What It Takes To Look Normal (Living Up to Bright Winter)
or Q: Why is learning Yoga like learning your colours? A: Because it’s the same as learning anything. It takes a Winter to make black look interesting, deep, meaningful. Only a Summer’s colouring can...
View Article2 Extremes of Bright Winter
1. When you can’t be anything else In his very famous Stanford Commencement address of 2005, Steve Jobs says that your heart and intuition always know what’s best for you. I believe that to be 150%...
View ArticleBright Winter Q and A
I seem to be in a groove of seeing so many Bright Winters lately that I figure I’m still supposed to write about it. The reaction a person has to learning that their natural colouring falls into the...
View ArticleGrowing Into Bright Winter
Still happening. Bright Winters are walking in the door with so much to teach us. Photo: Krappweis Too light for Bright Winter? too warm? too soft? Why isn’t it shocking? I like it. The pigments are...
View ArticleTrue Winter Sans Drama and A Gentle Dark Autumn
A couple of things on my mind lately. First, body lines and how they matter as much as colour (or almost :)) in a final image. I send out a newsletter to my clients containing items from the retail...
View ArticleSharing A Colour Journey
You are about to take a personal journey with Danish author, Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky. I know that many readers will find familiarity in her experiences and feelings. I am very grateful to...
View ArticleHot Weather Colour for Dark Winter
The lighter and brighter colours for Dark Winter are presented today. Why call the Season Dark? It’s a source of confusion because it so easily gives rise to misinterpretation, almost forcing the idea...
View ArticleYellow for 12 Seasons
Colour is what humans use to tell the energy of light. The chemical reaction connects up in our brain and creates certain mood chemicals. We all have a version of this gorgeous happy colour that looks...
View ArticleDark Winter Landscapes
The days might be gettin’ longer but the snow’s a’gettin higher. Updating you on the ongoing saga of the recliners on the lawn: My world looks like the surface of the next planet out. A good time to...
View ArticleUniform Dressing for 12 Seasons
My thanks to J. whose question inspired this post. J: I appreciate your blog a lot and would love to see you do a post on “uniform” ideas for the different seasons. “Uniform dressing” is pretty...
View Article3 Beauty Colours for 12 Seasons V2.0
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View Article3 Types of True Winter
Without the 12 colour harmonies created for the Seasons by Kathryn Kalisz, founder of Sci\ART, I would never have seen and felt the unique language of each Season. Would have missed it completely. I...
View Article3 Medium Grays for 12 Seasons
I was asked to talk about gray since writing Choosing the Best Gray. Wow, it’s been 7 years now! We all reserve the right to get smarter as we get older, smarter even than we were last week. That 2011...
View ArticlePlease No Colours for Winters
The last in the Please No Posts. I was asked, “Don’t you just wear whatever you want?” Such a good question. We could eat whatever we want, decorate our house however we choose, and invest our money...
View ArticleGreen and Purple for Dark Winter
Thank you to my dear friends Linda for the topic and Susan for the beautiful tulips that look like the Canadian maple leaf. —– In the sequence of the 12 Seasons, Dark Winter is the colouring group that...
View ArticlePantone Greenery for the 3 Winters
Continuing with our series showing Pantone’s Color of the Year 2017 for the 12 Seasons. Previous posts are here for the 3 Autumns, and here for the 3 Summers. The three panels below show Greenery in...
View ArticleTrue Winter Sans Drama and A Gentle Dark Autumn
Many have said, “I was draped as a True Winter but I’m not dramatic, so should I wear Summer colours? Maybe I’m not a Winter?” If you’re a Winter dressing as Summer, you look weak. Many Summers can...
View ArticleSharing A Colour Journey
You are about to take a personal journey with Danish author, Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky. I know that many readers will find familiarity in her experiences and feelings. I am very grateful to...
View ArticleEye colours and Warm and Cool Seasons
We are each given a set of natural colours in perfect harmony. Colour analysis is the key to making the absolute most of them. The fullest colour, the cleanest shine. Women often focus on their hair,...
View ArticleEyeglass Frames for Your Natural Colouring
When you know your colours, you step into a themed world, decorated with all the things you wear, from eyeliner to boots.The theme is Your Natural Colours, the colours that are in you right now.Group...
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