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Debbie Smyth

Colour Challenges

Pink Sherbert

In the UK, sherbert is a sweet, fizzy powder consisting of sugar, flavouring, acid (such as citric acid) and base (such as sodium bicarbonate).  A traditional sweet, and one of […]

Odd Ball

Pedestrians Beware

This road sign, designed by Jacob Sempler and Emil Tiisman, made a controversial appearance in Stockholm in November 2015.  When I spotted it, I wasn’t sure if it was waning […]

-Turkey

Sweet Istanbul

Hex colour reference:  #158078 A colourful note:  this dark green, with a hint of blue, is known in current Crayola boxes as pine green.  In fact, this shade of green featured in the original […]
Sweet Istanbul

-Kent

Piggy Pink for a Viking of the Day

  Hex colour reference: #fdd7e4 A colourful note: piggy pink is a Crayola name, introduced in 1998 as pig pink, but later softened to “piggy pink”.  And it seems a very close match […]

-Barcelona

Never Hide

This huge billboard gazes down on an important square In Barcelona, one that marks a hey point in the history of Catalunya. The 1714 Siege of Barcelona lasted for over a […]

-Berlin

Deadly Love

This mural of  Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in a fraternal embrace is one of the most famous pieces of art on the Berlin Wall.  These two girls were keen to […]