“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

“Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green and red…”
Claude Monet

“Reds, yellows and oranges conjure up sunlight and fire, while the blues and blue-greens evoke snow and ice, sea, sky and moonlight.”
Anonymous
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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 [...]

“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
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“The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.”
Vincent Van Gogh

Today’s Flickr photo find is from Goodcryst.  I like the way the bright colored balls create repetition and contrast against the middle ground of black, white and sand.  Also the red cap on the young girl in the foreground and the two red balls above really draw my eye into the picture.
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It’s funny how sometimes I end up working with the same color family on different projects at the same time.  Well, today in cyberspace was no different.
On Color For Home where it seems to be my day for green– either replacing it or recommending it.  You can see my latest post here…

Here is a sign I see at least three times a week and it has become a good reminder to me of how strong our associations with particular colors can be.
Can you guess where it is?
I just posted a short article inspired by this sign.  You can read it here…

As part of the city of Minneapolis’ ever-growing commitment to sustainability and the environment, Mayor R.T. Rybak and the City Council began an earnest campaign on April 1 to add the color green to the list of primary colors, which currently includes only the colors red, yellow and blue.
“With the coming of spring, and the [...]