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Currant Colors
Last year I planted a black currant, ribes nigrum, this week black currant is our focus – Color Week 24. My primary objective for planting a black currant was to harvest the berries to make my own Cassis for cocktail making. I like to delve into the history and uses of each plant I grow…
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Hibiscus
Color Week 23 brings us to matching the color of hibiscus flower tea. This color came to mind as I was making some deliciously tart tea from dried hibiscus flowers purchased in bulk at the asian market. As a color match I have chosen Anthraquinoid Red. Warm violet-red, this slightly granular, super-staining vat pigment is…
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CORAL watercolor
Color Week 22 welcomes Coral. Coral is a blend of Orange and Pink and is named from the marine intervertebrae, specifically the Pink/ Orange skeleton of precious coral. When visiting Perdido Beach near Pensacola Florida I would always walk the beach in the morning. One day I stopped a fellow beach walker who was walking…
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It’s Warm
Color Week 21 came about as a friend and I were walking back from dinner on what was one of the 1st really warm days of the year. In search of a color topic of the week, my friend who is also a sketcher, suggested the color of the sky in those fleeting minutes around…
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