Seasonal Colours Part 2

Autumn colours are currently in full swing. I am collecting leaves in pretty pinky red colours and pressing them. My Instagram feed is flooded with snaps of Autumn trees in parks that look like they need to be painted. I like observing the variation in seasons. Spring and Summer are my favourites though, without a shadow of doubt. My first ever blog post was on seasons it is something that I could definitely keep writing about again and again, here is part 2.

So I had this idea to try and create a colour palette for each season, quickly on the computer. I should have used paints or inks and mixed the colours myself, computer colours are quite difficult to select. I will paint the colours at some stage, but for now it is computer colours.

Autumn colours. To me and I am sure what is widely associated with the Autumn colour palette is rich jewel, intense and warm tones. Pumpkin orange, leaf colours, earthy shades... I could create a palette with hundreds of shades for each season but I haven't got all week.

Winter colours are next. What I associate with winter is a cold, starkness which is hard to put into a palette. There is an iciness, yet also a darkness to winter, which I was trying to portray.

Spring time of course follows on. I see spring colours as fresh and bright, sometimes a little watery and a bit weak definitely not as intense as summer and Autumn. Yet there is still so much vibrancy in the green tones and that period of a few weeks in May when the world turns pink with blossom.

Summer. When I first started constructing these shapes and colours I kept thinking this looks quite basic like I am just using the bright primary colours. In summer I think of sunniness and warmth, flowers and blue skies, I know this is optimistic in this country...

A literal way to think about it is this is the palette that sits directly between spring and Autumn so technical be a mixture or a half way point of the two. Winter also sits between Autumn and Spring but I feel that it is less of a half way point.

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