Colour Inspiration Tuesday: May is Green

Colour Inspiration Tuesday: The next Colour in the 2018 Monthly Color Challenge is Green!

It’s that time again…. the Colour Inspiration Tuesday featuring our next colour of the month. So, here it is:  May is Green! The colour of the month here at Clever Chameleon is defined as our monthly focus colour for Jen Shaffer’s Monthly Color Challenge and blog hop. So, next week we are moving on from orange to a very popular colour, green. In the meantime you have a week left to get your orange creations done for April and linked up at Patterns by Jen to be in the running for a Fat Eighth pack of Pumpkin Patch fabrics from Island Batik.

Green. Our next colour of the month is soothing, healing and relaxing. Time to take a breather from the recent warm stimulating colours of our monthly challenge and chill out with green. 

May is Green. The colour of growth and prosperity and frogs. I hope the month of May brings you much as luck and peace as its colour promises.

Green is the colour of Good. Freshness, cleanness, safety and health; green is the colour to aspire to. The colour of positive action. When an idea is awesome, we give it the “green light”. Green says GO! 

Green is also the colour of help when you need it most. In South Australia, the amazing men and women of our ambulance service wear green. Green is the safety of a pedestrian crossing, an emergency exit and an assembly point. It points out where and when it is safe. Green is reassuring.

In nature, green is also a protector. Green is the most common colour of camouflage, used by an amazing array of creatures. Insects, amphibians, fish, reptiles and birds all come in stunning shades of green. Even chameleons like green. 🙂

But what about mammals? Well, while not many of us are naturally green, some prefer to adopt the green look. If you are not familiar with the sloth and his symbiotic relationship with green, you should check it out. Slowly, of course…..

It’s no secret that I am a nature lover…. so here are a few more green critters, just because I couldn’t resist them!

Green is Growth

Moving on, before we get terminally distracted by the animal kingdom…… Green is also King in the plant kingdom. Green is the colour of nurture and growth – actively growing plants cleaning our air. Spring in particular is green and full of promises. Green buds, green shoots, little green fruits swelling on the trees. Green is pure and new.

Good food is green. Vitamins, minerals and antioxidants all seem to be packaged at the highest concentrations in the greenest vegetables. So, when we want to treat our bodies well, we eat green. We sometimes even drink green! The more benefit we are looking for, the greener it gets.

Sometimes green is tasty. Sometimes, not so much. If you ask a child, they will probably tell you that green is evil incarnate. But eventually most of us make peace with the diabolical Lord Broccoli. 

Conscientious Green

Green is sensible, dependable, responsible. Dark green is the calm half of Christmas.

Green is also the colour adopted by people trying to keep our planet healthy and the colour of all things eco. Tree planting, recycling, renewable energy, public transport….. green is the mascot of a cleaner future. 

Green is usually serene. But it can also be surreal, a side dish of intrigue. Green is the colour of luck, superstition and ancient rituals. Green is deep and mysterious and the colour of the unexplained phenomenon. I’m assured Martians are green. 

I don’t really know about that, but I do know all my favourite frogs are green. And that if we do not look after our environment, they will be among the first to go. Kermit tells us it’s not easy being green…….. but he’d probably agree it is for the best!

I hope the colour green makes you feel balanced, soothed, de-stressed, energised. Perhaps green even makes you want to dance, even if only on the inside.

I hope you will be joining us for the green colour challenge in May. Green is a very popular colour so hopefully lots of you will be inspired to make a quilt block or even a whole quilt in green and link it up for a chance at the May prize for the Monthly Color challenge.

But don’t forget to finish your orange entries for April first! And, don’t forget to come back on the 1st of May for your free Beary Colourful BOM green bear pattern.

P.S. You can find all the unmarked photos used for this May is Green feature in this folder on Unsplash.com. 

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