Color Globes Inspiration

Globes at Quilt Show
Globes at Quilt Show

I did something a little different today in that I was interested in how many different palettes I could create using the photo above. You can see that colors in the image are already limited.

Color Globes - Palette 1
Color Globes – Palette 1

First, I focused on the turquoise globe. I was interested in some of the colors the Palette Builder showed when I first uploaded the photo. I am constantly fascinated with creating a palette that has the right mix of contrasting blues.

Color Globes- Palette 2
Color Globes- Palette 2

Next, I moved to the more green globes and focused the circles on them exclusively. You can see more green/yellows in the tones of the colors in the palette. It is interesting how many colors there are in this picture.

Color Globes - Palette 3
Color Globes – Palette 3

I could probably play with this one photo ad infinitem. I realized that after my third try and the tool doesn’t even have the color discernment that my eye does.

Color Globes- palette 4
Color Globes- palette 4

I really couldn’t stop playing with this photo. The colors are relatively limited, but there is still enough of a difference, with the glare and light sources to make the colors slightly different.

I may work with this photo again.

I am wondering what a quilt would be like made from all the colors in the three palettes?

Color Globes - Palette 1
Color Globes – Palette 1
Color Globes - Palette 2
Color Globes – Palette 2
Color Globes - Palette 3
Color Globes – Palette 3
Color Globes- palette 4
Color Globes- palette 4

What do you think?

Author: Jaye

Quiltmaker who enjoys writing and frozen chocolate covered bananas.

5 thoughts on “Color Globes Inspiration”

  1. I finally tried playing with this after seeing your posts about it, and it is very cool. But limited of course as it’s trying to match up the colors we see with the closest fabric color available. Very addictive!

  2. Wow! I would combine them all but leave wasabi and the grays out, and maybe the espresso. It’s pretty much an analogous color scheme, but I’ve got to say Kona’s slate looks like lavender to me, which looks fabulous with espresso, so maybe I like it for contrast.

    1. I think it would be important to cut squares in the colors and see how they all worked together. A little bit of the wasabi might be just what the palette needs. My screen shows all colors tending towards grey, so I think trying out the palette with the actual fabric would be important.

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