Color Swatches

This post was totally inspired by my friend Shay from the Yahoo Group, Blissfully Art Journaling, over at Fall the Flowers.- Art by Any Means and her color encyclopedia.

I too have been known to pull colors from a photo or print that I love and make color swatches.  Here is one I did last week after looking at my pictures from my day trip with Jilli to the beach.  This photo was actually a picture of Seaweed growing along the shore line by the rocks.  After playing with it digitally I came up with this somewhat abstract print.  Then I decided the colors are very close to the colors I want to use when I redo my kitchen, so I started to isolate them.

This is what I came up with.

When I was scrapbooking I would do this a lot with my photos to try to figure out what colors I needed to use.  I really enjoy this technique when I am unsure of the colors that match or work with a particular photo or image.

Now to gather up all these color ideas and create a journal with them.  I think this is a great journaling idea.