colors from kale

I was out pick­ing kale. In one pile I had the leaves for din­ner, in the other the older leaves that were going to get recy­cled. Pretty inter­est­ing col­ors to the leaves, I was think­ing… (Color toys below from Colourlovers.)

kale-colors

Kale
Color by COLOURlovers

Kale_Plaid_I
Color by COLOURlovers

Kale_Plaid_II
Color by COLOURlovers

June 15 2009 06:13 am | Categories: rambles | Tags: • •

7 Responses to “colors from kale”

  1. Lynn on 15 Jun 2009 at 9:33 am #

    it com­ple­ments your header image nicely :) And now, thank you, I must delve into the world of Colourlovers for about 18 hours…

  2. lostlandscape on 15 Jun 2009 at 8:20 pm #

    Lynn, 18 hours is prob­a­bly about right in esti­mat­ing how many hours a per­son can spend at that site…

  3. jo on 16 Jun 2009 at 3:14 am #

    Hiya,
    I am a woven fab­ric designer and very taken with our colour swatches.
    Soon I will delve along with Lynn :-)

    That is a lovely way to dis­play your kale. Can one add those leaves to the com­post heap? I thought it would make every­thing grown on it taste cab­bagy from thereon-in :-)

  4. fountains outdoor on 16 Jun 2009 at 12:35 pm #

    Hi! just returned from colourlovers because I had to see what you were talk­ing about… it’s a beau­ti­ful site, how did you find it? but I have to admit that noth­ing can com­pete with real nat­ural col­ors and textures!

  5. lostlandscape on 16 Jun 2009 at 6:20 pm #

    Jo, that’s so inter­est­ing about you being a designer of fab­rics. I’m always amazed at the new color com­bi­na­tions I’m find­ing in the gar­den. Of course there are plenty of col­ors I see on my com­puter screen that are totally out of gamut for my garden.

    Foun­tains Out­door, I was play­ing with Adobe’s Kuler site when I was turned on to Colour Lovers by some of the users there. If I had to pick between end­less hours in the gar­den or end­less hours in front of my com­puter screen, I’d def­i­nitely opt for the gar­den. But when it gets cold or dark out­doors, it’s nice to have some indoor toys.

  6. Dreamybee on 17 Jun 2009 at 3:03 am #

    LOL-I was tak­ing pic­tures of my kale yes­ter­day too! Mine is a bit more mono­chro­matic than yours right now, but yours does make for a lovely plaid!

  7. Bird on 29 Jun 2009 at 4:52 am #

    Oh good­ness, you reminded me of col­orlovers! Those swatches are gor­geous, what a great way to play with the site! I am now afraid that I will never do any­thing gain­ful ever again.…

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