Not the wine, the colour. Or more specifically,
Pantone Color Institute's Color of the Year for 2015. This year's choice made me sit up and take notice because I have always had a soft spot for this particular shade of colour. Something about it pushes all the right buttons and it oozes class. It's an earthy brownish red colour although in some instances it seemingly borders close to dark burgundy.
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| Pantone Color Institute's chosen hue for this year |
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| Perhaps best described as an earthy brownish red |
With Marsala being the 'in-thing' at least where fashion is concerned, we definitely won't be short of online resources to refer to. Below are some examples of Marsala in fashion and how we as miniature painters can incorporate this colour into our projects, either on clothes, accessories or even lips.
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| Source: www.eonline.com |
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| Source: Oh My Jewelry! at blog.jic.org |
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| Source: www.couturecolorado.com |
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| Source: www.camilacoelho.com |
I guess it it goes without saying that I would try to mix this beautiful shade of colour using the paints I have in hand. In my attempts below, you can see that the top- and bottommost rows are too brownish while the second row had what I would call a Marsala burgundy shade. The closest I came was by applying colors used by
Moiterei when painting figures in one of his many beautiful projects which you can see on the third row. Looking back on my miniature painting projects so far, the only miniature I have painted with Marsala-like colours is the Super Dungeon Explore
Ember Mage.
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| Trying to find a mix of colours approximating the Marsala hue |
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| Ember Mage is the only miniature I have painted so far with Marsala-like hues |
Excited by the many possible applications of Marsala colour, I can't wait to see what I can achieve with this alluring hue. If you have your own Marsala paint mix, please do share. In fact, my own search for the perfect Marsala hue hasn't stopped. I plan to experiment with some ivory mixed into brownish red for extreme highlights, among others. After all, finding the right colour is half the fun.
wow, your little mage is up to the monent then, she should be proud ;) I love this colour too
ReplyDeleteIt's such a lovely colour. Heh heh, not really ... the ember mage is more of a dark burgundy as opposed to Marsala but she came pretty close I guess. :)
Deletegood choice for your mini!
ReplyDeleteI just simply followed her original colour scheme as discerned from her board game card art ... tried to anyway. :)
DeleteBeautiful colour. It looks great on the Ember Mage!
ReplyDeleteIt was a better choice than bright red, that's for sure.
DeleteI can't help but think Marsala became the in color, so that people could spill wine on themselves and no one would notice. :)
ReplyDeleteMini looks great. Great color choices!
LoL ... thanks Greg! ^_^
DeleteThat looks very much like P3 Sanguine base! A colour I learned to love at the last painting class I went to!
ReplyDeleteHmmm ... I'm not familiar with that colour but thanks so much for bringing it to my attention. :)
DeleteLove these colors!
ReplyDeleteMe too! :)
DeleteVery nice work on your little mage! Haven't tried to do anything in Marsalla yet but my Late Romans certainly would look 'trés chic' in it ;-)
ReplyDeleteThe colours you used last time to represent brown/red leather came very close if you ask me. :)
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