ColorPlay: Yergacheffe

ColorPlay: Yergacheffe original
ColorPlay: Yergacheffe original

I was really happy to find this photo. I was looking for it for some reason a little while ago. I saw this sign in a coffee shop years ago and the motif sticks in my mind as some interesting and different. The colors are interesting, too.

ColorPlay: Yergacheffe -default
ColorPlay: Yergacheffe -default

The default colors this time tend towards purple, which I like. This palette would make a good outfit.

ColorPlay: Yergacheffe -n.1
ColorPlay: Yergacheffe -n.1

In my first palette, I went for brights and the image did not disappoint. The palette itself doesn’t hang together very well, but the colors are bright and that is something.

ColorPlay: Yergacheffe - n.2
ColorPlay: Yergacheffe – n.2

I wanted to refine my first palette and try to get it to hang together better. This is, mostly, softer and tends towards warm colors, except for the Kona Royal, which doesn’t really fit.

ColorPlay: Yergacheffe - n.3
ColorPlay: Yergacheffe – n.3

I tweaked the colors from above a little and this palette is much more cohesive. That bright pink and the Kona Magenta (which looks more like purple/violet to me) really dominate, but not in an awful way.

ColorPlay: Yergacheffe - n.4
ColorPlay: Yergacheffe – n.4

I decided to focus even more on the pink and purple. Except for the Cheddar, which I must have forgotten about, the pink and purple are the stars. Many of the colors showed up in n.3 and show up in n.6.

ColorPlay: Yergacheffe - n.5
ColorPlay: Yergacheffe – n.5

The default palette wasn’t a neutral palette so, in the spirit of the Palette Builder, I created one.

ColorPlay: Yergacheffe -n.6
ColorPlay: Yergacheffe -n.6

I had to try a monochromatic palette and this time I went for pink. I had a hard time finding different pinks as the Bright Pink dominated.

ColorPlay: Yergacheffe - n.7
ColorPlay: Yergacheffe – n.7

Yellow doesn’t show up much in the images I choose, so I wanted to take advantage of the yellow in this image and try to create another monochromatic palette using yellow.

ColorPlay: Yergacheffe -n.8
ColorPlay: Yergacheffe -n.8

In another attempt to make a monochromatic palette, I chose the orange area. It is small, between the pink and the yellow, but I thought I might be able to get a range of peachy-oranges. I did sort-of.

Author: JayeL

Quiltmaker who enjoys writing and frozen chocolate covered bananas.