Prompt 4: Kyanite (also Prompt 1: Lapis Lazuli)

Both kyanite and lapis lazuli (the alternative first prompt) are blue semi-precious stones; so this set of graphics obviously is going to involve shades of blue. First of all, let me show you what the blue version of brown128.jpg looks like, i.e. when the GRSites.com colour-wheel-rotation doohickey is applied to the original graphic. As before, click on the graphic to see what it looks like when tiled across a webpage.



As you can see, the brown portions of the original have become shades of blue, but the olive-grey areas have become a brown-grey.

As with the last couple of posts, I'm now going to show you examples of all-blue ("solid") versions. I think I've mentioned that, depending on how I've derived them, there can be subtle differences, even when the shade of blue is very similar. Look at these two. (I suggest opening them in side-by-side tabs, so you can click back and forth.)



Of course, there are many shades of blue—from darkest navy to palest ice. Here are a rather more varied selection of blue variants, organized so those in the first row are lightly textured and those at the end have the most dramatic patterns.




Shades of blue also vary in hue from indigo tints bordering on purple to peacock shades approaching turquoise; and just as red is often seen in conjunction with its neighbours on the colour wheel, orange and yellow, so blue is often seen combined with turquoise and/or purple.

This is where the GRSites.com colour-wheel rotation doohickey came in handy: if I chanced on an attractive combination, I could shift the colours to produce a range of variants. Some of these would be far round the wheel; and the new combinations might appear so different as to seem completely unrelated (and might not be very successful to look at). However, minor shifts could produce a subtler range of variation. Here's one such set. Because I first created the blue/indigo version, I tend to think of them as "the bluebell collection".



(Sadly, GRSites.com is no more. I spent some time on line looking to see if anyone was offering some similar gadget; but I couldn't find anything like it.)

While I intend to look at bicoloured variants in a later post, I'm going to finish up here with a selection of graphics in which blue is the dominant hue, but is combined with touches of contiguous colours, either on the purple or the turquoise side.






Previous Days:
Prompts #1 and #2 (Amber and Topaz)
Prompt #2 (Rose Quartz)
Prompt #3 (Garnet)
Prompts #3 and #4 (Moonstone and Hematite)