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Please help with color!

Hi everyone. I’m going for the vintage vibe, and really want to add some color into my living room. I was thinking a clay color on the tv wall? My entryway is dark olive by Benjamin Moore. Please help!

u/idintknow2 — 8 hours ago
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Colours you can mix with watercolour paint sets

I thought that some folks might find this interesting, it's part of the output from some R&D I'm working on for a project that maps the reachable colours by mixing each of the 2 paints in popular watercolour paint sets. I measure the spectral data for each paint (how much is scattered, absorbed at each wavelength) then simulate blending each pair at every ratio. Each pair traces a path through 3D colour space (CIELAB here), and together those paths build the colourful cloud you see.

The idea is to help identify which paints to add to your collection if you want to work on a particular subject, like landscapes, botanicals or portraits or just explore the gamut available.

This particular one is from the Van Gogh Watercolour Pocket Box.

u/jmstach — 11 hours ago
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What color do you associate with your state?

What color do you associate with your state?

Long story, but I am a printing press operator/graphic designer/ photographer obsessed with color. I was lying awake at 2am a few nights ago thinking about how humans associate things with a color (example, "fresh" and "sick" can both be attributed to green, "love" and "rage" can both be associated with red) and I started thinking about what color I would associate with each state in the US (where I am from). Arizona was easy, rusty red for the rocks. Vermont was also easy, green, trees, green mountain, etc. Then I started getting into the woods a bit. Colorado, to me, is a muted purple, almost like a dusty mauve, but I don't know why. Probably a photo I saw once of mountain ranges or something. Pirple mountains majesty? Who knows... Ohio (where I am from) the best I could come up with was gray, for the skies since we spend so much of our year in gloom. My fiance said "red" for Ohio, but couldn't tell me why, just that is the first thing that came to mind. I asked if it was because the state bird (another obsession of mine) is the Northern Cardinal but he said nope, no reasoning, that's just the color that struck him.

So now I am determined to do a bit of an anthropological experiment, and my family and friends on Facebook don't indulge my autism anymore LOL

So I am here, asking the question.

Name a state, the color you associate with that state, and why. Also open to other countries if that tickles your fancy.

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u/Melicious-Jellybeans — 1 day ago
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I decided to go with neither of the options from my last post. I’ve got two more sequences and I’m leaning towards the second

I just feel like the pink and purple look too similar when they’re too far apart. Also I’m not a fan of the green next to the yellow.

u/FireReaper52 — 20 hours ago
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Which sequence looks better?

Or if you have another suggestion I’d be happy to hear

u/FireReaper52 — 2 days ago
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These are the 8 colours that matter most. Colours like Orange, Brown, Pink etc should be treated as type of these colours.

Red, Blue, Green, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, White and Black.

Orange/Brown should be grouped under either Yellow or Red.

Purple/Violet should be grouped under either Blue or Magenta.

Pinks should be grouped under Magenta or Red.

Most "Blues" should be split between Cyan and Blue.

Magenta's shouldn't be treated like a type of Pink and Cyan shouldn't be considered a type of blue imo.

u/Better_Surround3158 — 2 days ago
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Ngl i love this color. Its code is #271932 and is appreantly named Ink-Stained Amethyst. Just wanted to share it after finding it when i was messing with the colors in paint. My personal fav is stilll blood red but this looks nice as well

u/Itchy-Sense547 — 1 day ago
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Piece by Piece

24 x 30 canvas by able6 (me)

u/able6art — 2 days ago
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MACRAME

Please remember that when buying handmade products, you are buying more than just the product itself; you are buying the effort put into it.

u/Macrame_boutique — 1 day ago