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Challenges

-Edinburgh

Edinburgh – or Athens?

Back in 1822, Charles Cockerell and William Playfair, created Edinburgh’s National Monument up on Calton Hill.  It was modeled on the Parthenon and made  to commemorate Scots who had died in […]

-Sweden

Peachy Nightscape in Stockholm

Hex colourful reference:  #ffcfab A colourful note:  peach is a delicate colour, named after the pale internal flesh of a peach fruit.  The first recorded use of this name as a […]

-Kent

Pacific Blue

  Hex colour reference: #1ca9c9 A colourful note: this greenish-blue shade appeared in Crayola fashion in 1992, known simply as #16.  This naming by number was a way of promoting that […]

-Sweden

Queen Bee

This 3D-looking mural is a cheerful door decoration in Gothenburg, part of the ArtMadeThis project.  Created by Mimmi Andersson and Merete Lassen, the bright colours and architectural design are typical of […]

Colour Challenges

Royal Britannia

The Royal Yachts were traditionally black in colour, but Queen Elizabeth II decided to go for a very dark blue for Royal Yacht Britannia (1954-1997)   Hex colour reference:  #414A4C […]

Colour Challenges

Orchid or Ballockwort

  Hex colour reference:  E6A8D7 A colourful note:  The first recorded use of orchid as a color name in English was in 1915, though the actual shade referred to can vary […]