Generate Your Own Color Palette

This is a tool that I am sure a lot of you will find helpful and fun to play around with. A couple of posts back I shared about Design Seed and the amazing color palettes they have. To my surprise I found out an easy way of doing it on Pinterest (via Pepper Ferguson).

With the Color Palette Generator from DeGreave, you can easily find the palette of colors used on any image on the internet. All you have to do is upload the link and it automatically generates the colors for you. I thought the Nena Sanchez painting was a good one to try out. So there you have my experiment. At the bottom you can see what I made out of it for myself using Photoshop.

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Do you sometimes wonder what colors work good together? Well Design Seeds can help with that. Jessica is the woman behind this colorful blog. Not only does she matches colors with pictures everyday, but she also has a palette search where you can start with a color and see in what pictures you can find it.

The week just started, but I already need a mental vacation. Been working so hard to get my room to look pleasant and functional. So I chose this wonderful blue palette to share today. There are much more, just head to her site to see them all. When your done, come back and share about your favorite.

Tribal jewelry color jumble

Love the colors. (Via Judie Metz on Pinterest)

Eye candy bombing

 Image credit: Picocool | Olek | BNPS

In a time when the media is filled with terrorist attacks and suicide bombing we have people doing a different type of bombing. Yarn bombing. You heard it right. It is a phenomenon happening in London, Morocco, Russia and other parts of the world. It is simply put people decorating public places with colorful knitted or crocheted pieces of yarn. A removable type of graffiti. Unlike real bombing where people actually get hurt, yarn bombing does not hurt anyone. Unless you have some kind of yarn phobia of course.

According to Wikipedia it first started in Texas and since spread to other places. Some claim that release of the book Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti was the main source to spread this phenomenon to all the corners of the earth.

There are some that do this type of artwork to make a statement, whereas there are some that does it just for the fun of it. Such is the case of Olek, an artist that clearly got annoyed with the Charging Bull in Wall Street. On Christmas eve she decorated it pink and purple and videotaped herself doing so.

As I was researching this I found that there is a whole world of these type of bombers. They have even declared June 11th as the official yarn bombing day. There will be events all over to celebrate this day.

Is this your kind of thing? Then be sure to save the date.

Exotic carretas

Costa Rican carretas (ox carts) have always fascinated me. The colors they use on each of them is so decorative and exotic. Pictures by Jerry Dodgers and Julia Korovitsyna.

Add color everywhere

Many times color is held back when decorating the inside of a house. People like to choose earth tones to make sure it does not become to busy. Here is a collection for the series "Africa meets neon" done by Inrina Graewe that proves that you can accomplish beautiful interiors using colors.