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Green Birds
I am back in a Winslow Art Center online class – Birds! Delving Deeper with Ian de Hoog. We are focusing on green birds and mixing beautiful and illusive green hues. Our green bird this week is the Violet-Green Swallow – a small sleek bird with long pointed wings and slightly forked tails. Length 4.7 […]
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Red Underpinnings
Just in time for Valentines I discovered The Underpinnings Museum. Color this week had to be red and the ‘red lingerie’ exhibit at the museum fit the bill. The exhibit was mentioned on a recent episode of the podcast DRESSED. Today I made a visit to the digital exhibit on the underpinnings museum website. Incediary: […]
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Colors of Gold
A curiosity about the composition of ‘rose gold’ jewelry took me on a journey of discovery around the colors of gold. yellow gold, white gold, rose gold This handy chart [from Wikipedia] says it all, the % alloy alters the gold tone My color challenge this week was to find the watercolors to reproduce the […]
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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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