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!

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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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