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This is the first palette I remember absolutely loving. JeremyCole was the first user on the site to comment on my page and palette's and he was honestly a big help and inspiration. If it had been anyone else, I don't know if I would have paid much attention to this site or kept up with it. Looking at his palettes was a great starting point, you really feel something when you see them. You read the title and you know exactly what he means. This is still one of my absolute favorites on the site, and I feel like some of my best work has been caused by inspiration (and maybe a little competition in trying to out-do him!) from seeing his palettes.



This is such a classic. Perhaps the most popular and well-known palette on the site. CircusCarnival is also another incredible inspiration for me on this site, her and Jeremy are tied for my favorites. They have a way with color, it really leads you someplace. I remember seeing this and becoming insanely jealous. I wanted to create something that I thought was just as beautiful, I feel like I really pushed myself to come up with a combination that, at the time, was fresh and unique from everything else I was doing. Ultimately, the palette I created in response to this one was Denim Parachute (which to my knowledge, was ranked as high as #11 at one point). CircusCarnival has been a point of encouragement and in a roundabout way, responsible for some of the best of my own personal creations. This palette is genius, beautiful, striking. It takes me to a place that I wouldn't otherwise know how to get to myself.



This palette is also one of the first that really caught my eye on this site. It has the colors Poached Ivory and Era which have been featured countless times in my own palettes. Lunalein has so many colors that find their way my palettes, it's almost insane. She has an eye for earthy pastel colors like Thicket and Follow My Trail that really connect with me. While Shangri-Leigh didn't contribute many palettes in her brief stay of activity, she is surely an example of quality over quantity.



If ever there were a palette on the site that I wished were my creation, this would surely be it. My fixation on earth-related colours and tones is really satisfied when I look at this palette. It has such a balance to it. Every soothing element is represented. The brown colour that caps the palette at the beginning is so ripe, it almost has a purple quality to it that allows it to be both strong and sweet. Like biting into the bark of a tree to discover that it tastes like a plum in it's proper season. Every time I look at this palette, the same calming image is brought to mind and I can see it, smell it, touch it, taste it, and hear it. If only more palettes could take on such a life of their own.



This is a hot summer day. This is a city bustling with traffic in the middle of July. There are people everywhere. The destination for each person is different, they all have their separate homes and jobs that they are trying to make their way to. But each of those people, as they leave one spot to get to the next, all have to suffer through the same sticky, sweaty heat. This is the color of fatigue in an old woman's forehead. This is the sound of sweat on a young man's suit. The way the dog just lays there, lazy in the sight of the sun. But it reminds us that we sweat because we are alive, and we are alive because of the sun. In this way, we are one.



Caori is a friend of mine. I even said so in a palette once. Though we've never met, I've always had a profound respect for her work. This piece in particular I feel best represents her best attributes. It is at first glance, beautiful. But you don't get bored over time with it. It retains a youth, a sense of elegance and class. It is foreign, but at once recognizable. It's that song you hear once and you never forget. It's the first time you ever took it upon yourself to get all dressed up because you wanted to impress that special someone. It's the circle of relatives around your first birthday cake, cheering you on and dreaming of everything you will grow up to do and become. It is serene, and calm. And it's within all of us.



In some ways, I've always found it odd that I was drawn to this set of colors. But it really works, it reminds me to seek out unusual color combinations that aren't traditional. Like the musician who throws out the chord chart and forgets everything he knows about music theory, because the fretboard has become too familiar to him. Sometimes you have to throw out the rules and do something unconventional to push the limits of art and thought. On second thought, you have to do that every time if you really want to accomplish something.



And I end with this palette. Earth colors are my weakness, I am inextricably drawn to them, perhaps because I feel that we are all connected to our environment. Whether we like it or not, we all share the same home. The rivers and streams are the lifeblood of this planet, the trees are our collective arms reaching in unison out to God, and the branches are but tiny veins in the skyline. These colors all share the same rustic vibe, they all complement each other in a way that you couldn't do any better even if you tried. It is a sunset passing through the leaves, with your hand over your eyes to try to block out the beauty of it all because it's simply just too much for our earthly eyes to take in all at once.

I hope that you have found enjoyment in these palettes, I certainly have. There are so many great combinations and palettes on this site, however my time is up as I am sure you have surely spent too much time reading my unimportant musings. Most of these palettes have in some way brought great inspiration to me over the course of my activity at colour lovers and I can only hope that in some way, the same can be said by someone else for some of my creations.

Go in peace.

A beautiful commentary. Thanks for sharing!