Rune wrote:

> I tried out a few more colors. I gave Christians suggested sky blue
> another chance and made a lighter less saturated blue. It looked better.
> Quite ok. Then I tried gold to see if really no colors with yellow in
> would work at all. Gold looks ok too actually. Not something I'd have on
> my walls myself, but it doesn't look wrong. Then, for some reason I tried
> an average of light blue and gold - and got a really nice color I thought
> first was called beige, but is actually called khaki (according to
> wikipedia). This is the first light color I really like as background. So
> now, I'm even more undecided... :/
> 
> Khaki is up at http://runevision.com/3d/metalandflowers/
> 
> Khaki, being light, has the advantage that it doesn't suffer from the
> problem that Andrel mentioned:
> 
> "If the background color differs too much from the wall color, the first
> impression would be the composition of the frames and not what is in it."
> 
> Khaki on a white wall differs just enough to be interesting, but not so
> much that it distracts from the motive. That said, I don't really mind
> that much if people first notice the composition of frames, since this
> composition is indeed part of the "art". So as I said, I'm still
> undecided...
> 
> Rune

I guess I have to revise my opinion :)

I think the khaki works really well. By itself, but also on either a white
wall or a strong colored wall.
-- 
Ger

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