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Color Quote of the Day: 13-October

Quote of the day — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:05:17 +0000

“To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth.”

Andre L’Hote

Color Quote of the Day: 12-October

Quote of the day — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:05:32 +0000

“I advise students on the subject of color as follows: ‘If it looks good enough to eat, use it.’”

Abe Ajay

Tax Prep in Blue and Violet

Flickr photo find — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:31:48 +0000

I’m not sure that even this fabulous color scheme would convince me that the words “fun” and “taxes” belong in the same sentence.

I do like their unconventional color scheme however and it inspired me to look for other images in blue and violet.

Illuminated Building by Xuexueg

Recolored Plant by Left-Hand

License Plate by Irish Typepad

Playground by Valerie Everett

Color Quote of the Day: 11-October

Quote of the day — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:05:43 +0000

“And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.”

Beatrice Wood

Colors Power to Evoke Memories

Just posted — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:18:48 +0000

Color has this incredible ability to evoke memories. Sometimes we’re not aware of what’s going on in the back of our mind but have a strong like or dislike for a particular color.

Other times a color, or maybe more correctly a color in a specific context, can take us through the millions of images in our mind and locate exactly where we’ve seen that color before. Recently I was reminded of just how powerful this phenomenon is.

I have received several emails from someone who uses a green font and whenever I read his messages I find my mind calling up images of my father’s handwriting.

You see my dad always loved to write with ballpoint pens or flair markers with green ink. It quite literally became his signature color.

So although the context is a bit different when I see the green font it so clearly brings my father’s handwriting into my mind that even seven years after his death I can see his signature as clearly in my mind as if I was looking down at it on a piece of paper.

Amazing isn’t it?

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Color Memories Stay With Us

Translating the Color Code at Harvard

Colorful events — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:39:06 +0000

The development, use, and perception of color is the subject of a new exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History called “Language of Color,” which runs until September 2009.
“Language of Color” examines not just the uses of color for camouflage, mating, and warning, it also examines the structure of color, highlighting how the color blue, for example, is not made from pigments, as yellow and red are, but rather through physical structures that absorb longer wavelengths of light. Similarly, green is most often created by creatures that have yellow pigment augmented by these blue physical structures.

Colors are also viewed differently by different creatures. Some, such as whales, do not have the color vision that humans do; their world is black and white. Other animals, like bees, see colors in the ultraviolet spectrum that humans don’t, perceiving patterns on flowers invisible to the human eye.

Via Translating the color code By Alvin Powell, Harvard News Office

Color Quote of the Day: 10-October

Quote of the day — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:05:14 +0000

“He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.”

Oscar Wilde

Different Tree, Different Autumn Color

Just read — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:03:46 +0000

While all leaf out in green as autumn approaches each type of tree takes on specific colors. Thanks to the US Department of Agriculture for the at-a-glance guide to show us what we can expect from each type.

Read on Syracuse.com

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Quote of the day — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:05:40 +0000

“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”

Vincent Van Gogh

Happy Birthday TJ

Colorful events — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:35:09 +0000

Just as summer transitioned into autumn my son was born and each year his birthday punctuates the moment when I’m finally willing to let summer slip away into the crisp, cooler days of fall.

This is a picture of me as a new mother enjoying my son, fall colors, and soft sunshine outside of Chattanooga, TN where we lived at the time he was born. I think TJ is about a week or so old and he looks so small you’d never know he weighed in at just under 10 pounds when he was born.

TJ’s birthday has always come complete with a picture perfect autumn day and during the years we lived outside of Boston it was often the beginning of “leaf peeping” in Massachusetts. We now live outside of Washington, DC so while mother nature has continued to bestow beautiful days upon us each year the trees have never been able to match the spectacular beauty of the New England countryside in October.

Today as my son turns eighteen I’m feeling a bit nostalgic and remembering the Boston birthdays (year 3-11) and thinking about all of the wonderful times we shared surrounded by autumnal colors. With this in mind I created several paint color schemes inspired by this wonderful time of year and my even more wonderful son, TJ.

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