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Appreciation post: A rainy Tuesday with my kids changed my mind about color blocking

I was trying to sketch a fall line and kept hitting a wall, everything felt too safe. Then my youngest spilled a whole thing of finger paints on a white sheet, and the way the bright orange and deep blue mixed with the green in a messy, off-center way was weirdly perfect. I snapped a picture and spent the rest of the week reworking my designs around those unexpected, asymmetrical color clashes. Has anyone else found design ideas in a total mess?

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adamellis5d agoRising Star

My dog chewed up a stack of old blueprints once. The torn edges and teeth marks gave me a better layout idea than anything I'd drawn clean.

henry5975d ago

That thing about the torn blueprints, my buddy had a similar moment. His kid taped a bunch of broken crayon pieces to a window, and the random color pattern gave him a whole new idea for a mural he was stuck on. Sometimes the best stuff comes from a wreck.