Our first visit to The Redbrick Mill in Batley since before the pandemic. On a grey windswept morning it was good to see so much colour, artfully balanced by dozens of restfully grey sofas.
Redbrick Colour Swatches
Tag: Colour Swatches
Chimney piece
We walked across Thornes Park to B&Q before the retail park got busy with Christmas shoppers this morning and tracked down those last few essential items for my Redbox Gallery Night Before Christmas display including an LED spotlight to pick out the fire and adjustable legs for the base board.
For the final coat of paint for the fire I thought that I’d be limited to whatever tester pots of emulsion they had in stock, but the – helpful as always – B&Q assistant pointed us in the direction of the Valspar colour range.
For £3.00 they were able to mix us a 236ml test pot of matt emulsion from the Valspar range, which will be more than enough for my mock-up fireplace. Using the swatch cards, we checked out ‘Prague Purple’ and ‘Crown Jewels’ against the rough sketch on my iPhone and decided the punchier one would give the greatest contrast with the yellow flames in the fireplace.
Small S-hooks to hang the Christmas stockings from were the only items we couldn’t track down at B&Q, but we came across them in Dunelm’s, next door but one on the retail park.
Duck Feeders
There isn’t time to add colour when drawing passers-by and when I start writing notes it soon gets a bit complicated. ‘B’, for instance, could stand for blue, black or brown.
I’ve used the colour printer’s CMYK – cyan, magenta, yellow and ‘key’ colour, which is usually black.
A capital letter indicates a strong or darker colour, lower case a paler version, so my ‘gB’ is supposed to indicate blue with a touch of green in it.
I’ve drawn ducks, pond life, trees and flowers at Newmillerdam, so I thought that it was about time that I turned my attention to the people visiting the country park.
Hope Valley Swatches
Colour swatches from our regular Hope Valley circular walk from Hope to Castleton.