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Colorful Eye Candy

Look at this gorgeous set of purple and green photos via Flickr and BigHugeLabs:

Check out the Color+Color photo group for some gorgeous inspirational photos. Each week has a new color theme, and I could get endless ideas for possible color palettes for my quilts.
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Driftwood Grain and Colors

On our recent vacation to Jekyll, I found a tiny beach next to the fishing pier that had a huge piece of driftwood. The colors in the driftwood ranged from soft grey to yellow-brown, and the grain patterns were intricate and varied. They actually reminded me of the sky texture in Van Gogh’s [...]

Quilters Not Only Artists Who Struggle with Yellow

NPR has a delightful interview with Eric Carle here, including this excerpt:
Yellow poses the biggest challenge to Carle. He can create 10 shades of green — from bright lime green to muted brown-greens and gray-greens – colors he remembers draping Germany’s camouflaged buildings in World War II. But he has only discovered how to make [...]