Greenery
With Envy
by Amy Monthei
Each year
Pantone comes out with the color of the year, this year’s color is bursting forth like
spring shoots is aptly called Greenery (#15-0343). I
love this year’s color it is bright, punchy, happy and and above all it's FRESH and really feels much
overdue. Its a bold rich yellow green and
for me it is a completely opposite and refreshing welcome change to the
overdone red accents of the past few years.
I have always been attracted to green, in fact it was my first word! I would look at green leaves, the way the sunlight would catch them and glint of the surface and how the color glowed when the sun poured through them on the trees. I have always loved that semi-translucent quality. When i was 2 my father made me a rocking horse and it had a tail of green white and blue yarn and of course i named him Green. On any usual day there is about a 50% chance of finding me wearing green.
My forecast?
I think people will embrace this gorgeous color and see it has huge potential to bring in the freshness of the garden indoors to brighten and punch up a space.
Ideas for outside
Ideas for outside
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| Photo by BEHR |
Using this great color on a front door can brighten up a boring neutral space and not clash with your outdoor greenery but instead becomes an extension of it.
Adding accent planters to your patio garden or punching up your furniture with this sunny green can really enhance your outdoor space.
Adding accent planters to your patio garden or punching up your furniture with this sunny green can really enhance your outdoor space.
Ideas for inside
If you are not sure you want to be surrounded by the outdoors but would enjoy a punch of color inside, use it to liven up a room by choosing accessories such as vases, lamps and pillows.
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| Adding Greenery indoors using accessories |
Get a great Vintage piece and update and refresh
the color as seen in the left photo.
Paint the floor in your entryway or mudroom as
seen in the photo on the right.
Go bold with a new couch or a great textured accent chair combining an additional natural element.
I have added Greenery to my home here in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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| I mixed greenery in my accessories, the Richard Grachalla raku vase mixed with a soft green Ernest Miller vase and Ocean blue and white patterned lamp. |
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| My bedroom inspired by Hawaii, I used Greenery in the bedding and placed and Calvin DeRuyter original watercolor and a Susan Piazza 3-D clay piece on my wall. |
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| Makapu'u Trail on Ohau's east shoreline was the inspiration for my bedroom |
Greenery as inspiration as an artist
As an artist I am also very much influenced by the beauty and color that surround me and this often shows up in my work. Let me show you what I mean:
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| "Citron Sky" Mixed media on canvas by Amy Monthei |
The above painting inspired by:
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| Kualoa Mountain Range as seen from Kualoa Regional Park, Oahu |
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| See the way Light makes this color glow with vibrancy? Kualoa Regional Park, Oahu |
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| Mortimer my Wire fox terrier enjoying the Greenery |
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| "Equality" - Grade 1 Braille Mixed Media on canvas by Amy Monthei |
The above painting inspired by:
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| Ka'ena Point Trail S W Shore of Oahu |
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| La'ie Point North Shore of Oahu |
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| Lanikai Beach Oahu |
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About Artist and Blogger - Amy Monthei
She is a legally blind artist that lives and creates artwork in her home-based studio in Honolulu, HI. She regularly shows and sells her work that has been commissioned by corporate and private clients throughout the United states. She is often accompanied by her shadow, a nine year old wire Fox terrier named Mortimer.
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