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1. I bought some ground tumeric today, and was marveling at the intense goldenrod color of it! I am very partial to hot, intense colors.
2. The color of an perfectly ripe avocado when you slice it in half; the yellow-green near the pit is my favorite part!
3. Midnight blue (a Crayola color) when the sky is just about 30 seconds between dusk and pitch black.
What's yours, and why?
Raspberry pink, cobalt blue and navy. I feel wonderful when I wear any clothes with these colours and a room feels welcoming with them in it.
It would be easier to list the ones I don't like. But off the top of my head: puce, chartreuse, and cerise.
ETA: Oh, why? I mostly like a warm color palette, and all those colors are pretty warm. Even chartreuse, which has been a favorite since I used to spend nights in a bedroom in my grandmother's house that my aunt had painted in her favorite colors--chartreuse and deep cerise. But deep coral is more interesting with puce and chartreuse. Or maybe chrome yellow...Really, there are very few colors I don't like in the right combination. I even like taupe. I guess I don't like mauve...But I could be convinced. Hmmm. I notice that most of my colors have French names. That probably says something profound about me...I like complementary colors a lot. (You look lovely tonight. Merci!) Don't get me started.
Depends on colors for what. I like soft neutrals like gray, light brown for house interiors. I find these colors soothing. For clothing, I like orangey (coral, watermelon) or brownish (apple blossom) pinks, light aqua/teal, cobalt blue, red, because I get compliments when I wear these colors. For flowers its red (but not red roses), raspberry, blue, pale pink, because I like the way they look together.
Tussiemussies
12-12-13, 10:46pm
White, yellow and light blue. In the Hindu religion these are considered the most Sattvic --spiritually pure colors that are most beneficial. Love light pink and that too is spiritually beneficial but not as much as the first three.....
catherine
12-12-13, 11:49pm
Red
Sage green
Periwinkle
My color preferences are dependent upon where they are. So, in my home, deep brown is a current fav, along with turquoise. For my clothing, blues, lavenders, black, & garnet are current favs.
goldensmom
12-13-13, 6:46am
Red
Yellow
Coral
I am drawn to mountain, sea and sky colors - cerulean blues, steely grays, deep greens. That being said my home decor colors are the opposite - warm reds, golds and browns.
When we were picking out colors for the new house we wanted to be edgy and modern and get away from the earth tones we've worked around for the last few decades. We're not hip enough for "radiant orchid", but did bring home all the shades of gray and things like that. We both picked our favorite chips independently. Fortunately our picks were really REALLY close to each other. Unfortunately they were... You guessed it, earthtones. C'est la guerre. My 3 favorite earth tones are:
Bittersweet (deep orange, now on our kitchen cabinets)
Lime green, like the inside of a lime
The gold that a wheat field gets just before harvest
My wife tells me that I'm not qualified to comment as I seem to only be aware of primary colors. She may be right since I don't have any idea what Periwinkle or Garnet might look like, but I do know what I like.
Black, as in my last 5 vehicles.
Pink, as in the center of a steak
Green, as in nature coming alive in the spring.
Miss Cellane
12-13-13, 2:51pm
celadon green
pale pink
emerald green
I have no idea what this says about me.
The red that shows through the grey if you look very closely at my African Grey Parrot's feathers.
The brown in one of my dog's eyes when he's looking at me.
The different shades of wood together on one tree.
Red grass
IshbelRobertson
12-13-13, 5:25pm
Ivory
Duck egg blue
Sage green
Pink and gray for clothes. Red for vehicles. New England fall foliage reds and golds for the season. Basic white for nearly everything else
Gardenarian
12-13-13, 9:52pm
1. I bought some ground tumeric today, and was marveling at the intense goldenrod color of it! I am very partial to hot, intense colors.
2. The color of an perfectly ripe avocado when you slice it in half; the yellow-green near the pit is my favorite part!
3. Midnight blue (a Crayola color) when the sky is just about 30 seconds between dusk and pitch black.
What's yours, and why?
My 3 are almost identical to your's! In fact I dyed my sheets with turmeric because I like the color so much. And I always used up the Midnight Blue crayon first.
I'm also partial to geranium pink (Crayola carnation.)
1. I bought some ground tumeric today, and was marveling at the intense goldenrod color of it! I am very partial to hot, intense colors.
2. The color of an perfectly ripe avocado when you slice it in half; the yellow-green near the pit is my favorite part!
3. Midnight blue (a Crayola color) when the sky is just about 30 seconds between dusk and pitch black.
What's yours, and why?
Green. Other greens. The way green leaves look when the sun shines through them. But also when the sun shines through golden leaves. Green and gold (natural hues) are my favorite. But that magic color of the gloaming you mention? That's special too.
Pantone color of the year...
http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/index.aspx
Thanks every one for your input! I just LOVE colors, I LOVE eye feasts, I LOVE the paint chip section of the home improvement store!
I found this interesting to realize the color palette I have been really interested in for a while and finds its way into my artwork are the colors found in old croquet sets, you know, the colored paint bands around the mallet. Dulled and beaten down primary colors. These are also the colors of the wooden shutters of the 1920's cabins we used to go to up in Northern Michigan on Elk Lake when I was a kid. Often times these colors are also found in old board game sets...
Though my downstairs (living room, dinette, and kitchen) are saffron orange and spring green, with touches of that tumeric color and chocolate brown. I know it probably sounds a little weird but the effect is very cozy. My bedroom is greens and blues, with a touch of lime/celadon. Mostly everything I own was procured by thrifting and acquiring things from my parents basement, and gifts. Very eclectic, but so am I!
Miss Cellane
12-14-13, 10:20am
SiouzQ, if you like playing around with color, you might like this site: http://design-seeds.com/
JaneV2.0
12-14-13, 10:59am
I once collected one of every Dutch Boy color paint swatch available at a home improvement store. I felt slightly guilty--but since they don't sell a collection (which I would buy in an instant)--not too guilty. Pantone's collection is outrageously overpriced.
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