Searching for a Color Wheel in August
August 6, 2013
Blue hydrangea petals
I set out on a recent neighborhood walk to photograph a color wheel in the hues of a Seattle summer day.
Green acorns amidst green oak leaves
Yellow — floral suns in a blue sky
Orange signals summer road construction projects
Red flowers in a hanging basket in the shade of a porch
Violet clematis
And back to blue — the cloudless skies of a midsummer day
Walking the Color Wheel: Seattle’s Summer Purples
July 27, 2012
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
–Alice Walker
Pale purple gladiolus
A purple trio of geranium flowers
Purple pansies all in a row
Purple poppies
Lovely magenta poppies
Poppy
Somewhere between purple and red, knautica macedonica
Plum-colored hydrangea
Allium
Clematis vine
Late season lavender
Fuchsia-colored foxglove, purplish pink
Purplish-pinks and blues of sweet peas
Plums, Pike Place Market
Bing cherries, Pike Place Market
This concludes our walks along the color wheel. Hope you enjoyed the rambles!
Walking the Color Wheel: Seattle’s Summer Blues
July 26, 2012
The blue-ribbon days of summer!
Hydrangeas in blues and purples
A bush of blue hydrangeas
Garden art: blue plate in a garden gate
I love the blue stems of sea holly
Borage
Nothing but blue skies (Just kidding — this is Seattle, after all!)
Chihuly Garden and Glass sculpture brings this quote to life: “There is no blue without yellow and without orange.” (Vincent Van Gogh)
Blue window trim, Post Alley
Love-in-a-mist
Sweet blueberries, just picked
Sandra Cintro’s Encontro das Aguas (Encounters with Water) at the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle
Walking the Color Wheel: Seattle’s Summer Greens
July 25, 2012
“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish poet
A line of towering trees at Green Lake
Striped leaf
Unfurled poppy
Adorned poppy seed cases
Gladioli stalks
Leaves of a dogwood tree
More poppy seed cases
Little green apple
The yellow-green of a new sunflower waiting to bloom
Fluorescent yellow-green escalator in Seattle’s downtown library
Seattle green is the dark green of the trim on the Washington State Ferries.
And it’s also the green of Starbucks, our local Seattle coffee company, now a worldly giant
Walking the Color Wheel: Seattle’s Summer Yellows
July 24, 2012
“How wonderful yellow is. It stands for the sun.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
The sunflower’s sunny face
Sunflower silhouette
Garden art: a sunflower plate on a garden gate
Orange-yellow squash blossom
Bed of yellow yarrow
Yarrow crowned with yellow
Yellow and orange blanket flowers
Yellow lily
Garden loosestrife
St. John’s wart, a popular ground cover in Seattle
Our yellow weed, the dandelion
Yellow chairs bolted to the pier overlooking Elliott Bay in downtown Seattle
Yellow chairs with ferry, Elliott Bay
Yellow chairs with ferris wheel, Seattle waterfront
Summer sweet corn on the cob
Lemons in a blue bowl
Walking the Color Wheel: Seattle’s Summer Oranges
July 23, 2012
“Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.”
— Kandinsky
Orange lilies
Sneezeweed
Striped umbrella, outdoor dining
Orange calendula
Orange poppy
Honeysuckle in oranges and pinks
More reddish-orange lilies
And yet another photo of a lily
Salmon filets, Pike Place Fish Market
Fishmonger from Pike Place Fish Market shows a young man a fresh Dungeness crab
Dahlias, Pike Place Market
The Space Needle (painted orange for the 50th anniversary of Seattle’s World Fair) seen beneath Calder’s Eagle, Olympic Sculpture Park
Walking the Color Wheel: Seattle’s Summer Reds
July 22, 2012
May your summer be filled with red letter days!
Lucifer crocosmia
Two pots of strikingly red geraniums brighten this yard.
Hummingbird feeder, no hummers
Ethereal poppy
Boat rentals at Green Lake
Ubiquitous red stop signs
Rainier cherries, Pike Place Market
Raspberries, Pike Place Market
Fire engine red
Red chairs in the pavilion at Olympic Sculpture Park, with “Encounters with Water” wall art
The Seattle signature (muted) wardrobe brightened by a red beach bucket
A New Project: Walking the Color Wheel
July 21, 2012
My colorful “Grandmother’s Flower Garden” quilt, handmade in the late 1970s
I’ve been thinking about color lately after reading a new book called Paris in Color by Nicole Robertson. It featured wonderful photos of Paris, arranged by color.
Paris in Color
This book inspired me to look at Seattle as a city of color. When I looked at my surroundings through this filtering lens, I came to realize that Seattle has a rather subdued color palette, even in summer. I was surprised by this. But when my eyes took in the big picture, I saw mostly greens and grays. The vibrant patches were found mostly in the plants and flowers!
This row of houses is typical of the color palette in Seattle.
Still, I thought it a fun mini-project to seek out color in Seattle. My next six posts will take you on a walk around the color wheel during mid-summer in Seattle. Stay tuned . . . I think you’ll enjoy the color walk.
A Floral Color Wheel for Summer
June 6, 2012
Watercolor sketch of color wheel composed of summer flowers
It was fun hunting for floral treasures in yellow, orange, red, purple, blue and green.
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