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Color Trends for 2008

It's always nice to do our homework before we sit down at our easel to paint new designs.  

Every year there's a little shift in color trends for home decor.  The Color Marketing Group just announced their predictions for 2008 and we thought you'd enjoy a little peek into what's predicted for the new year.

According to the leading international association of color prediction, The Color Marketing Group, the natural environment will top the list of influences for our 2008 color palette.  The shrinking world we call "globalism" will take its rightful head of the table to influence our palette and provide accent colors.   

This means that the natural look will be in vogue, both in  our personal fashions and for home decor. The new look is "hand made", which means unbleached and un-dyed with natural imperfections and rich textures that come from nature.  The natural colors of the earth, rocks, earthy-greens, sandy tones and various kinds of off whites and linen hues will be highly fashionable this year. 

When they say "it's a small world", they really mean it.  The merging of cultures and regional colors and textures will bring zest to our fashions and home decor from around the world.   Moroccan Red continues to be a favorite and will soon be joined by glowing oranges, rosy pinks and golden sunny yellows from China, Latin America and India.  Turquoise steps in to cool the palette and add the freshness of natural blue-green to our palette.  These colors, according to the CMG, will appear on our palette as accent colors to be beautifully paired with natural neutrals of rich earthy browns.

On the cool side of our palette, we'll notice natural colors of water and sky that drift into our palette to add a gentle calmness and freshness to our fashions and home decor. They're also predicting a deep Navy that's fully saturated and vibrant to arrive on the scene next year.

On the shiny side of our palette, we'll see metallic colors start to lean toward the warmer side when bronze and copper tones begin to replace the older silvery gray tones of brushed chrome and nickel.   

The hillside villages of Europe that we love to paint are timeless and don't go out of style.  Vibrant flowers in those sunny yellows, glowing oranges and rosy pinks will reside in our garden scenes this year, and the soft, natural hues of our Nantucket designs are sure to please. 

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