Perhaps “Saffron and Silk”. Or “East India Company”.
January 23, 2007 at 12:03 am
How about “Succulence”?
January 22, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Dragon’s Song. (I see “music” in the evening sunset of the colors)
January 22, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Thanks everyone!
Lots of floral names. I see Thai Silks –
and Indian Saris.
Keep the ideas coming . . .
January 22, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Stargazer Lily
OR
Lily Romance
January 22, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Hibiscus Dawn
January 22, 2007 at 1:18 pm
fiesta rainbow!
January 22, 2007 at 6:04 am
Beautiful colors, Elise. I would call it “Rhapsody of colors”
January 21, 2007 at 8:19 pm
“Rhododendron” or “Azalea”
January 21, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Beautiful blends! My first thought was the night sky. Perhaps, Aurora Borealis ,Night Sky, Night Glow, Solar Glow…..”aurora polaris”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(astronomy)#Aurora_in_folklore
Good luck.
January 21, 2007 at 6:32 pm
How about “After the Frost”. It looks like the first blooms of Spring bursting then darkening. And that reminds me of Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold Can Stay
“Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
January 21, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I see a wonderful “Tropical Island”.
January 21, 2007 at 8:22 am
What about “forest fairy” or “fairy forest”?
January 21, 2007 at 11:32 am
sunrise over the fields
January 21, 2007 at 2:47 am
Rose Garden
January 20, 2007 at 11:34 pm
I would call this beautiful blend of colors “Sage and Sherbet” or “Sherbet and Sage”.