Some saturated palettes for you to play around with

Saturated Color on a Hot Day

We've just been through a stretch of really hot weather in the Puget Sound so... I thought some lush, bright color inspiration might be just what the color doctor ordered!

Behind the lens

I could happily spend hours behind the lens of my camera grabbing colorful vignettes and possible color inspiration for future projects.

Speaking of saturated

  • Me in front of the amazing oxidized metal wall at Seattle Experience Music Project

  • A fabulous peony in my neighbor’s garden

  • A hot color palette

Pink and Yellow form two parts of a tetrad on the saturated color wheel. Though the peony doesn’t have any green or purple in it, these color families fill out the color harmony. What a fabulous hot, bold color palette to work with!

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