mariaparay.com » Art http://www.mariaparay.com Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:11:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Color! http://www.mariaparay.com/art/color/ http://www.mariaparay.com/art/color/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:31:14 +0000 Maria http://www.mariaparay.com/?p=944 Remember the first day of school?  Besides getting new shoes, my favorite item to start off school with was a brand new box of crayons.  Sometimes it would be a box of 48, but most times it would be a big box of 64 Crayola® crayons, with the built-in sharpener.  I was always jealous of the one boy, Jeffrey, who showed up with a box of 128 crayons every year.  I never, ever saw a box that big in any of my neighborhood stores.  I always took such good care of my crayons, putting each back in the same spot I got it from – an early sign of the meticulous engineer crossed with the artist in me!

I  have always loved color – the brilliant colors of fall make it my favorite season.  Fortunately, I have been able to indulge my love for color in both my decorative painting and jewelry careers.  It’s always a challenge to see what color palettes work well together, from a design viewpoint.  Today I was doing some research for my web site and spent hours looking through palettes at COLOURlovers.  If you love color, take a peek at the site – but be sure to have lots of time to spare – it gets addictive!

Beautiful Fall Color!

Beautiful Fall Color!

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