Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Steampunk Colors I

As I have been exploring this past year in the world of Steampunk, one thing that keeps coming up is all the colors that one has to work with within the world of Victorian culture.   Besides the many shades of metal, rust, and browns, there are many vibrant colors to mix into one's world.  Below is a sample listing of colors I have discovered, though there may be many more.
 
Browns

  • Rockwood Brown 
  • Fairfax Brown
  • Rockwood Medium Brown
  • Rockwood Dark Brown
  • Copper
  • Bronze
  • Rust
  • Terra Cotta
  • Golden Oak
  • Wingate
  • Jorgenson Manor
  • Earth
  • Straw
  • Vanilla
  • Fawn
  • Manilla
  • Light Stone
  • Biscuit 
  • Leather
  • Toffee
  • Chocolette
  • Taupe
  • Jute Brown
  • Butternut
  • Harvester
  • True Penny
  • Tea
  • Light Tea
  • Turkish Coffee
  • Brandywine 
  • Chateau Brown
  • Sepia
  • Mummy Brown
  • Van Dyke Brown
  •  Umber 

Blacks/Grays

  • Onyx
  • Stone
  • Pewter 
  • Light Pewter
  • Nightingale Gray
  • Tricorn Black
  • Mineral Deposit
  • Foothills
  • Request Gray
  • Carbon Black
  • Dark Sky
  • Dovetail
  • Steal
  • Iron
  • Cast Iron
  • French Gray
  • Light French Gray
  • Silver Mist
  • Intellectual Gray
  • Gray Owl
  • Dorian Gray
  • Dunster House Gray
  • Strawbridge Manor
  • Preston Gray
  • Falmouth Gray
Greens

  • Rockwood Jade
  • Green Grass
  • Leaf Green
  • Pine Green
  • Evergreen
  • Dawkins Green
  • Brewster Green
  • Rockwood Dark Green
  • Drab
  • Sage Green
  • Chrome Green
  • Hunt Club
  • Shamrock Green
  • Lucky Green
  • Julep
  • Billards Green
  • Corner Pub
  • Teal
  • Envy
  • Oz Green
  • Green Olive
  • Leapfrog
  • Parakeet
  • Peacock Green
  • Rockwood Sash Green\
There are so many more colors, that I will have to come back and list more later, but that is what I have found in Browns, Blacks, Grays, and Greens thus far!  
Enjoy! 
Let me know if you have any thoughts, ideas or pictures of projects, I love to hear from everyone! 
  
~  Michelle 

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