artistic principles

Your Life Palette

Color Palettes Lloyd Boston recommends a concept he terms “identify your life palette”, that is, basing your wardrobe on the colors you just naturally love. If you aren’t certain about yours, you may find inspiration at wear palettes, a blog with a stunningly simple premise: taking The Sartorialist’s photos and extrapolating the color palettes. I …

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Color Temperature: Psychological and Relative

When discussing color “temperature”, are we all talking about the same thing?  There are, in practice, two different ways of understanding color temperature; that is, warm versus cool colors.  I will attempt to oversimplify the explanation and uses of each. Psychological Color Temperature This is what you may have learned in elementary school:  red and …

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