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The Church at Coggeshall

Start With Art: The Church at Coggeshall, Essex by John Armstrong

September 11, 2014  

What a cool painting!  It shows the World War 2 damage to the church, and the "reveal" of the interior structure of the church is fascinating.  So sad that such a lovely piece of art is the result of destruction...From this, I selected two relatively minor colors in the painting as the neutrals, and then used the gorgeous pastels as the accent colors.  The black is clearly visible, but I grabbed the sage green from the shrubbery that's relatively obscured on the left side of the painting.  I think what I'm trying to show here is that, although the painting itself is very bright and muted pastel, it's still possible to pull together a wardrobe from these colors without enriching your dry ... View the Post

09.11.14 10 Comments

Tags: beige, black, green, grey, ivory, Start with Art
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