Colour Study - Peacock

As part of my blog-a-day challenge for October I am writing a series of colour studies from my own photographs - this image is of the free roaming Peacock that lives in at our local city farm.

I'm using a program called Chip It which is a free app that samples any image and picks out a colour palette using over Sherwin-Williams paint colours. The final challenge for me is to use representative colour palette as inspiration to select a pleasing palette in CoE 104 Glass.....

From left to right I have chosen

1. Reichenbach Intense Blue
2. Vetrofond Dark Turquoise 236
3. CiM Mermaid
4. CiM Cardamom
5. Effetre Dark Brown Special

This rich and vibrant teal blue selesction looks fab and is the sort of collection that I had hoped would come out of using Chip It to dissect this image. It is a really very restful colour palette though perhaps a touch of lime green or rich purple would give it a little touch more zing!

Jolene x
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Colour Study - Pink Tipped Chrysanthemum

The third in my series of colour studies for October is this pink tipped Chrysanthemum. I took the image last week walking back form preschool on a rainy morning.

I'm going to use a free program called Chip It which is a free app that samples any image and picks out a colour palette using over Sherwin-Williams paint colours. The final challenge for me is to try draw out a representative colour palette using CoE 104 Glass.....

The glass I have chosen for this palette from left to right is

1. Lauscha Creme Brulee
2. CiM Olive
3. Lauscha Pink Opaque
4. Effetre Handpulled Rubino Ora (old batch)
5. Reichenbach Soft Violet

I think it would have been nigh impossible to put this selection together without the inclusion of the gorgeous Handpulled Rubino Ora. There are so few of these deep rich fuchsia/magenta shades of glass available to buy in CoE 104 glass and my whole selection is two shades lighter across the board than I would have liked to be able to create but I think the relationships between the glass rods is similar to the Chip It palette for this image. 

Jolene x
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Colour Study - Violet Poppies

The second in my colour study series, looking at creating working colour palettes for CoE 104 Soda Lime Glass from images I have taken on the daily school run or around and about doing everyday things with my children - this one is a picture of some Violet Poppies from our garden

I'm using an app called Chip It which is a free program that samples any image and picks out a colour palette using over 1500 Sherwin-Williams paint colours.The final challenge for me is to select a representative colour palette in glass...

From left to right the glass I have selected is

1. CiM Sherwood
2. Effetre Striped Pink 253
3. CiM Mulberry
4. CiM Canary
5. Reichenbach Mystic Grey

This colour palette has worked out really well and has a super kind of feel good factor about it. I love the canary yellow in amongst all of these other harmonious colours and think it simply POPS!

A special thank you to Sue of FlamingEck who has massively inspired this colour study series of blog posts with her Pantone colour matching glass antics.

Jolene x
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Colour Study - Fir Tree

As part of my blog-a-day challenge for October I am planning a series of colour studies from photographs taken on my daily school run - this one is a picture of some kind of fir or evergreen tree.

I'm going to use a free program called Chip It which is a free app that samples any image and picks out a colour palette using over Sherwin-Williams paint colours. The final challenge for me is to try draw out a representative colour palette using CoE 104 Glass.....

From left to right the glass I have chosen is

1. CiM Fremen
2. CiM Rainforest
3. CiM Glacier
4. CiM Chalcedony
5. Reichenbach Dense Blue

This first attempt at selecting a working colour palette from a real image that I have taken myself has been a very interesting process. It feels like I have been playing Chinese Whispers with colour and at every stage my options of colour selection have become fewer. From life to digital capture, then using the Chip It app to massively simplify the image to a selection of just 10 definitive shades from a mere 1500+ options of recorded colour data (of which I have chosen to show just 5). The last simplification is to select my best fit from the glass I have available to me here in my studio which I estimate at best is no more than 200 different shades and hues. What seemed like a mountain of raw materials and possibilities available to me this morning now seems like a drop in a tiny ocean in  terms of real world colour now. Hopefully you see what I see though, a pleasing and harmonious working palette for bead making.

Jolene x

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