Kate Smith is an optimistic, expressive, artist, designer, writer and color fanatic. With her warm and witty style, Kate teaches you to clearly see, understand and be inspired by color. Then she guides you step-by-step to develop your own unique color sense-ability and achieve results you never dreamed possible.
Read Time: 3 min Hans Hofmann was an influential 20th century a German-born American art teacher whose work paved the way for abstract expressionism. Hofmann The selected Hans Hofmann quotes reveal how he thought about color.
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Read Time: 4 min Veuve Clicquot yellow and the wisdom of the Widow Clicquot are colorful inspiration that can keep you on track towards your goals or resolutions.
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Read Time: 2 min Greenhorn, a popular term in the Old West, originally meant new. Today it has a broader meaning and is often considered to be a derogatory term.
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Read Time: 3 min When you say the yellow, consider that the origin of the word yellow go back at least a thousand years—and likely much further than that.
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Read Time: < 1 minute The windows at Anthropologie are always well done but these that asked & answered the question – Why Color?– especially captured my heart.
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Read Time: 2 min In the pink came out of fox hunting but now has an entirely different meaning.
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Read Time: 3 min Purple. It’s a color that calls to mind opulence and royalty. However, the origin of the word purple has a history as rich as the images it evokes.
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Read Time: 3 min Which came first the fruit or the color? The origin of the word orange reveals the answer to this color riddle.
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Read Time: 2 min Discover the link between these two color idioms — blue blood and silver spoon – and learn why an aristocrats blood is blue.
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Read Time: < 1 minute If someone tells you that today is a red letter day, they mean it’s a day of importance, such as a holiday or anniversary. But why “red letter?”
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Read Time: < 1 minute Today yellow journalism means irresponsible, exaggerated, lurid, and even slanderous reporting, a definition that hasn’t strayed far from the original meaning.
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Read Time: 2 min The word green didn’t take a twisting linguistic road. The English word for green is remarkably close to its original spelling and meaning.
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Read Time: 2 min Chuck Close is an American painter/artist and photographer who achieved fame through his massive-scale portraits. His quotes speak to his use of color but viewing one of his canvases up close tells a great deal about how he thinks about and uses color.
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Read Time: < 1 minute One of the most recognizable brand colors in the world is Owens Corning pink and this smart company uses the color pink in their logo, products & packaging.
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Read Time: 2 min Why use the color white to denote a lie that – while it is an untruth – is kinder than the truth? The answer is in the meaning of the word white.
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Read Time: 2 min It wasn’t until 5 years after the Continental Congress adopted our flag in 1777, that the meanings behind the colors of the American flag were revealed.
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Read Time: 3 min Think you know what the word blue means? The origin of the word blue didn’t mean the color blue at all. What it meant might surprise you.
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Read Time: 3 min From sophisticated elegance to evil incarnate, few colors conjure up such strong images as black.
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Read Time: 3 min From innocence to wisdom, the color white represents many things. The earliest origin of the word white itself, however, is shrouded in mystery.
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Read Time: 2 min The bright color is not just so you can find a pencil on your desk more easily! The yellow pencil meaning has a deeper history than you might expect.
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