Color Me FINISHED
Aug. 20th, 2007 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
d_aulnoyContentment
Dragonfly
Eclectic
Enchantment
Encore
Fairy Dust
I Love A Parade (sic)
Jazzfest
Lithadora (? ... ah, Google image search tells me it's an )
Pledge of Allegiance
Starry Sky
and, finally, Calypso.
These are all variants of the purplish blue-grey shade that I wanted to paint my study, some lighter, and some darker. Looking at these names, would you have guessed that any of these were, in fact, variants of the color commonly known as indigo?
I feel for the paint color designers, really I do: while there are myriad colors in the world, we tend to have fairly limited names for them ... once you're designated a shade of blue that's rich and vivid with the faintest of green shadings "cerulean", what the hell do you do when you lighten it with a dash of black; call it by the uninspiring "dark cerulean", or say, sod this for a game of soldiers, and go for something as weirdly nondescriptive as Rhapsody?
That's really what got me after my umpteenth afternoon in the paint section, I think: the subjectivity. I mean, I like dark cerulean as much as the next girl, but I wouldn't say that it sends me into ecstasy. Similarly, Contentment is apparently just a bit darker than Eclectic (which seems counter-intuitive, somehow), and while I like both concepts ... I dunno. If I wanted to give into complete synaesthesia, I'd say contentment, as a concept, should be more of a rosy peach, and eclecticism, whatever it wanted to be (most likely tie-dye). I guess I'm not the only person who feels this way, as one particularly uninspired shade was titled, I swear to god, Enough Already!
Well, finally, I can say Enough Already!, because the painting is done. One wall of the study is Calypso-indigo (I'd initially been tempted by Fairy Dust and Enchantment, just for the names, before realizing that I kinda preferred the other shade ... and while I would have preferred Circe, this has enough of a classical reference to satisfy my allusion-lovin' personality), our dining room is, god help us all, Limoges (I did not, in this case, pursue the appropriate allusion ... instead, it kind of found us, as it was the only color we could agree on), and the dressing area, which enjoyed a brief period of being vibrant crimson (otherwise known as Victorian Red) is now a nice soft gold which actually matches the Calyndigo, as opposed to clashing with it in the manner of an wine-based Molotov cocktail. Ah ....
... Contentment.
ETA: Have just had the ... not Freudian, but at least disconcerting, realization that I will not have to post any kind of swatches or images or anything to show y'all the color I was looking for, because, guess what? It's my LJ background.
Well, at least I'm consistent ....
Dragonfly
Eclectic
Enchantment
Encore
Fairy Dust
I Love A Parade (sic)
Jazzfest
Lithadora (? ... ah, Google image search tells me it's an )
Pledge of Allegiance
Starry Sky
and, finally, Calypso.
These are all variants of the purplish blue-grey shade that I wanted to paint my study, some lighter, and some darker. Looking at these names, would you have guessed that any of these were, in fact, variants of the color commonly known as indigo?
I feel for the paint color designers, really I do: while there are myriad colors in the world, we tend to have fairly limited names for them ... once you're designated a shade of blue that's rich and vivid with the faintest of green shadings "cerulean", what the hell do you do when you lighten it with a dash of black; call it by the uninspiring "dark cerulean", or say, sod this for a game of soldiers, and go for something as weirdly nondescriptive as Rhapsody?
That's really what got me after my umpteenth afternoon in the paint section, I think: the subjectivity. I mean, I like dark cerulean as much as the next girl, but I wouldn't say that it sends me into ecstasy. Similarly, Contentment is apparently just a bit darker than Eclectic (which seems counter-intuitive, somehow), and while I like both concepts ... I dunno. If I wanted to give into complete synaesthesia, I'd say contentment, as a concept, should be more of a rosy peach, and eclecticism, whatever it wanted to be (most likely tie-dye). I guess I'm not the only person who feels this way, as one particularly uninspired shade was titled, I swear to god, Enough Already!
Well, finally, I can say Enough Already!, because the painting is done. One wall of the study is Calypso-indigo (I'd initially been tempted by Fairy Dust and Enchantment, just for the names, before realizing that I kinda preferred the other shade ... and while I would have preferred Circe, this has enough of a classical reference to satisfy my allusion-lovin' personality), our dining room is, god help us all, Limoges (I did not, in this case, pursue the appropriate allusion ... instead, it kind of found us, as it was the only color we could agree on), and the dressing area, which enjoyed a brief period of being vibrant crimson (otherwise known as Victorian Red) is now a nice soft gold which actually matches the Calyndigo, as opposed to clashing with it in the manner of an wine-based Molotov cocktail. Ah ....
... Contentment.
ETA: Have just had the ... not Freudian, but at least disconcerting, realization that I will not have to post any kind of swatches or images or anything to show y'all the color I was looking for, because, guess what? It's my LJ background.
Well, at least I'm consistent ....