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 prompted her to find colors that suggested garden spaces, rather than pick random
paint swatches at the hardware store.
Not exact matches
Look
at this post I just did & you can see how OFF the SW website is, compared to the real
paint swatch (http://www.sandandsisal.com/2013/08/oyster-bay-and-retreat.html).
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paint swatches!
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».
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.
Because we had already installed bead board on the lower half of the room, it felt less daunting to choose a deep, saturated green for the walls above, and after squinting
at countless
swatches, we finally landed on a
paint color.
Until one day I was
at Lowe's, looking through their
paint swatches, and came across something similar, but a little softer, that I liked: Valspar's Ocean Voyage:
It's impossible to walk by the
paint aisle
at any home improvement store and not grab a few
swatches.
After two weeks of living with 8
paint swatches on the wall we have finally narrowed it down to 1 (
at this time I have to still add, I think that's the one).
I understand how difficult it can be to make a color choice sometimes (i.e.
painting walls and looking
at a trillion
paint swatches) so I admire your bold decision and even more the outcome of the chair.
The day he left, I bought sample pots of
paint...... and stared
at swatches on the wall... I went with the second sample from the right - a Sherwin -LSB-...]
I've only
painted a
swatch on the wall because I can't seem to find the time or motivation to do anymore than that and I was very surprised
at how light it is.
Before you go all out
at the
paint store, purchase test pots of your chosen palette and get to work
painting a
swatch on your walls.
I have
paint swatches everywhere
at my house and none of them are right.
Hi Trisha, they have the formula
at Home Depot in their computer, it's just not one of their main
paint swatches, it's from the fan deck.
Fabric - covered
paint canisters and books are pretty ways to collect project supplies, while
swatch baskets below the work surface keep clutter
at bay.
To avoid color overload, match
paint swatches to a pattern, but then use the color
at the top of the
swatch for your walls.
Look
at this post I just did & you can see how OFF the SW website is, compared to the real
paint swatch (http://www.sandandsisal.com/2013/08/oyster-bay-and-retreat.html).
Test
paint in large
swatches on your walls and examine the options
at different times of day with different light fixtures on.
After trying several different
paint swatches around the room
at different times of the day, I narrowed the living room
paint down to 3 possible colours.