Colour combinations

Grey, white, and yellow is probably my favourite colour combination. You see it a lot in the sky -

image from here

I've not yet used this combination in a quilt, or knitting, or anything - but I love to see it, for instance in this quilt

image from here

The way Tapies combines colours is instructive - neutrals with touches of yellow and red (the colours of the catalan flag) -

When doing "creative embroidery" all those years ago, the advice was to have some "spark" among the colours. Julia Caprara loved to add a strong turquoise -

image from here (2003)

and that idea made it into the "forest fantasy" pieces I was doing at the time -

For those sorts of colours, the painter of choice is Bonnard -

Sometimes coincidence reveals colours put together in congenial proportions -