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A material study / 042

Citrine

Honey light, basalt & the November birthstone.

A late-afternoon room in southern Brazil: lemon plaster, honey linen and a slab of banded agate, grounded by dark basalt and a little yerba-mate green.

Explore the palette

6 colors / 3 material notes / An authored interpretation

A citrine cluster, a honey citrine point, a golden geode, banded agate and yerba mate leaves on pale linen.Study 042 / The room
Plate 042 / Material & memory

01 / The palette

Six colors, one atmosphere.

Screen colors are authored interpretations. Material photographs show surface character; they are not calibrated color samples.

02 / Play with the composition

Let the light do the gilding.

Start with lemon walls and a honey textile, then keep the deep topaz orange to one glass object. Move the beam of afternoon light and its warmth below to see how much gold the room can take.

Lemon plaster walls, a honey linen sofa, an agate-topped table, a dark basalt floor and a window onto green trees.
Live pattern & proportion study

Palette proportions / Total 100%

Starting points

The afternoon beam and palette proportions respond to your settings. The room image is a fixed interpretation.

Light position: 40% · Light warmth: 35% · Lemon Citrine: 30%; Honey Citrine: 15%; Banded Agate: 15%; Imperial Topaz: 10%; Yerba Mate: 15%; Basalt: 15%

03 / Translate

From a room to an interface.

The room
Lemon plaster walls, a honey linen sofa, an agate-topped table, a dark basalt floor and a window onto green trees.

The interface

CASA DO SOL

Objects, rooms & materials

Honey light, all afternoon.

Notes on golden stones, warm plaster and long southern evenings.

Rolling green hills with vineyards and araucaria pines in warm late-afternoon haze.
Citrine / Warm stone / Flax linenCollection 042

The same palette. Different roles.

Materials

The ingredients.

Golden citrine crystals with honey-colored facets.
CitrineGolden quartz crystals with a honey tone and bright facets.
Honey limestone with a weathered granular surface, delicate pores, pale fossil traces and warm beige variations.
Warm stoneA honey-toned stone for a broad, warm surface.
Close view of loosely folded natural flax linen with visible irregular threads and soft shadows.
Flax linenAn undyed weave that softens the gold.

An imagined setting.
A contemporary interpretation,
with references kept beside the study.

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From the board

Save the study.

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Overhead view of an oak specimen tray with nine compartments holding a citrine cluster, a honey citrine point, a faceted pale yellow citrine, a golden quartz geode, a basalt rock, a slice of banded agate, an orange topaz crystal, dried yerba mate leaves and a brass loupe, with six labeled paint chips and a proportion bar below.
November Birthstone Color Palette: Citrine, Imperial Topaz & Agate, Sampled in BrazilSave to Pinterest

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Sources & interpretation

A contemporary room and specimen arrangement inspired by citrine and agate associated with Rio Grande do Sul. Colors are authored from a styled arrangement, not measured from a particular specimen. Heat treatment of amethyst is the common origin of commercial citrine; the study does not identify any stone as natural or treated.

The palette follows the authored material references in this collection. Room, object and material imagery were created for this study. These are imagined settings, with no affiliation to the fictional interface brands.

The controls explore screen composition, not physical pigment recipes or material measurements. Image rights · Image permissions

About this study

The palette, the materials, and what you can take away.

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