{"id":16272,"date":"2012-10-22T03:05:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T10:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=16272"},"modified":"2012-10-19T20:03:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T03:03:02","slug":"turning-maple-palette-premo-color-recipes-vol-054-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/turning-maple-palette-premo-color-recipes-vol-054-b\/16272\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Maple Palette | Premo Color Recipes Vol-054-B"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Turning<\/a><\/a><\/strong>1<\/span>-B<\/span>:<\/span> Maple Syrup<\/span>
\n2-<\/span>B<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> Golden Maple<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/strong>3-<\/span>B<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> Turning Maple<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/strong>4<\/span>–<\/span>B<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong> Maple Tree<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The story behind this elegant Fall color palette is kind of funny. Not ha ha funny like the story behind the Concord Grape Palette<\/a> the other day… but more the other perplexing kind of funny.<\/span><\/p>\n

The perplexing part is that this quite common maple leaf in the photo, actually took quite a long time for me to identify. <\/span><\/p>\n

You see, Doug walks down to the YMCA every weekday morning to go for his workout routine. Over the years he has become kind of a fitness junky. Working out almost everyday… drinking smoothies and protein shakes… and even installing a chin-up bar in the doorway to his office. I myself prefer the low-key approach to staying healthy and choose to walk every weekday morning with a coffee and my best friend Diane. But I digress…<\/span><\/p>\n

Any way… the mornings have been particularly beautiful this Autumn, and Doug has been bringing his camera along for the walk. He has shot lots of pretty sunrises with the foggy air sitting in the valley as he walks down the hill to the Y. As well, he has taken many photos of the colorful changing foliage in the gardens of the homes along the way, one of which is the photo below.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Turning<\/a><\/p>\n

One morning he brought back this leaf to take close-up shots, in the photo light box. Since it is quite small and looked a little on the waxy side in the photos, I thought it was an Ivy leaf. Doug said he found it on the ground, but was pretty sure it had come from a tree and not a vine, like an Ivy Leaf would have.<\/span>The lobes looked a little too round and the leaves were quite small and not as papery looking that I generally associate with Maple leaves, so I went on a hunt for it online. Of course I was led down the long Google garden path and finally determined it was indeed a Fig Leaf. So I went ahead and named the palette and all the colors with Fig theme names; like Dried Fig, Golden Fig, Fresh Fig and Fig Leaf. <\/span><\/p>\n

BTW, this whole color choosing and naming process takes WAY longer than you might expect. Just try and choose yet another set of colors that aren’t the same as one of the previous 400 colors that you have created. And then try and name them something original and somewhat relevant to the photograph and you will see exactly why it takes so long!<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, to make a long story short… Doug comes back from one of his walks (after I have completed the palette), bringing some more leaves and some of those helicopter seeds from this same tree and shows them to me… it’s a Maple… not a Fig… dun dun dun.<\/span><\/p>\n

Crap! Do I just pretend that it really is a Fig Leaf and hope that some arborist in the group doesn’t call me on it? Or do I go to the effort of renaming the palette and the misnamed colors?<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, as you can see the purist side of me won out. So here it is, the Turning Maple Palette!<\/span><\/p>\n

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