Happy New Year: What Does A Year Look Like in Color?

A detail from a color spectrum created at the website Year of Colour. The site took Melani Grube's Instagram posts throughout the year of 2018 and extracted the colors and responses to those colors to make this color representation.

Melani Grube's year of Instagram posts represented by a color spectrum from Year of Colour. (2018)

 

Happy New Year!

Would you believe they make a way to look back at how you used color over the year?! That’s what the image above is showing: the colors I used in my posts to Instagram and Facebook in 2018 and how you reacted to those posts and colors.

You can do this, too, (for Instagram, at least) at yearofcolour.com

Thank you to Michelle Andres (an awesome abstract artist) who posted her beautiful color spectrum on Instagram and turned me on to this great site.

 

Best Nine Social Media posts by Melani Grube for 2018, a mixture of fine art and illustration work.

 

I took images from my BestNine (shown above) and set them on top of this palette to see what it looked like. Would the paintings really look good with the colors in the color spectrum?

Scroll down and see for yourself.

 

The painting "Woman in a Red Raspberry Beret" by Melani Grube set on the color spectrum of the colors of her Instagram posts for the year 2018. The spectrum was generated by Year of Colour.

 

The painting “Woman in a Red Raspberry Beret”, set against the year’s color spectrum. See more about this painting in other blog posts here and the original painting here and and prints here.

 

The painting "Tea Time Moment" by Melani Grube set on the color spectrum of the colors of her Instagram posts for the year 2018. The spectrum was generated by Year of Colour.

 

The painting “Tea Time Moment” looks uncannily at home in this color spectrum, don’t you think? You can see more about the original painting here and the prints here.

 

The painting "Wild Horses" by Melani Grube set on the color spectrum of the colors of her Instagram posts for the year 2018. The spectrum was generated by Year of Colour.

 

The painting, “Wild Horses”, with the circles of color from throughout the year. See more about this painting in my blog here and the original painting here and the prints here.

 

The painting "The Kiss" by Melani Grube set on the color spectrum of the colors of her Instagram posts for the year 2018. The spectrum was generated by Year of Colour.

 

The painting, “The Kiss”, set amongst the colors from my posts throughout the year. You can see more about this on my blog here and the original painting here and the prints here.

 

The painting "Winter's Icy Breath" by Melani Grube set on the color spectrum of the colors of her Instagram posts for the year 2018. The spectrum was generated by Year of Colour.

 

A detail from the painting, “Winter’s Icy Breath”, in a fog of color from my posts throughout the year. See the entire original painting here and prints here.

 

What do you think about these?

 

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