So the color is ???

OK, finishing up the drywall in my studio room so it’s almost ready for painting. I came to realized that I have no color perspective or matching skills whatsoever which was revealed during this paint color analyzing process. I would think that color plays a significant role in this type of environment, even if it is just me in it most of the time.  Open for suggestions; I do realize the subjectivity of it all.

thanks 

There is but one color: Red. 
All the rest belongs to black-ness. ;)

works for me

I went with Dark Blue on the accent wall behind the desk with Cream walls. Works for me, but I may change it in the spring to something else. Randy

rickbail


I came to realized that I have no color perspective or matching skills whatsoever...

Welcome to the male species Rick
 
 

Color definitely can make a difference.  I've done some research, but am certainly NOT any kind of expert in this area!  The basics off the top of my head are:
 
- Red provides energy, but too much really causes stress and conflict (i.e., "seeing red"),
- Green is relaxing, but too much will put you to sleep (which is why so many senior homes are this color),
- Yellow is good for concentration and creativity, but too much will make you hungry (which is why so many fast food places have yellow in their restaurants)
- Blue is also calming (there's actually a color called "Cardiac Blue" that's used in ICU's), but too much is depressing (i.e., "feeling blue" or "singing the blues")

White will make a room look bigger, grey is less fatiguing for the eyes (which is why the underside of the bill on most ball caps is colored grey) and black will make a room look very small.

I would suggest painting the room white or off-white then adding color with wall coverings, rugs, gobos, dividers or edge work.  With all those options, except edge work, you can change things up as you get used to the room (or if you need to set a certain mood - it might be hard to play Cure songs in a bright and cheerful room or Burl Ives songs in a dark and gloomy area!).

See, that's what I said - all black and a touch of red. Lenny's got taste. :P

I think that we all react differently to colors. I spent most my early years in my grand-parents home, which had lots of red and lots of black. Same in my room there. 

It was a very quiet place, different from my parents' house, and to me, those colors are forever associated w/ a much desirable solitude, reading, drawing, painting and listening to music. Just quiet and peaceful isolation.

So the rooms I've used for my home studio all had plenty of red and black in them. In fact, that's one of the first thing we did when we arrived here - my wife re-painted a few walls red, including the one in front of me in the studio.

Blue and yellow make me feel sick. I just don't feel good in rooms w/ those colors. But I understand that there are different standards.

Green is the Colour, says Pink Floyd.

Would you like to know something More?

Actually, the official choice is tangerine tango. After seeing a swatch of this you will probably wish you had waited to finish the studio.

Painting a studio tangerine in Nov. of 2012?!?! … well break-out my leg warmers and Member’s Only Jacket.  The 2013 Pantone color of the year will most likely come from this grouping of colors:
http://www.pantone.com/pages/fcr.aspx?pg=21005&ca=4

So are you guys making fun of Bapu's studio then?

craigb


So are you guys making fun of Bapu's studio then?

ROFL!!

Thanks for the input and studio pictures, cool ideas and color selections.  

I'd talk with drumstixkev. Definately one of the nicest
I've seen posted.
 
(well if you won't Kev, I will :)


 

Hi,

The color of the room's walls of ceiling have never been an issue for me ... I still write. I am not sure that I could ever think that it was the color of that wall, or the ceiling tapestry or the posters on the wall that made any difference in the work I do, but in general, if you are comfortable with yourself, I am not sure what is really needed, and anything is inspiration as much as anything else.

At times, contrast is good for me, though, as it gives me different stuff, but I tend to expand the ways of writing into different areas and such, that I was not able to do before, and again, I am not sure that is as much me and my age and comfort with the writing, than it is the room I do it in. In some cases, and poems, I've done them when I was at work in the middle of taking calls for database entries.

Thx for asking ... 

craigb

julibee


Alright, you silly boys.

Red and blackness and I'd throw in some gray for good measure.   

Is this your studio Julibee?
 

That looks a bit more like the coke dealer I never had than my "studio".