Colors: Shades of rose

Rose, dusty rose, crystal rose, vintage rose, blush, salmon pink, coral pink, soft mauve, flush, carnation pink... any which way you describe it, pink is always unmistakably pink.
I'm not much of "flowery pink" girl but I couldn't resist.

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Mucha

Alphonse Mucha (al-FONSE MOO-kah) is one of my favorite artists of the 20th century ever.
I am not a student of art, I just like what I like for particular reasons.

Depiction of Poetry

Mucha was a Czechoslovakian who painted in the Art Nouveau style of the classic 1920's.  His work is readily identifiable and unique in his use of decorative elements of the decade such as curved arches, ornate styling, and "stained glass" effect.  While he came to fame in his lifetime due to his success in commercial work, his work enjoyed a resurgence in the psychedelic art of the 1960's as well.

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He was particularly prone to painting whimsical fairy-goddess like women in diaphanous gowns in the style of the 20's, lounging, pondering or floating about, surrounded by elements of movement and nature -- crowns of fragrant flowers in their hair, folds of fabric whipped about their body by an invisible wind, dipping their toes in luxurious perfumed rivers, long hair roiled in graceful curls, walking through a forest with boughs that sway and bend before their slightest touch to let these ladies pass.

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Maybe it's Mucha's proclivity to ethereal beauty, his elements of nature, the style of the 1920's, the stained glass effect of his painting technique or all or none of the above that calls to me.

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Mucha is best known for his series depicting women as different elements: the Seasons, the Arts, the Hours of Day, the Celestial Elements.

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Depiction of hours of the day

Depiction of the seasons

Creamy dreamy white on White

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Images from my blog reader: Rainbow Room

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Images from my blog reader: shades of summer

I thought this was a really mouthwatering array of color.

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Images from my blog reader: paper heart garland + birds

Every now and then images from my blog reader stand out to me.  Usually they are from very different sources that have nothing to do with each other and make me do a double take.
These stood out because of their similar colors!

Simple colorful garland from here.  Birds from here.

Wedding Wednesday: Color Pop

Yes you saw it coming didn't you?

Well my last Flower Friday post was a sort of "wedding bouquet" edition so the natural progression from that was Wedding Wednesday.

I just recently got married (mere months ago) and I had quite the time finding things that fit my aesthetic.  The internet made that a tad easier but I was left with a huge surplus of visuals that I now feel like sharing partly because I never got a chance to do it before my wedding (due to certain circumstances we only had about a month to actually put things together and had a pretty tight budget to boot.)

Anyway since I was chock full of budget ideas I didn't actually have time to do myself I just want to share some of that thrifty inspiration.

To start off my series I thought I'd feature a wedding that I personally relate to so much because I did some version of the same things.

I love everything about this fun and colorful wedding.  And those shoes!

The bride, with a Christmas ornament bouquet, explains that she couldn't just decide on one color so she ended up going for all the colors, based on the theory that all colors go together.

I relate to this wedding so much because that's what happened to both me and my sister when we got married and we both ended up having multi-colored weddings.  I even wore shoes I had glittered myself!

Yes you saw it coming didn't you?

She even let her bridesmaids choose their own dresses, and in my opinion they all go together.  They don't match, they contrast but the look is still cohesive.  Incidentally these three colors are exactly the colors I wanted for my bridesmaids too.

And the paper flower centerpieces are just killer.

It reminds me so much of things that I wanted or did for my wedding that I shiver, with the only exception that I went more for pastels than brights.

Anyway click here to learn more about this fantastic wedding!