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Challenges

-London

Make it Snappy

  Hex colour reference:  #fdfc74 A colourful note:  in 1990, Crayola renamed several of their fluorescent crayons and added some new shades too.  Unmellow yellow was one of their very cheerful […]
Make it Snappy

-Buckinghamshire

Meandering

In case you’re wondering what has happened to my sense of straight and level, this curvy shot was taken with my iPhone 6 and Insta360Nano add-on camera.   Debbie Smyth, […]
Meandering

-Cuba

Hockney at Tate

“Sir, You state, … that cigarettes will be sold in “boxes decorated in an off-putting shade of olive green”.  I don’t believe there are “off-putting“ colours … The colour will be quite […]
Hockney at Tate

-London

Multi-sided Design

Hex colour reference:  #eceabe A colourful note:  the spring green colour represents the well-watered vegetation of early spring. The Crayola interpretation is a long-timer, having joined their boxes of crayons back in […]
Multi-sided Design

-Cuba

Smokin’

  Hex colour ref:  f0e891 A colourful note: this calm yellow colour, known as green yellow, first appeared as a Crayola crayon in 1997.   Copyright Debbie Smyth, 6 February 2017   Part of […]
Smokin’

-Cuba

Happy

  Hex colour reference:  #fce883 A colourful note:  yellow was, of course, in the original 1903 set of Crayola crayons and still remains. In Crayola world, it has changed shade a […]
Happy