{"id":357,"date":"2007-09-20T14:22:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T07:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=357"},"modified":"2007-09-22T04:33:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T21:33:59","slug":"fall-colors-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2007\/09\/fall-colors-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Colors 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pantone.jpg\"<\/a>Since summer ends this weekend,\u00a0let’s look at some of the color forecasts for the\u00a0Fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even though I don’t believe that color forecasts are always accurate, it is fun to look at them and find colors that you might like to try in your work.<\/p>\n

This Fall’s\u00a0Pantone Colors<\/a> are a mixture of deep earths, soft earth pastels and a few lightened up rainbow colors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Its not\u00a0an especially\u00a0smashing group of colors but the idea is not to use them all\u00a0together but to use a few of them to add fresh flavors to\u00a0stale color combinations.<\/p>\n

In addition to\u00a0black and gray (the perennial neutral favorites for fall and winter) the colors that\u00a0I like the best for this season are\u00a0Carafe\u00a0–\u00a0a variation of last years dark chocolate brown, Stargazer –\u00a0a\u00a0deep peacock blue, and Dusk – a\u00a0slightly muted periwinkle blue.<\/p>\n

The combination of darks and pastels in stripes and prints is still a popular trend. You might want to try some new pairings; Chili Pepper with Green Moss, Purple Wine with Deep Ochre, Stargazer with Shale Green.<\/p>\n

CAUS is a member organization. You have to be a member to get the advance forecasts but they publish the current forecast for free on their website.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Color Association of US fall colors<\/a> for interiors and men’s, women’s, and youth’s fashions\u00a0include more colors than the Pantone forecast.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Go to “Color Trends” and then open the “Interactive Color Forecast.” The site allows you to look at the colors in three textures and to play with creating different groupings of colors.<\/p>\n

The forecasts are fun to look at but don’t depend on them for creating your fall palette.\u00a0Use them to\u00a0give you a\u00a0feeling for current color trends. And use them for inspiration.<\/p>\n

Mixing Exercise<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clay is on sale for .99 at Michaels this week. Buy some Premo Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow, Fuchsia and try to make colors to match the forecast with just these three primaries plus white. Here are some formulas that will get you close.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Note that one unit can be any size you like. The samples I made are all close to 16 units. I like to use a\u00a01\/2″ square or circle cutter to cut the units from a sheet of clay rolled out on thickest setting of the pasta machine.<\/p>\n

You will want to tweak these colors to work with your fall palette. Have fun mixing and matching these new colors with your old favorites!<\/p>\n

Formulas\u00a0for Pantone Colors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carafe:\u00a03 cobalt, 8 z.yellow,\u00a06 fuchsia<\/p>\n

Burnt Ochre: 1\/8 cobalt,\u00a03 z.yellow,\u00a05 fuchsia, 8 white<\/p>\n

Chili Pepper:\u00a00 cobalt,\u00a03 z.yellow,\u00a010 fuchsia,\u00a02\u00a0white<\/p>\n

Stargazer: 14 cobalt, 1.5 z.yellow, 1 fuchsia<\/p>\n

Shale Green:\u00a05 cobalt,\u00a03 z.yellow, 1\/4 fuchsia, 9 white<\/p>\n

Dusk: 4 cobalt,\u00a00 z.yellow, 2 fuchsia,\u00a011 white<\/p>\n

Green Moss:\u00a02 cobalt,\u00a06 z.yellow,\u00a02.5 fuchsia,\u00a06 white<\/p>\n

Lemon Curry:\u00a00\u00a0cobalt, 16 z.yellow,\u00a01\/16\u00a0fuchsia<\/p>\n

Cashmere Rose: 1\/2\u00a0cobalt, 1\/2 z.yellow, 4 fuchsia, 12 white<\/p>\n

Purple Wine: 1\/2\u00a0cobalt,\u00a00 z.yellow,\u00a013\u00a0fuchsia,\u00a03\u00a0white<\/p>\n

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Since summer ends this weekend,\u00a0let’s look at some of the color forecasts for the\u00a0Fall.\u00a0 Even though I don’t believe that color forecasts are always accurate, it is fun to look at them and find colors that you might like to try in your work. This Fall’s\u00a0Pantone Colors are a mixture of deep earths, soft earth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living-with-color-2","category-polymer-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}