Monday morning, this week, was really frosty in the Trent Valley and I couldn't help but take this photograph at 8.30 while out for our morning walk.
When I downloaded the image from my Blackberry I was really taken with the lovely rich browns, creams and apricots, moving me to use it as my palette for December and as my Seasonal Greetings card. It puts a new twist on winter colours! It's certainly not winter white, is it?
Dyeing the lovely rich colours would be a challenge and I think I'd use cutch (Thar) or sappenwood (Garden) with iron water for the browns and cutch for the apricot shade, with oak gall for the cream. What would you use?
2 comments:
I agree with using cutch, and oak galls; I'd use them. But I think I might try some quebracho red with the cutch, not a lot, to give a rosy undertone to get almost apricot shade and the paler creamy golden sky, too. Just another alternative. This is fun!
That's really interesting, Elaine. I've never used Quebracho Red, I must look it up, thanks for sharing and I'm glad you are enjoying the colour palette idea.
Alison
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