Color Palettes… Green(ery) Christmas: Pantone’s 2017 Color of the Year! 12 Dec 201612 Dec 2016 It's official: Pantone*, the standard-bearer for all things color-related, has announced its 2017 Color of the Year! Meet Greenery! Continue reading "Green(ery) Christmas: Pantone’s 2017 Color of the Year!"
Color Palettes… Shady Business: My Ombré Bracelet Beading Chart 28 Aug 201628 Aug 2016 Colormusing's Palette of the Month for August is Seaspray, inspired by this beaded bracelet that blends iridescent silver, emerald green, and ultramarine blue into this amazing ombré bracelet: Continue reading…
Color Palettes… Tutorial: A Palette Changes its Stripes 14 Aug 2016 As much as I love my colorful stripe-y palettes (and I do), even I am occasionally in the mood for something a little fancier. Here's one of my favorite ways…
Color Palettes… Read My New Article: Color in Your Closet 13 Aug 201613 Aug 2016 Just published in Colette Patterns' sewing magazine Seamwork: My latest article on using color palettes in real life! It's called Color in Your Closet: Discover (and Use) the Palette Within.…
Color Palettes… Catch the Wave: Alter a Palette for Fun! 19 Jun 2016 In my last post, I introduced you to the idea of easily expanding the color range of a basic color palette by using the Mosaic filter in Photoshop. Now, starting…
Color Palettes… Expansion Plan: An Easy Way to Add Colors to your Palette 30 May 201630 May 2016 Here's something I recently discovered by accident (isn't that always the way?): Starting with one of my color palettes, which typically have a maximum of 5 colors, I can expand…
Color Palettes… Hip to be Square: Creating & Using Mosaic Backgrounds 5 Apr 20167 Apr 2016 Filed under Good News & Bad News: The good news is that Shutterstock, one of the largest stock photography companies, has accepted my work to sell on their site! Yes,…
Color Palettes… We Heart Palettes: A Love-Type Tutorial 14 Feb 201614 Feb 2016 Valentines. Hearts, flowers, pink, red, shiny, chocolate-y, sparkly, sweet— today, they're all around us, in fact, we can't get away from them. But here's the thing: I really wanted to…
Color Palettes… Colors of the Year: Making Pink & Blue Work for You 15 Dec 201516 Dec 2015 As I mentioned in my recent post following Pantone's announcement of their co-Colors of the Year (COTY), Pink Quartz and Serenity, my initial reaction was, well, raised eyebrows (she understated.)…
Color Palettes… Pantone Announces 2016 Color(s) of the Year! 3 Dec 20155 Dec 2015 Just in from the color gurus at Pantone: For 2016, there's not one, but two Colors of the Year! I present to you... Rose Quartz and Serenity! Continue reading "Pantone…
