And now we come to this new addition to my color library.
The author, Kassia St. Clair, has taken 75 shades, dyes and hues of color to tell a story about how color has changed the world. She has taken brown, way battles were fought, to white that gave protection against plague; Picasso's blue period to charcoal on cave walls--scarlet women to industrial pink--a thread through history.
As the pages show the different tints and shades of color, we learn how each hue creates
our moods and temperture; how we choose a color to wear, decorate with, speak about--
adventures abound in this book--I'm enjoying each page as I turn from color to color.
How do you use color in your daily life? Or your work in fiber?
Pat Sloan is taking this book to task--she is going through the colors to create a quilt with
her shoofly block. There is purpose! Makes for an interesting project and goal in mind--the hardest thing to do is achieve each tint, shade or hue in each color section--
I've always thought of white as the absent of color--boy, was I wrong!
White light is a combination of all colors in the color spectrum. It has all the colors of the rainbow. Combining primary colors of light like red, blue, and green creates secondary colors: yellow, cyan, and magenta.
And now, a whole new can of worms has been open for me to explore! Pliny Elder, 1 A.D-100A.D was the first on record of trying to make white color--never heard of him! But, now, I"m curious and tried to track down his recipe for white--here you have it!
Think I'll just buy my white already made! Although it would be fun to mix all the above colors to see if I can achieve that "white" which I know now is a COLOR!
How do you see "White"?
Purity, virtue, innocent, delicacy.
white calms, balances, purifies, brings clarity
cleaniness, elegance, simplicity, goodness--
bland, unfriendness, emptiness, coldness
Here is Mary O'Neill's thoughts on WHITE
White is a dove and the lily of the valley
and a puddle of milk spilled in an alley--
A ship's sail, a kite's tail, a wedding veil, Hailstones and Halibut bones and
some people's telephones.
The hottest and most blinding light is white.
and breath is white when you blow it out on a frosty night.
White is the shining absence of all color, then absence is white out of touch, out of sight--
White is marshmallow and vanilla ice cream
and the part you can't remmeber in a dream.
White is the sound of a light foot walking; white is a pair of whispers talking
White is the beautiful broken lace, of snowflakes falling on your face
You can smell white in a country room toward the end of May in the cherry bloom.
And so my reading and studying will continue into the world of color--
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