Oh Melissa, I thought I was the only one obsessing about this paint color:) I have tons
of paint swatches myself, not one of them is quite right.
For the last ten years I've been trying out paint colors and plenty of the wrong ones, and I decided it would be a really fun series to start this year sharing my favorite paint colors so you won't have to sort through hundreds
of paint swatches at the store!
This looks mighty cute so if you have lots
of paint swatches laying around, you might want to try this cool DIY project.
Inspired by a text more overtly related to Henrot's interest in taxonomy and philosophy, «The Order of Things,» Michel Foucault, is an explosion of metal odds and ends mixed with anonymous vegetation and a rainbow
of paint swatches — a colorful starburst of the playfully arbitrary.
You'll be happy to know that none
of the paint swatches on the wall made the final cut.)
Not exact matches
If you want more inspiration, check a big box
of crayons or
paint color
swatches to find even more names.
The Chalk
Paint ® colour card uses real
paint swatches to give you an accurate colour sample, with a history
of each colour.
® colour card uses real
paint swatches to give you an accurate colour sample, with a history
of each colour.
I grabbed
paint swatch palettes from Walmart with my navy blue and pink hues, cut each out with pinking shears, and taped them on the back
of my «ask» notecards.
I never considered the combination until my Enchanting green
paint swatch accidentally fell on top
of some black and white fabric and I was like...
The kit came with everything I needed to stencil a pillow: a stenciling frame, a reusable pillow stencil, a 17» x 17» cotton pillow cover, a pillow insert: linen / down alternative, a mini roller and 1/2 ″ stencil brush, a
paint tray and stirring stick, a free mini stencil and practice fabric
swatch, full color instructions, and one fabric
paint of my choice.
bedroom color images this is a similar color
swatch to what are planning on but two tones
of bedroom
paint color ideas pictures.
-LCB-... after I texted my real interior designer and blogger friend Stephanie a
paint swatch and told her she had approx. 10 minutes to talk me out
of it! -RCB-
I love that everyday is different, on Monday I might be in the office all day buried under
paint swatches and chandelier options with my shoes off and four cups
of coffee on my desk, Tuesday could be an install where I'm driving around town with my contractor (who is my actual hero), and assembling furniture alongside him, or getting nervous as he drills into a pristine tile wall (even though he has NEVER made a mistake) to hang the new shelving.
I HIGHLY recommend
painting a test
swatch because a lot
of the colors dry quite differently.
Jessica Eaton, Additive Colour Wheel in 12 parts:
swatches mixed in camera via filtration
of the primaries Red, Green, Blue, Triangular Pyramid base
paint 9 % Grey, 2012, archival pigment print, 50 x 40 inches.
The lightness
of being in his work, the range
of forms, contours, edges, saturations and coloring — and the lightness
of the spaces in between his network
of slashes,
swatches, and other painterly exchanges, is so navigable for the eye that the
paintings are airy, permeable, and most significantly, written in a language that is all his own.
Painted on leather
swatches, the artist does not wish to portray a continuing likeness or demeanor
of her friend, but rather to capture her impression
of the sitter each time they meet.
Patches
of red and orange cover black squiggles and newspaper clippings, and
painted swatches of recycled fabric are interspersed with color - washed comicstrips.
As vibrant
swatches these photographs remind addition to the Color Field
painting of the 1950s and avant - garde compositional schemes.
Each
painting is overlaid with assorted items at their actual size:
swatches, notes, photos, prints, rulers, drips, scribbles, spills, and yards
of colored tape.
Dean and
Swatch have collaborated at several occasions and most notably with the realization
of a box set
of 5 limited edition watches»
painted time».
For a new sculpture project he recycles bundled stacks
of flattened cardboard into anthropomorphic monsters with enormous googly eyed stares, and the artist's iconic panda returns in large - scale pattern
paintings like enormous
swatches of custom designed fabric.
For ten months
of 2013, she determined the color
of the sky by finding the perfectly matching Behr commercial
paint swatch and documented the match with a photograph.
For ten months
of 2013, she determined the color
of the sky by finding the perfectly matching commercial
paint swatch and documented the match with a photograph.
Back in New York in 1953, he made
paintings out
of substances as varied as gold and dirt, returning to
paint to work, this time, primarily in red on canvas enriched with fabric
swatches, newspaper, and bits
of wood.
Also in 2001, Simmons began her «Instant Decorator» series, which was based on a 1976 interior decorating book
of the same name, that provided templates
of household rooms for the client to fill with
swatches of fabric and
paint samples.
Bigger
swatches of primary color
painted wet on wet mix, too, to give sumptuous shades that almost match the intruders.
These provide instant, ready - made abstract compositions; their geometric shapes and rainbow palette again aesthetically reference the 60s in the form
of Bridget Riley «s colourful Op Art canvases or, more recently, Gerhard Richter's painstakingly uniform «colour
swatch»
paintings.
She bought 15 headboards
of differing styles, sizes and eras, bolted them together and
painted them with
swatches of red, yellow, white and black.
With
swatches of white over the thrusting black verticals and arcs, Ninth Street believes the misleading assumption that Kline simply
painted heavy black strokes over white backgrounds.
Other works combine drawings
of Cheney and Rumsfeld with
paint swatches and parlor - style wallpaper that would be a perfectly quaint backdrop for a Condi Rice piano recital.
At the same time as this exhibition in London, visitors to the 57th Venice Biennale will be greeted by a monumental
painted installation covering the façade
of The
Swatch Pavilion, for whom he has also designed a
Swatch Art Special watch.
A certain material vagueness in pigmented paper pulp thus seems ideal for Stockholder, who has always enjoyed the erasure
of distinctions: between gross matter and art, composition and formlessness, narrative and abstraction, sculpture and
painting... «Having arrived at the Mill with digital prints
of objects she photographed in her years and studio (bright plastic bowls and containers, a drinking bottle, some gaudy cakes that had seen better times) along with real objects (fabric
swatches, the floor mat) she proceeded to collage and emboss them in stretches
of pigmented paper pulp, working in collaboration with Paul Wong.
Humphries's own first abstraction was a
painting of a
swatch of fabric.
In producing his new series
of photographs,
Paint by Numbers, Allen has gone to the hardware store and has selected standard
paint swatches to use as his primary generative medium.
Titles offered in the
paint swatches are implicative: his deftly cut figures reference popular subjects, each
of which are enlisted by the name
of the
paint sample they are carved into.
For these pieces, I begin with a plein air watercolor or oil landscape and deconstruct the colors, transposing the
paintings into color
swatches of vibrant colored pulp.
The
painting is simultaneously a fantastical terrain, a crazy quilt made
of beaded
swatches, and an abstract
painting.
For instance, her early mimetically
painted images
of flowers and birds, framed by penciled grids,
paint swatches, and tonal scales, struck me as an incisively beautiful study
of the contradiction between image making and the physical reality
of paint.
Bright
swatches of painted color interrupt their near - religious austerity.
A compilation
of raster dots act out a classical scene
of nude, female bathers enveloped in
swatches of white, yellow, red and blue
paint.
His «Eyeglass»
paintings, on
swatches of brush abstractions, feature images
of characters delineating spaces that feel like theatrical stages on which actions occur.
In his newest series, Harpoons for hunting rainbows, he crafts standing totems by wrapping variously colored skeins
of yarn around tree branches and adorns them with braided fabric
swatches and
paint, which is either in the form
of dried globules
of congealed pigment or freshly applied directly to the branch.
While Laget doesn't plan out her colors in advance, she does make her own
swatches of colors and consider them carefully before applying
paint to a shaped canvas.
Self creates large patchworks combining
painting,
swatches of fabric, and canvas that examine the black female body in the present.
Each
painting consists
of swatches of oil
paint perfectly chosen by color layered upon layer, and with tiny
painted out imperfections beneath allowed to flicker through.
A selection
of materials in we float above to spit and sing includes: wood,
paint, stainless steel, wigs, prosthetic silicon, makeup, bristle cone pine wood, brass, marine resin, medical arm cast, cell phones, jewelry, clothing, dried Himalayan wild flowers, ancient pottery shards, SeaMarker rescue dye, gem stones, mineral fragments, global meteorite fragments, fabric
swatches from ethnographic blankets, coral, vitamins, Adderall and morphine.
When he titles an oil on linen work depicting a freshly
painted room Quiet Grace (2011) it elevates the mundane scene
of drop cloths, a ladder, and
paint color
swatches to an unapparent seriousness, and his masterful application
of light versus shadow and flat versus slick color give the scene the psychological resonance
of the sublime.
Robarts even stipulates that upon purchase, collectors must complete the work by
painting the color
swatches themselves, in a radical, politicized act
of class reversal: the buyer becomes the hired hand.