Color Theory

Idee Multicolor

Posted by: Valerie on: October 29, 2008

Idee Multicolor screenshot

The Idee Multicolr tool lets you choose one, two, or more colors, and then it displays Flickr images with those colors in them.  Find monochromatic photos or create your own color palette of photos.

Spectrum

Posted by: Valerie on: November 18, 2007

Spectrum on Flickr

For very focused and colorful Polaroid photos, check out the photography of Grant Hamilton on Flickr.

Colorful felt

Posted by: Valerie on: November 3, 2007

felt on Flickr

Stargazer Lily

Posted by: Valerie on: August 31, 2007

Aren’t the colors just lovely?

I used this photo to make a ColourLovers palette as well:

Colorful Post-It Notes Art

Posted by: Valerie on: August 31, 2007

There’s a fun article on ColourLovers.com about making art out of Post-It notes, using the limited color palette they come in.

Some of the examples they show are quite stunning, especially the one covering the walls of someone’s living room.

Post-it Art: Productivity in Many Wonderful Colors

Kardelen

Posted by: Valerie on: June 4, 2007

Kardelen

Kardelen is a Swedish linens company that has an amazing variety of products in lovely colors and patterns. Their web site is a treasure trove of inspiration for color combinations, and has plenty to browse through and check out, even if you’re not shopping for any housewares.

Colour Lovers Palette: Kardelen Moss

Posted by: Valerie on: June 4, 2007

Kardelen Moss

Colour Lovers now has the option to grab a bit of code to display a palette or color on your web site. Very cool, and you can choose to show off your own work — that’s mine above — or someone else’s.

Isa Form

Posted by: Valerie on: May 24, 2007

Isa Form

If you’re looking for stylishly designed art for your own, but would like to have some choice in the colors used, check out Isa Form. Isabelle Norman’s unique shop lets you choose a motif for your piece, and then pick a predefined colorway or customize your own using her color palette. Not only are the designs lovely, but the color combinations are quite nice.

Claude Monet on Color

Posted by: Valerie on: March 31, 2007

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

Claude Monet (1840–1926), French painter. Quoted in Claude Monet: Les Nymphéas, ch. 2 (1926).

Remark to Georges Clemenceau.

Aqua/Blue + Red

Posted by: Valerie on: March 26, 2007