How to turn your dream into a color scheme - Week 4

It FRIDAY! It time again for another Dream Scheme Friday! Every Friday I take a dream that I have had recently or from a past dream journal and I turn it into a color scheme. Friday's blog always gets me inspired and ready to go into an art-filled weekend. Let's Begin!

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   We are reaching back into the past again to a dream journal entry that I actually can't remember! Almost every single entry I can retrieve the imagery instantly as I read it and it is like I had the dream the night before. There are only a handful of dreams I do not remember and this is one of them. Also the dream stops so abruptly that I thought it was interesting enough for the blog! This was written in my dream journal on

Tuesday February 28th, 2011

    I was standing on a platform in the clouds and it lowered me down dramatically like an elevator. When it finally reached the ground my closest friends and I are standing in an "Avatar-like" field. There were close to 50 mere-cats dancing together in the magical grass behind a jeep. We walked toward a bush and they all followed me. 

We then heard a scary growl coming from a large hole in the bush. We all stepped back in fear and then a giant bunny hopping out all cute and innocent. We all laughed together and then continued walking along taking in everything around us. 

We then saw two women who looked like twins but felt more like mother and daughter. They were sitting on a white deck with very nice patio furniture. They welcomed us to the land and told us how amazing it was here and how lucky we were to have found it. They were very happy to live in their crazy little paradise. 

We went inside this clean and simple hotel-like room and set down luggage like we had been traveling for days and finally arrived..... Then the dream ended.

              This dream had many different visuals but when reading it I got a general sense of a tone of colors! I tried to represent that feeling in each color. Each color represents a certain part of the dream or feeling the dream gave me. 

Color 1 - The first color is the general color of the "Avatar-like" field that we landed in from the clouds.

Color 2 - This was very close to the first color but just darker for the scary noises that come from the large bush.

Color 3 - The blue is representation of the clouds as we came down from the sky and entered the dream.

Color 4 - The pale tan color was for the dancing mere-cat herd.

Color 5 - The darker tan was also for the mere-cats but for the feeling of them following behind me.

Color 6 - The final grey-brown is for the sudden ending in the dream but not leaving uncomfortable feelings.

Bonus Color - Stark White - I couldn't show the white in the color scheme but it needed to be added because the deck and furniture that the women are sitting on felt very important.

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This is something anyone can do! Write down your dream and create a color scheme from it. Use it to make a meaningful painting for your bedroom or to pick out your outfit for the day. I believe we have dreams to guide us and show us things that are hiding in our subconscious. This is just one way to use the wonderful information your mind has given to you while asleep. 

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Well there you have it! Another week, another color scheme. How are you guys enjoying it? Has anyone had any dreams that they have written down lately? Have you tried this yourself? Let me know in the comments below and maybe I can make a color scheme of one of your dreams! Don't forget to subscribe and everyone have a wonderfully inspiring day!

Until Tomorrow - Dream Away

Samantha Menzo

Cloud Nine Studios

Etsy Featured Item of the Day:

Mugwort Dream Oil by - MotherMountainHerbs

Song of the Day:

Blondie - Dreaming

Color of the Day:

Benjamin Moore Barren Plain

How to turn your dream into a color scheme - Week 3

Happy Friday! It time again for another Dream Scheme Friday! Every Friday I take a dream that I have had recently or from a past dream journal and I turn it into a color scheme. I always have so much fun with my blog on Fridays so let's just get right into it! 

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I have really been lacking in the dream department lately which is very unlike me! So let us once again dive deep into my past and open a dream journal to see a dream I had a year ago. This was written in my dream journal on

March 20, 2014

              I was in a school and late for class. I fumbled through my books and things in my hands and locker to find something important like a binder so I could make it to class. I knew i was already too late but I hustled to get there anyway. I stepped inside the classroom that was small with everyone at their desks. The teacher calmly turned toward me it seemed he was expecting this to happen. I stopped & he said, "I wouldn't even bother going any further, it's useless. The building is on fire." Then he smiles still calm and looked to the back of the room in the corner desk their was a candle that had caught the desk on fire. Everyone else looked and when they noticed the candle the room turned into a madhouse. People shoved past me in the doorway and I didn't understand why someone didn't try to put it out for the fire was certainly still containable.

After most everyone made their way out, I did the same....things got fuzzy & I was trying to find my way out of the building. The hallways were all now dangerously aflame and every way I turned I was in harm. Next thing I know I am in a hallway where both sides are completely blocked with fire. I stood & turned toward an entire wall of glass windows. On the outside were all my classmates peering in at me in danger. Someone else was trapped with me but I never saw their face and they always stayed directly behind me. 

A girl from outside came to the window and began trying to break the window with her forehead. It looked insane but after a few tries she managed to break the glass enough for me to kick the rest of it through and create a whole to climb to safety. The most vivid part of the dream was when I reached my freedom it was my favorite weather. It was gloomy and sprinkling rain. I was walking on a sidewalk and looking down at the drops fall and feeling the cold water hit my body and I felt still and calm. That was the end.

This was one of my longer dreams and I felt it was harder to make a color scheme that wasn't all just fire colors but here it is! Each color represents a certain part of the dream or feeling the dream gave me. The first there colors obviously represents the flames from the fire but I wanted to make sure I had a very burnt red and orange and not neon bright colors. The dream fell like fall or damp even for there being fires. The fourth color grey is a very general middle grey to represent the lockers and normal school inside. The fifth color of a grey-brown was from the feeling I got from the being behind me that followed me but I never knew who it was. Lastly the sixth and final color of navy blue is for the calming sensation I felt with the rain hitting me and the weather being so dreary but comforting.

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This is something anyone can do! Write down your dream and create a color scheme from it. Use it to make a meaningful painting for your bedroom or to pick out your outfit for the day. I believe we have dreams to guide us and show us things that are hiding in our subconscious. This is just one way to use the wonderful information your mind has given to you while asleep. 

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Well there you have it! Another week, another color scheme. How are you guys enjoying it? Has anyone had any dreams that they have written down lately? Have you tried this yourself? Let me know in the comments below and maybe I can make a color scheme of one of your dreams! Don't forget to subscribe and everyone have a wonderfully inspiring day!

Until Tomorrow - Dream Away
Samantha Menzo
Cloud Nine Studios

Etsy Featured Item of the Day:

SHAMANIC DREAMS CANDLE by- ScentualGoddess

Song of the Day:
Gavin DeGraw - Fire

Color of the Day:

Blush Pink

How to turn your dreams into a color scheme - Week 1

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HELLO EVERYONE!

I am super excited for today's blog! Today starts the first weekly Friday Dream Scheme post. Friday's blog post will be about one of my dreams that I have had either recently or from past years that I recorded in a journal. Then I will make a color scheme to go along with the dream! Let's do this.

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I haven't had any dreams this past week that I remember, so I decided to go back in my dream records and revisit one from my past. This was written in my dream journal dated for 

Tuesday Feb 28, 2013 - 3:19pm

It started were I felt like I was on a type of school field trip and I had entered a magical little gift shop. I knew I had to buy one item as if it were some assignment but I couldn't afford anything except an ugly trucker baby blue baseball cap. I kept looking around the shop though and something caught my eye! It was an incense burner in the shape of a detailed castle and the stick poked out the tower. I wanted it so badly. I also saw a miniature chess set that had really beautifully carved pieces and the board could fold up into a little cube that could fit into your pocket. 

Then somebody entered into the store and told me to run and hurry up, it was time to go! The next thing I know, I am in the sky held up by a giant orb shaped cage. There were a few other people inside it along with me. I didn't have my proper balance and the orb shifted or tilted and I fell onto my stomach. It scared me and I grabbed the bars of the orbed cage to make sure I couldn't fall through. My baby blue hat fell off of my head and glided to the ground far below me. I felt depressed about watching it float in the wind for awhile and I knew I wouldn't be able to get it back. Then the dream ended.  

Here is my dream color scheme! Each color represents a certain part of the dream or feeling the dream gave me. The first color is the baby blue of the baseball cap. The second color is the sky blue I see when I think of the cap floating away in the wind. The third color grey is the general color I get from the castle incense burner and the following fourth color brown is the actual incense sticking out. The fifth color of light grey was from the feeling of panic I felt when being rushed out of the shop and loosing my balance. Lastly the sixth and final color represents the bars that confined me and the others in the orb-shaped cage in the sky.

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This is something anyone can do! Write down your dream and create a color scheme from it. Use it to make a meaningful painting for your bedroom or to pick out your outfit for the day. I believe we have dreams to guide us and show us things that are hiding in our subconscious. This is just one way to use the wonderful information your mind has given to you while asleep. 

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Not every dream you have may be a nice dream. What if you have a reoccurring nightmare or you have a dream so vivid it frightens you throughout your whole day. I say embrace it! Write it down and create a color scheme. Using those colors on a piece of paper with colored pencils and then setting it on fire or tearing it up and throwing it away, might help release the negative attachment to the dream. 

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What do you think! Every Friday I will be doing this in the blogs and I hope it will inspire you to create color schemes from your dreams! You might even find that you connect with my color scheme that I came up with and feel compelled to do a piece of artwork with it. Let me know your thoughts below in the comments about your dreams.

Until Tomorrow - Dream Away

Samantha Menzo

Cloud Nine Studios

Etsy Featured Item of the Day:

Blue and Gold Sweet Dreams Little One, Hand Painted Log Slice Nursery Decor by - FieldandForestDesign

Song of the Day:

Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams

Color of the Day:

Benjamin Moore Milkyway: a very soft, pale blush of yellow cream

How to Create Color Schemes from past memories.

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Don't you just LOVE the faded colors in this image?! I wish I could easily create a color scheme from this image.....OH WAIT I CAN!

Anyone who has ever been on Pintrest raise your hand! Pintrest is a great site/app where you can "pin" things from the internet and save them on boards for later. It's great for ideas and inspiration....but you already knew that because I am sure you raised your hand.

I of my favorite things to pin on Pintrest is color schemes and color inspiration. People take an image and pull the colors from the photos to create beautiful and unique color schemes!  I have use many of these in the past for my painting and even just coloring for fun. Below are a few examples of FUN color schemes.

Looking at all these wonderful color schemes gave me the idea that I could create my own! I began to think of specific memories. The first thing that cam to my mind was my best friend growing up and swimming in the summer outside at her house. I immediately went right back there. I made this color scheme from the little things I could remember about those times.

3. Summers with Lauren

I don't know how much I like the colors together but I have very specific memories attached to each color and they all have meanings which I really enjoy. 

-The light gray is for the concrete in her driveway.

- The orange is for the Kraft mac and cheese (characters) we would have for lunch.

-The bright blue was for the bottom of the poo.l

- Green for the super healthy long grass I remember them always having.

- Faded brown for the privacy fence that was between her and our favorite neighbors.

- Ruby red for the color of their van parked in the driveway.

I smile when seeing this color scheme. Why wouldn't I always do this for coming up with my paintings colors?! So much meaning and nobody even needs to know except me!

Then I decided to try to recreate memories from old pictures I had. Which was even easier! 

Here are two that I came up with......

2. Christmas with my younger brother

Wasn't I cute!? Yeah I know, my brother is cuter. Look at that cheese face! He is moving across country next week so everyone leave a nice comment saying good luck! I will miss him very much so I definitely wanted to choose a picture with him in it and I love this old Christmas picture of us.
I was pleasantly pleased with how the color scheme came out.

1. Hall's nursery going away party

Before I got a job at the glass gallery Habatat Galleries, I worked for a lovely family owned plant nursery in Saint Clair Shores, Michigan, They are called Hall's Nursery and click the link to check them out! I only worked for them one summer but when I told them I was leaving they threw me a going away party and I was so surprised and grateful at how nice the family was to their employees, This picture was taken at Hall's during that picnic and I loved the colors so I choose this image to create a color scheme with as well. 

You can easily create color scheme based on memories or pictures from the past just as I did. You can create it on you palette as you color or on the computer like the examples shown above. You can use  the paint program that comes on your computer or Photoshop (if you are more tech savvy). Simply open up your image in the programs and then use the dropper tool to pull color from the image and then you can create color blocks on the side or bottom of your image. Use as many or as few colors as you want just have FUN with it! 

What do you think? Are you inspired to create your own color schemes? What memories would you choose? Let me know your thoughts and questions in the comment box and don't forget to Subscribe!

Until Tomorrow - Dream Away

Samantha Menzo

Cloud Nine Studios

Etsy Featured Item of the Day:

Lace Tape, Bud Silk Stationery Stickers, Lace Stickers, Bud Silk Stickers, Lace stationery tape by- PokemonGarden

Song of the Day:

          Amos Lee - Colors (feat. Norah Jones)

Color of the Day:

Benjamin Moore paint color Douglas Fir (2028-20)