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Sunday, August 31, 2025

RSC - August - Aqua

The August colour is Aqua.  Although Angela said if Aqua was too hard, do more blues...LOL.

But where does Aqua start & finish . . . and what about Turquoise & Teal??- they are all close on the colour wheel.

I did a bit of googling and found these graphics.  Interesting that both Aqua and Turquoise are "Brilliant bluish green" but Teal is "Moderate bluish green".

Aqua
 
About these coordinates    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#00FFFF
sRGBB (rgb)(0, 255, 255)
HSV (hsv)(180°, 100%, 100%)
CIELChuv (LCh)(91, 72, 192°)
SourceHTML/CSS[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorBrilliant bluish green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)


Turquoise
 
About these coordinates    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#40E0D0
sRGBB (rgb)(64, 224, 208)
HSV (hsv)(174°, 71%, 88%)
CIELChuv (LCh)(81, 59, 179°)
SourceX11
ISCC–NBS descriptorBrilliant bluish green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Teal
 
About these coordinates    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#008080
sRGBB (rgb)(0, 128, 128)
HSV (hsv)(180°, 100%, 50%)
CIELChuv (LCh)(48, 38, 192°)
SourceHTML/CSS[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorModerate bluish green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)


I also found some general info re colours:


Red: passion, physical energy, warmth, aggression, and danger.
Yellow: happiness, creativity, mental stimulation, impatience, and cowardice.
Blue: calmness, honesty, trust, stability, and responsibility.
Orange: spontaneity, adventure, dynamism, warmth, exhibitionism, and superficiality.
Green: growth, freshness, harmony, prosperity, envy, and greediness.
Purple: spirituality, imagination, mystery, royalty, wisdom, and immaturity.
Pink: unconditional love, sympathy, femininity, comfort, playfulness, and childishness.

Anyway - I raided the stash...not too many precut strips - so I cut a bunch of strips.

I made these at the recent retreat and finished the placemat bindings at home:

4 Placemats


18 Colourwash blocks


Next month is "Pastels"....wonder what I will find to use??

5 comments:

  1. Interesting info about colours…..
    Lovely placemats and a good collection of blocks….

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  2. Your aqua's are lovely - I would find pastels very difficult! Good luck. xx

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  3. Thanks for the color info. Aqua is definitely a color with a wide range. I have a lot of it in my stash but not so much in the scrap bins.

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  4. That looks like very scientific research!
    Hugz

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  5. Aqua and teal are lovely colours and your placemats turned out well. The colour was collection is now growing nicely.

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