Continued from Nature's Color Palettes: A Few More
I'm still taking photos to play with for color palettes.
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| Moss |
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| Moss color palette |
By using Gimp photo editor's zoom, I was able to find "hidden" colors, like the orangey browns in the moss.
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| Quartz |
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| Quartz color palette |
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| Fungi |
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| Fungi color palette |
Interestingly, the fungi color palette is very similar to the natural colors of Shetland sheep fleece.
It also reminded me of one of the samples I wove for my Crackle sampler with natural, medium brown, and dark gray yarns.
Maybe that's why the color combination was so appealing to me.
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| Palette of natural cotton colors |
Observations:
- My winter season color palettes are primarily browns, grays, blues, and greens
- The greens are mostly warm greens.
- Also, I'm realizing how much my eye blends and assumes what colors I'm seeing. When I use the photo editor color picker, I get the color of one pixel which sometimes surprises me because my brain has interpreted the blend of colors differently.
- Because of that, I have to admit that these palettes are only possible because I'm using a computer.
- And that has me wondering about color blending in weaving, which is a complex topic.
- Lots more to ponder and explore.
2 comments:
I'm surprised your app didn't pick up even brighter tones, like red and peach, in the quartz photo!
Michelle, they might have been there, but I only randomly chose a dozen or so samples. I don't know if it would be possible to find all possible samples, but I wonder. It's an interesting exercise.
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