One of the perks of painting every week is having a house full of fresh flowers! I gathered up the wildest color combinations and a plethora of petals for glads and daisies. Once I had the colors arranged just so (aka an arrangement that makes my flower-loving heart go pitty-pat), it was time to break out the paint.

The secret to vibrant purples

One of the colors I love to push past the boundaries of polite society is purple. To make a purple really pop, it’s always a good idea to shift the temperatures midstream. What does this mean? It means chunk in (a technical term, take it literally) red-violets next to periwinkle blues.

Harmonizing heat and chill

By having these two purples next to one another, you’ve placed heat and chill side by side. The eye loves when these things hang out together—the warms and the cools, all getting along like good neighbors, even though they come from different sides of the color tracks, so to speak. Try this at home, flower friends, and let me know how it turns out; I think you’ll like it!

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