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Color Week 19 brings us the color wheel. The typical color wheel is a circular display of 12 hues of color arranged according to their relationship to one another. The artists color wheel is comprised using the -Primary colors of Yellow, Red, and Blue – Secondary colors of Orange, Violet and Geen Anyone who works…

Color Week 18 and it’s another green week— on the palette for sketching this week are ‘tube greens’ to capture dogwood, mint and an espalied pear tree! Greens include: Hookers Sap Perylene Cascade Serpentine And I tried an ‘all the green things salad’ this week… adding these beautiful greens from my garden. https://www.cookinglight.com/recipes/all-the-green-things-salad

In color psychology, Turquoise controls and heals the emotions creating emotional balance and stability. psychology of color It’s color week 17 and maybe we can all use a dose of Turquoise. Turquoise is one of the world’s most ancient gems. Archaeological excavations revealed that the rulers of ancient Egypt adorned themselves with turquoise jewelry, and…

It’s color week 16 and some color mixing this week brings transparent orange to the post. Interestingly, in Europe, the color orange didn’t have a name until the 16th century. Prior to that time it was simply called yellow-red. Before the word orange came into common use in English, saffron was sometimes used to describe the…