As someone who sorts anything and everything into color flows, I love the hurleygurley photo site sent in by Christelle.  Its fabulous. It reminds me of Jinny Beyers book Confidence for Quilters. Although its over ten years old, its one of the best books I know on creating color combinations that flow beautifully together. Her […]

Complementary colors do not have to be exact opposites to add hue contrast to a composition. This complementary colors exhibition gallery is not that strict about perfect complements. It doesn’t matter whether orange or yellow is the opposite of blue. Color contrast makes this photo a winner. The rules are tougher, and follow traditional color theory, […]

                  When I look at other artists’ work the first thing I respond to is COLOR. Then shape. Then imagery.  A few years ago I was teaching in Santa Fe and saw the works of fiber artist Kay Kahn for the first time. I was blown away. […]

I thought polymer artists were the only ones making color charts with blobs of color until I came across Crazy Aaron’s site. As a compulsive color mixer I may have to get the Hot Pink, Yellow and Lapis and start making my own favorites. Check out the gorgeous hot and cold Hypercolors!  Wonder what would happen if you mixed […]

Happy New Year! I am spending the weekend in Seattle with my sister and her family. To celebrate I want to share a great site for color inspiration – Fractal Arts by Seattle artist Doug Harrington. Its one of the best I know for viewing fractal prints and is packed with gorgeous images. Be sure to check out all […]

I don’t know if this beautiful and amazing commercial is already out there but I just love the combination of music, movement and color. It is not digitized. And the buildings are not models. They really did use all that paint. Be sure to turn on your sound before starting the video and afterwards scroll down […]

I remember when Gretchen Schauffler first came out with her Devine Paints. Nine years ago I was working for a design build firm here in Portland, Oregon and she came to one of our Friday staff meetings to present her new line. She was mixing the paints herself and I was so jealous. Her new website has […]

This is another one of many wonderful color tools available on the web for understanding RGB and CMY. Even though it is outdated – computers are not limited to 256 colors like they used to be – I like it because it shows the RGB, CMY and hex codes for the original websafe colors, plus it allows you […]

After marveling at the sculptured crayons of Pete Goldlust and Deim Chau on Tuesday courtesy of contributors to Cynthia Tinapple’s Polymer Clay Daily, I woke up the next day to more crayons on the front of the Living Section in our paper. “The “Crayon Man” created by Jen LaMastra was a superhero-style costume. LaMastra peeled papers […]

“I adored organizing mycolors as a child too! But I was taught to organize them as cool or warm colors.” Melanie’s comment made me think of the gorgeous cover of this book – Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments. Its a very beautiful little book with lots of color, and a good companian to Victoria Finlay’s […]