Greetings, Wizard Writers!
Welcome to the Color Magic series!One of my favorite writing tricks, learned years ago in a descriptive writing class, is to use paint swatches to get ideas for writing colors. You can find paint swatches at your favorite paint store—Home Depot, Lowe’s, Ace—or through an online search. When writing a color, it often gets boring to use blue (or whatever color) time and again, so over the years, I've made lists of different ways to say “blue.” Here are some of my favorite finds, and I hope to share my other colors with you over the next weeks as well.
Use these colors in the place of blue, especially when you’re writing longer works. You can even use these colors for inspiration to write poetry or for particular themes in novel writing.
Deep Blue Sea
Garden Pool
Cool Rain
Swimming Pool
Turquoise
Sea Swell
Pacific Pleasure
Ocean Sigh
Ocean
Water Fountain
Nautical
Navy
Beach Sparkles
Celestial
Skyward
Summer Splash
Misty
Shaded Lake
Icy Blue
River Mist
Crystalline
Cosmic
Cobalt
Teal
Denim
Rainstorm
Sky
Aquarium
Cloud Burst
Fresh Water
Powder
Bluebell
Sapphire
Blue Jewel
Smoky Blue
Dark Night
Midnight
Slate
Blueberry
Silvery Blue
Bird’s Egg
Periwinkle
Peacock
Blue China
Hawaiian
Here is a link to the Benjamin Moore paint swatch page: https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/color-overview/find-your-color/color-families/blu/blue?source=%2Fen-us%2Fcolor-overview%2Ffind-your-color%2Fcolor-families
You could also Google other painting companies as well.
Can you think of other ways to write blue? Do you have any tips on color description? Please share in the comments below!
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