i've never bought green paint.. perhaps i didn't like it. but after mixing colors to create my own, the color is growing on me
I've never loved the color green.. at least not within my artwork. As much as I love, adore, breathe for the outdoors and every green leaf, I've never loved green as part of an interior aesthetic. I've never even purchased green paint.. If I ever needed it for a landscape or otherwise within a painting, I would mix my own using blues, yellows, grays... I began to feel like Yves Kelin mixing and naming my own colors..
recently, as I started mixing colors for a painting, I whipped up a muted chartreuse.. and I loved it. and then I couldn't stop noticing it... everywhere.
Outdoor Voices, lululemon.. their spring 2019 campaigns are filled with this color!
It's pretty close to Pantone 382C .. if I had to attribute it there.
last year, I called it: ochre was the color of the fucking YEAR. every storefront that lines King Street in Charleston had burnt yellow on a mannequin. I didn't capitalize on that.. I even went so far as to pivot away from it and I painted my once-yellow studio walls bright white.. This year, 2019, I won't be left behind! I'm calling it... this green is going to be the color of the year. get ready!