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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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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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Ink [ part one ]
After 50 weeks of posting about color, I continue to be curious about color in the arts and will continue to explore for another year here. This week it’s ink part one! The curiosity about ink color started when I was setting up some tools for trying modern calligraphy and asked myself ‘how is ink […]
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What Color is Grandpa Green
When a 19 year old tells you his truck color is ‘Grandpa Green’ what comes into my 60 something mind is dusty and slow! This is Color Week 50 and we are about to discover the color dubbed ‘Grandpa Green’. The process of coming up with color names can be surprisingly rigorous, involving color specialists, […]
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Winter Color Icon
Cardinals do not migrate so you can spot them year-round. However, some find it easier to spot them in winter because of their color. Birdwatchingbuzz.com Red is an iconic color of Christmas and the Great Northern Cardinal is an iconic winter bird in many areas of the United States making this red bird the subject […]
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Color Influence
Recently I was chatting with a friend about this blog, posting every week about color. Here we are at Color Week 47. She was remembering that I had given her color cards and a book to help her monitor her moods… WHAT? That was probably 25 years ago, and she was in a stressful position […]
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Thanksgiving Colors
Color Week 46 welcomes Thanksgiving. This past week I started an online class with Shari Blaukopf – Sketching Markets. As I have mentioned previously Shari has a way with color, making this class assigment a perfect homage to the colors on the Thanksgiving table. Enjoy the colors of your Thanksgiving celebration. Hansa Yellow. Sap Green. […]
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Rose Madder Genuine
Color Week 45 is about a ‘Genuine’ color. After much research I have discovered that a color has the designation genuine when the ‘original’ recipe is used in production. That is the case with Rose Madder Genuine discussed in this post. Permanent is the designation when the recipe is reworked as in Rose Madder Permanent. […]
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