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Colorful Expressions of Joy

Kate Smith — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:23:24 +0000

BMW gave awesome artist Robin Rhode total creative freedom, paint, a huge canvas and the ultimate driving machine.

Margaret Mellis: A Life in Colour

Kate Smith — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:27:58 +0000

Margaret Mellis, artist, was born on January 22, 1914. She died on March 17, 2009, aged 95. She was one of the last surviving artists from the St. Ives Group of the 1930s. Colour was her true element and she developed a strong constructivist

Color Quote of the Day: November 30th

Kate Smith — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:00:00 +0000

“Never has a pigment been better named than ultramarine blue. Fashionable, even today, in its nomenclature! It is ultra in every way.”

Karen Fitzgerald
American Artist

Color Quote of the Day: November 29th

Kate Smith — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:05:37 +0000

“What, you haven’t any ivory-black on your palette? If you think you are going to make black with blue and red, I can’t have you in my class. You might stir up trouble with such ideas.” Fernand Cormon French Painter (December 24,

Color Quote of the Day: November 28th

Kate Smith — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:05:52 +0000

“I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.”

Eugene Delacroix
French Romantic Artist (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

Color Quote of the Day: November 27th

Kate Smith — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:05:20 +0000

“Colour should be used to depict the three major emotions in a man’s life – anticipation, realization and retrospection.”

Ernest Lawson
Canadian-born American Impressionist Painter, 1873-1939

Color Quote of the Day: November 26th

Kate Smith — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:05:36 +0000

“The mind is excited by what painters refer to as ‘broken color’, the juxtaposition of two or more colors in a single passage.”

Eric Wiegardt, AWS NWS
American Watercolor Artist

Color Quote of the Day: November 25th

Kate Smith — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:05:58 +0000

“The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment’s peace – and even whole-being rejuvenation – by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.”

Eric Maisel
San Francisco-based Creativity Coach for Writers, Actors, Visual Artists, and Musicians

Color Quote of the Day: November 22nd

Kate Smith — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:05:02 +0000

“I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could hear a scream. I painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. The colours screamed.”

Edvard Munch

Color Quote of the Day: November 20th

Kate Smith — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:05:18 +0000

“If you look closely at any face, you’ll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors – red, green, purple and yellow.”

Doug Dawson
Artist