{"id":48311,"date":"2020-01-18T06:50:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=48311"},"modified":"2020-01-16T10:09:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T17:09:22","slug":"year-of-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/year-of-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highfibercontent.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/instagram-to-start-year.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julie reminded me<\/a> about the <a href=\"https:\/\/yearofcolour.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Year of Colour<\/a>, so I decided to try it again. I wasn&#8217;t on IG much towards the end of the year, so I was curious to see if I got rid of more of the neutrals than showed up <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/colorplay-year-of-colour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48313\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48313\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Year of Colour for 2019\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour.jpg 1231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Year of Colour for 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nope. Those neutrals still dominate, darn it! I have a lot of reds, but I thought the turquoises would be more prevalent.There are some options and I chose &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-options.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use fewer skin tones<\/a>&#8216;. Is that cheating?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48318\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-fewer-skin-tones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48318\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-fewer-skin-tones-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"Year of Colour for 2019 with fewer skin tones\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-fewer-skin-tones-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-fewer-skin-tones-1024x1015.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-fewer-skin-tones-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-fewer-skin-tones-768x761.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-fewer-skin-tones-1200x1189.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Year-of-Colour-fewer-skin-tones.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Year of Colour for 2019 with fewer skin tones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You can play around a lot with the layout. I would have except I didn&#8217;t have time. Duty calls. If you did a Year of Colour, leave a link to your post in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie reminded me about the Year of Colour, so I decided to try it again. I wasn&#8217;t on IG much towards the end of the year, so I was curious to see if I got rid of more of the neutrals than showed up last year. Nope. Those neutrals still dominate, darn it! I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/year-of-colour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Year of Colour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}