What Is The Color Of Your Pallet?

Remember the old question ... "What is the color of the parachute?" I have never read the book, but it had something to do with the exploiting of your work.

My question to you ... "What is the color of the palette?"

The Great Home Furnishing Market Fair is over and the new color trends for 2008 had been terminated. The colors for this year are in bold and quiet with very little in between. Hot yellow-green, much brighter and more yellow than lime was a very popular accentColor.

Salmon / against a peach-pink shrimp was strong in the tissue. These colors were used as solids or in combination with other colors. Orange was used to dress up combination of colors, but as an accent - no large areas of flat color. Scarlet, much brighter than you normally see also showed quite a bit.

Your good old standard is brown is still used quite frequently, but this time it is used in combination with light blue. Remain neutral by themselves or lovedin combination with other colors.

My old favorite, "gray" makes a very strong, soft dark charcoal to almost black, a large number of metallic and pastels are combined to remarkably staged. Jewel colors - especially amethyst - used with gray.

When it comes to wood, the dark chocolate in recent years is out, now the media are warm orange to golden yellow and reddish brown for this year.

What does all this mean for you as an artist. IfYou are a casual painter and paint for fun, probably nothing. If on the other side do the show circuit and exhibition in the galleries of these trends will be important to you.

Your customers are upgrading their homes and offices and are looking for wall display. Even in bad times, there are people who upgrades to their facility. Wall Decor Art is a great way to blunt add new life to a room. Her art has up to date and able to adapt to these newTrends.

I know you paint only "fuzzy rabbit." That's fine, but you will not be sold, several
Thousands of dollars in your art. You need to paint what is going on the public to buy if you have a hobby artist.

Get off your high end furniture showrooms and see what they offer. Talk with your interior designer and ask what is for sale. Then you go out and create your art in order to reflect these trends. I know is that you ask to get out of your comfort zone ..."Just Do It"

A final thought: John Cage, (was 1912-1992) composer and philosopher, at the age of 75, should someone prepare for old age he asked was a little annoyed that he would consider someone old account. His answer was interesting ... "Never had a job, because when you get a job someday someone take from you and then you will not have prepared for your age." He continued ... Everyday life since the age of 12 I wake up every morning and try to figure out how to put bread on the --ago today ... At the age of 75 I do the same thing every day, and I am prepared extremely well for my age.

If you have the talent, you spend your day improving your art, and in a very short time you will be prepared for retirement.