In the Country

We’ve described our “In the Country” colour family as Rural not metro, soft not hard.
I have today been finishing off the colour development. This colour card is split between some very soft pretty pastel shades and some really anchored earth tones.

• Dandelion clock – soft whisper of a green white
• Burwash – soft dusty pink, (“Burwash” sounds like this)
• Kim’s kitchen – soft and blue
• Clotted cream -  soft and yellow
• Buckskin – middle greyed yellow ochre
• Workshop – deep grey brown colour, that we painted our workshop in ages ago
• Cinnamon – mid an warmer nutty colour
• Stillwater – our green blue not so earthy as the rest, good contrast

Providence Paint brushed out

We have some tools to help people see colour in large samples. Our paint colours are brushed out on sample boards and mounted on canvas in their colour families.

Also, after 11 years in very small accomodation at Burwash we will be extending our shop by taking over the space next door to ours.  We will be opening up a wall between the 2 spaces during October. (FANTASTIC!)

What colour is a flour sack?

So folks what colour is a flour sack?
Flour sack is the name of one of our colours in the Mr & Mrs White family. (These neutrals that are not the norm.) My current mix has turned out too green. Colour names often bring something to life in your imagination. This greenish mix has comepletely stumped me.

So I’ve had to dig out a roll of hessian from our shed, since I don’t have an actual flour sack as a colour reference. I know flour sacks weren’t made out of hessian (in the US it’s called burlap), but this has definitely given me a reference that is out there in the real world. I need to make my colour more golden and definitely paler for the colour card. Hopefully it’ll be something that bridges the flour sack/ burlap hessian world, and is a golden colour that our neutrals colours family needs.

I asked my son what colour he thought a flour sack was and he said red, then I asked my husband and he said grey. hmmm…..  what colour is a flour sack?

Painting colour charts

The colour cards were delivered on Friday and we’ve had our first crack at painting them.
We started with the Shade card and had a stab at some of the others. It takes 5 teenagers dabbing away I figure well over 2000 times to get this far, probably only 10,000 more dabs to go for our paint launch. It is fun for a while, but maybe when we are at dab 9,999 it might seem kind of “old”. I’ll let you know.

Quimper Blue

For a long time I have been interested in style of folk painting from France called Faience. Years ago my husband and I stopped at a pottery and bought a Faience style plate for my mother-in-law. I recently found out that the mid blue used in the pottery is referred to as Quimper (the French pronounce it “kim-pear”). I recently found a small plate, 1930’s, signed Henrriot Quimper while in France. So we have to have a colour called Quimper blue.