Mixing it up with color

I read an interview recently at Studio Calico.  The artist being surveyed, Beth Deckard, said teal and yellow are her favorite colors.  Mine too! I became infatuated with that color combination after watching the newest PBS version of Emma -- if you haven't seen it you have to watch.  Her dresses, the backgrounds and wallpapers, even the props,  were such great color inspirations. Along with my teal and yellow favorite, olive played against a deep red is one they use a lot in the movie. (hint: watch the wallpapers and the way her dresses work with the backgrounds.) I soaked up the movie a few times just to look at the color combinations, which of course convinced my non-artist friends that I truly was ca-ray-zeeee.  (Which of course I am.)

Coincidentally, I just had a color discussion with another artist friend of mine, Kathryn Antyr at True North Arts. I've always associated Kathryn with her artful use of a certain shade of purple, and her recent scrapings for the GPP Street team were so uniquely her own style that I'd know it was her work if it had been anonymously lined up in a row with 20 other scrapings.  Which leads me to conclude that color can be as unique a part of an artist's style as their line, form or method.

What are your favorite color combinations? If you aren't sure, look around you in magazines or movies for inspirations. Don't force it -- your eyes will find one(s) that truly makes your heart sing.  Then spend a week working with that color everywhere - in your journal, your jewelry, your knitting, your sewing.  As you can see, SOME PEOPLE even paint a few pieces of their bedroom furniture with their favorite colors. (ca-ray-zee)

                   LOVE these colors

Knobs from Anthropologie

       

ps-thanks to Julie at Balzer Designs for always referring me to such great websites. Julie is one of my major art muses.