Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Color Recipe - Paint Chips and Color Wheel to the Rescue

A couple days ago Bonnie Hunter announced the colors for the 2019/20 Frolic Mystery. Today I went to the Kelly Moore Paint store to look for paint chips in those colors. With the color tool I came up with yellow-green (3-24), aqua (8-20, blue (11-13), cerulean blue (10-8) and blue-red (18-12/13) and many light neutral colors for contrast.

Before going I had analyzed the colors and how they were spread along the color wheel. Once there I also looked at the combination below. This one was one I liked too.

 The colors would be aqua green (instead of yellow-green), yellow-orange (instead of red-blue), blue-violet (instead of aqua), red-violet (instead of blue) and purple (instead of cerulean blue).


When taking into account that the intensity of the colors varies, I come up with this palette.
The blue in the picture on the right is a bit too intense and the one below too dull... something in between.
But I kind of like the idea of rich, burnt orange with violet/purple and aqua green. I have to seen the right aqua green paint chip.

Once I look through my stash, I will know more.
Or I will go back and look at my other options.
I have written out 24 different variations.

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