Random shots of lawn on a hot, dry weekend in mid July.
We've been wanting to try to capture the essential color of grass for a while. We were looking for the greatest variation we could in this staple color, but it was hard to find. The most interesting parts of the range are the yellowy green new grass and the dried out brown at the other end of the spectrum.
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I love it.
I once had this amazing bath rug from PBTeen that was a grass green color and said something like "FREE" or "CHILL" in big white letters. It got lost in a move, and I've been looking for it ever since.
I've even been thinking about getting a grass green rug for my bedroom. (Yes, I'm into 'nature colors.' Any ideas?
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The thing that always hangs me up about "nature" colors--which are my very favorites--is that in nature they are 99.9% of the time more than "a" color, and their real beauty lies in the variation--e.g. the pictures of July grass. So as soon as I pick "a" color based on, say, grass, pfffft! The life's gone out of it.
Or maybe I'm just really bad at picking or matching colors. I've tried sponging, stippling, glazing, washing, layering, etc., with varying degrees of success--usually the more labor-intensive the more successful. Does anyone else have this problem with "nature colors"?
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Aulaire, I have this problem generally with paint and oohh it grieves me.
Paint on a flat wall is so one-dimensional and all the things that give me color inspiration (nature, fashion shows and ads) are not. I'd like suggestions on how to recreate the forest near my house, or the mustard-y linen in the prada ad from last fall on my living room wall.....
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Aw, this reminds me of my dad. He was a lawnmower repair man when I was young, and always smelled like grass.
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How delicious, brittanykate!
Annalyssa, I did something in the hallway of my old house that was labor intensive, if you look at it that way, but absolutely fun to do, and the results were wonderful. I recreated the birch tree woods behind my house--at sunset--by painting a mural. ALL the colors were there, and a very judicious use of metallic bronze diluted with water, paint/water ratio about 1/Say 50, spritzed on with spritz bottle. I first skimmed drywall compound onto the walls so I'd have a very absorbent base. It also go soft when wetted with the latex paints, so I felt like I was painting a true mural. My painting of the woods was more complex than it would need to be--a simplified woodsy attack would have worked just as well. . . .
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