Posts Tagged ‘Colour’

This post is for lovely reader Ashley who is on a quest to find the colors used on three of her favorite rooms. I do not have access to the exact colors used in each room pictured on this site, but lets try nonetheless! The colors picked out is a happy medium of the colors in each picture, because the lighting and shadows greatly affect the color perception.

So, lets go!

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Additional color info for PANTONE 726X: RGB = (233, 206, 187) CMYK= (7, 18, 24, 0).

If you go to the original post (click virtual color swatch above) you can see the ceiling is also painted. There is no exact PANTONE code for this color, here is the color mix info for that one as well:

RGB = (141, 114, 103) CMYK = (42, 52, 55, 13).

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Additional color info on PANTONE 5455C: RGB = (204, 214, 224) CMYK = (19, 10, 7,0)

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Additional color info on PANTONE 5215C: RGB = (177, 148, 166) CMYK = (32, 43, 23, 0)

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Click virtual color swatch to read the original post where the room is taken from.

WARNING: The colors on your screen will appear very different from what you might find on a color swatch if you haven’t color calibrated your computer screen. If you decide on using a color code from this site, you are advised to double check the color on a swatch in your paint store.

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Japanese artist

I couldn’t help myself, too cute for words:

And here is the result:

To read more about these adorable artists, visit this site.

Danny Gardner is a young American artist, and makes these fantastic drawings and paintings:

Please go check out his website ‘Danny Draws‘ and Portfolio, you MUST see these pic in full size!

LeRoy Neiman is an American painter, and he has a really cool mustache, as you may see in this self portrait:

Neiman frequently paints images from

Woody Shepherd is an American Painter, creating fantastic forest paintings. He paints on huge canvases wood panels (thx Ra), and has a talent in using fluorescent colours, without the painting looking crazy:

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If you want to see more of his paintings, go visit his site!