A bright quilled flower made using the colors from Pantone's Spring 2016 palette. Some of my color matches are better than others ... |
So every year I take a look at the Pantone seasonal colors to see what inspiration I can draw for shades I don't often use, or for color combinations I don't usually consider. They say that their colors this year "focus on a desire to breathe and reflect, then play" which sounds pretty good to me.
This spring's colors have some unusual shades in them. I know this because I had a really difficult time creating my quilled flower, here. My quilled flower is made from my best attempt at matching the Spring 2016 colors from paper I already had in my 'extras' box.
The color names are as follows: Rose Quartz, Peach Echo, Serenity, Snorkel Blue, Buttercup, Limpet Shell, Lilac Grey, Fiesta, Iced Coffee, and Green Flash. I was able to find very good matches for the first four colors on the list in my piles of paper. I use a lot of blue shades, so I expected to have these on hand. I was more surprised that I had an appropriate peach shade, although not much of it. This is a very different color for me, I rarely work in any orange shades at all. But I have a few collections of 'country colors' that have this shade. The yellow was difficult. This pantone color has a hint of orange that my yellows don't have. It makes it tough to match.
Color swatches for Pantone's Spring 2016 colors. |
The combinations that I'm thinking of are the Rose and Peach shades - nice flowers. I like the neutral Lilac Grey color thinking of stones, and might match it with the Iced Coffee and Green Flash, that make me think of soil and growing things. The blues like Snorkel and Limpet naturally bring to mind the sea, and seashells. A lot of inspiration in this Spring's lineup of color!
Image Credits: My pic of my flower, and Pantone's 2016 Color Swatches from their site.