Matte Green Vase

21 May, 2010 in art pottery by admin

Matte Green Vase

Using Favorite Things To Balance Color In A Room

While accessories definitely add interest to a space, there is something that you should remember as you use them to balance color. Know which color is predominant. Is that really the appearance that you are trying to achieve? Only repeating your dominant hue with your accessories lends it support. Using accessories like prints, throw pillows and baskets in bolder colors can help detract attention from other parts of the room.
As you consider the changes that you want to make to your room, first understand the balance of color that you are starting with. Then you can decide how many accessories you need to balance that scheme. Assume that your bedroom is using a split complementary color scheme. The walls are covered in olive green. This defines the main color complement. Including rust-red from the carpet lends you your complementary color. The carpet is a couple of shades more saturated than the shams and bedspread. To balance this color theme out you probably need throw pillows on the bed that are mauve. Add unique wall plaques on the wall that include mauve elements along with the other colors. Mauve is the perfect color matte when you are framing a piece of watercolor artwork. Giving bedside light fixtures simple mauve shades rounds out this look quite nicely. You can form cohesion in the room by incorporating all three colors in your window treatment.
* If you want to try using a triadic color scheme, check for colors that are spaced evenly apart from each other. Since these color schemes can become too overpowering, unless they are very toned down, they are very difficult to manage. An often seen color palette for a child's room can also work well making over a kitchen.* To make a look with analogous colors, you can pick any three colors next to each other on the color wheel. While a monochromatic color scheme is easy to pull off, this one is even easier. This type of color scheme works if you keep it simple and keep your tones consistent.* Start with a single color to make your own split complementary hues. Next, select a color from either side of the complementary color and use it. This scheme is slightly more subtle than the complementary color scheme but can fail if you use dulled down versions of the warmer colors. If you want to direct attention on a warm color in your design scheme, simply pair it with two cooler tones.* Complementary color schemes tend to be lively, because they are constructed from opposite colors, and you can find them across from one another on the color wheel. While complementary tones may seem kind of out of reach to a novice, you just have to consider Christmas to find a great example that is known to everyone, red and green.If you mute these colors, they work extremely well. Even though red and green are traditional Christmas colors, rust and moss, which are technically red and green do not illicit the feeling of Christmas. When saturated colors are used together, this color scheme demands attention. Always remembering the mood that you are striving to create is vitally important.* Creating a monochromatic theme simply uses a single color in varying shades like cream, beige and brown. It is hard to go wrong with this color palette, so anyone can use it successfully. A consideration of decorating in a single tone scheme is that the room's design can become somewhat monotonous.
It is essential that you comprehend how colors work with each other so that you can make a balanced feel in your room. The color wheel, which has been used by artists for centuries, illustrates all color schemes used in your design.
Home decor can range from paintings or wall hangings to room dividers, sculptures to vases, rugs, baskets to bowls, and pillow to throws. While color is important, the subject of your accoutrements says a lot about you. It is also a wonderful chance to coordinate the color scheme so that the tones are harmonious.
When you use hues correctly, it makes your home look as if a professional decorator designed your room. Building a color palette that simply fails can make your home look like there was no plan to it at all. What do you need to do to be sure that you are employing color to your best advantage? You blend your use of color with accessories.

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Who's seal this is on my vase? Its a conjoined backwards 'R' and 'P' surrounded by short radiating dashes

The vase is about "6 tall and has a dark, matte, blueish-green, cracked glaze and has a softly raised pattern of fruits and leaves around the rim.
-Thanks!!

Sounds like Rookwood to me:

http://www.hilltoptreasures.com/pottery/help.php?section=rookwoodmarks

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/JUNE04/0001-0050.html