As I sit here at 55 latitude, I have to report that summer has definitely vanished. The shops are filling up with heavy textiles and the colour palettes are rapidly changing.
However, it is still August, so I thought I would pin up some summery palettes and interestingly each image contains one colour that is going to hang on well into Winter 2011.
Sulphurous yellow is likely to be a key micro colour this winter. Used for details to lift a moody room, or on the catwalk to make fun of grown up tailoring, its presence even on very small areas will be felt.
Inky midnight blue is another colour I think we will see but this time on larger areas. Not a conventional navy, more a bruised navy heading towards off-black. A great backdrop for artwork and a colour that can easily add sophisticated drama to an interior. Farrow & Ball’s Hague Blue fits the bill but if you are looking for less saturation, Paint & Paper Library’s Blue Blood is a stylish “easy on the eyes” blue. Little Greene’s Juniper Ash a hazy airforce blue-grey would be a softer choice while Valtti “St.Peter’s Boat” a powerful blue-black would create an interesting feature wall.
Put the two colours together and you have a great combination – perhaps it’s not so bad we are marching towards Autumn……
Niki Fulton 
I think that the sulphur yellow will add a great spark of colour to dark and sophisiticated winter palettes this season.
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Great, I hope you have fun trying it out. Thanks for your comment.
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Great blog! My favourite is the picture of the fennel as I can see exactly where you have picked the colours, by looking at my fennel plant out the window.
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I bet you have great colours in your veggie patch – thanks for your comment 🙂
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love that yellow *pop*. Here in the pacific Northwest our summer started late this year so I’m totally unwilling to give it up yet! (I do love reading your blog posts!)
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Ah, thanks Betsy, really lovely to get nice feedback like that – means a lot, thank you. Well our summer didn’t really start at all so we will have to ‘think” warm instead! Glad you are catching some good weather, enjoy.
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I love the blues, have just come back from Cornwall were I visited the Porthmeor artist studios, all the doors are painted blue a very similar colour to the Juniper Ash. And the sulphorous yellow is very similar colour to some plants I saw growing on a slate grey wall near the beach.
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Ah, you paint a lovely picture. I’ve never been to Cornwall but would really love to and now you’ve made me want to go even more so thanks for commenting.
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Love the sulphurous yellow, which is a surprise to me, but I like it with the Juniper Ash (or whichever made it onto your palette).And I don’t mind that it is so autumnal here in Scotland: summer is usually such a let down but autumn doesn’t disappoint. Look forward to your posts!
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Thanks Kellie! Well today I am moving on to a turmeric inspired palette since my fingers and everything I have recently touched has turned a magnificent earthy yellow after peeling the fresh turmeric roots! I look forward to your Autumnal recipes appearing on your blog. 🙂
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Oh! PS Thanks so much for featuring me on your blogroll – too kind! I need to get round to doing one, on which you will of course feature. Cross-pollination of subjects is good…. Well, we both are into colour, just with differing professional manifestations.
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Ah, I agree, and your colourful recipes are often a source of inspiration – my favourite being a lovely delicate sushi inspired set of colours.
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Sulphurous yello and midnight blue, a perfect union of night and day, of the sun and vast ocean at the beginning and end of each day. It’s hard for me to let go of Summer and its colors. Beautiful Art, radiant blending. Thanks.
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What a wonderful comment, thank you so much. You obviously have a deep association with colour.
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