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Royal Color
I was referred by a reader to a colorful book, Our Rainbow Queen by Sali Hughes. I found a copy on Abe books to add to my color library. Sali Hughes is quoted as saying “The queen tends to wear one color because she feels that if people are queuing for many hours just to…
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Color of Food
Recently I heard Sanjay Gupta MD talking about his book Keep Sharp Build a Better Brain at Any Age so I put a copy in my audible library and started to listen this week. Gupta narrates his book and in Chapter 7 ‘Food for Thought’ he mentions ‘color’ … the color of food. His statement…
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Sunlit Foliage
When out on a trail a quick photo and a sketch are a great way to capture the scene and create a lasting memory. While the trail sketch allows the scene to be edited and put in perspective, final color tends to be a studio practice. In a recent class with Molly Hashimoto she shared…
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Ink part two
Dipping into the history of ink has been somewhat disappointing in that there is not much history about the ‘color’ of writing ink. How did black, blue and red ink come to dominate the ink for handwriting today? The Egyptian and Chinese cultures invented ink simultaneously using charcoal or soot and animal fat hence black…
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