Color fascinated Leonardo da Vinci. His notebooks are filled with notes about his observations of the subtle colors of the world around him. Of particular interest to daVinci was the effect atmosphere had on the color of objects at a distance within a landscape. In the morning light Leonardo observed that distant objects look bluer [...] Read more »
15th Century Color Trend: The Blue of Distance
You may think color trends are a rather recent phenomenon but seeking out the hottest hues may be almost as old as the colors on the walls at Lascaux. Throughout history new colors, techniques and applications were first seen in art rather than the fashion runway or the auto show but they were no less [...] Read more »
Give The Gift of Color: Wolf Kahn
“What do you get a color lover for Christmas?” A question that I have been asked and have answered many time in the past few years. When it came up again this year it prompted me to endeavor to give my answer in a series of blog post titled “Give The Gift Of Color.” First [...] Read more »
If You Want to Learn to Really See Color Try This.
If you want to learn to see and understand color there is no better training ground than learning to duplicating what you see in paint, pastels or colored pencils. It requires you to really see the color of things. In fact, most artist spend as much time looking at what they are painting as they [...] Read more »
