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All Entries in the "Color" Category
vintage alphabet
I thought you might enjoy this image of vintage letters that I will be listing on Etsy soon. They are a hard, thick plastic, each side wears a different color, and they stand almost two inches high. Their bright, bold, colorful cheeriness made me smile - kid style - yeah, that kind of smile.
Vintage Alphabet Circa 1946
eugenia pardue: paint as a sculptural medium
My eyes found a quiet place to rest this morning - a place where thinking stops and serenity begins; where the adage ‘less is more’ comes alive; where meditation is effortless and my mind is at peace. Eugenia Pardue’s white-on-white paintings - part painting, part sculpture - are my guides today as I continue on my quest for calm and balance.
Rendevous, acrylic on panel, 48″ x 48″
Pachelbel, acrylic on panel, four 24 x 24 panels
Working all in white also enables me to concentrate the viewer’s visceral response on the paintings’ surfaces, which reach out from the picture plane and engage the senses.
Tree of Life, acrylic on panel, 48″ x 48″
In my studio I use tools to braid, mold, and weave paint into shapes that are sometimes soft and graceful, sometimes spiky and dynamic. After the shapes are created and positioned, I envelop them in sheets of acrylic paint, until their contours rise like islands from a glassy-smooth sea.
Mystical Secrets, acrylic on panel, 48″ x 48″
In our increasingly detached digital age, I aim to bring viewers back into touch with the opulent physicality of art, and to remind them of the beauty within themselves.
Pardue suggests that her work is best viewed in person and I have no doubt that she is correct. To get a sense of the scale of the paintings, look here and these images showcase the textures. Read more about the artist at Saatchi Online.
purple puffball
today’s flickr find:
Love this image - and don’t miss cheesekid’s Australian Spotted Jellyfish on Flickr - what’s not to love?
scarlet cup
Amigos de la micologia Joseba Castillo on Flickr
Sarcoscypha coccinea, or Scarlet Cup Fungus…loving this!
tracy chapman: our bright future
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman’s new website, Tracy Chapman, Our Bright Future is set up like a virtual animated coloring book, complete with jumping fish, moving clouds and flying kites.
Home page uncolored
Here’s the beginning of my coloring effort on Chapman’s homepage
The upper right corner of each page boasts a ‘paintbrush’ and ‘paints’, and you can color every page of the site while you listen to her sing.
The paint palette
I’ve been a fan for many years, but if the music doesn’t lure you in, the interactive coloring book will. Beautifully done. Go on, color your world.
nikon 2008 small world competition winners
Michael Stringer, Marine Diatoms
Last October we visited the gallery pages of Nikon’s Small World Competition. Time to visit the gallery again, now that the 2008 photomicrography winners were announced. Michael Stringer took first place with this image of marine diatoms. The image looks like painterly brush strokes or softly striped feathers.
From the website:
This image was one of a series Mr. Stringer created to illustrate a talk to a camera club on “Photography through the microscope.” His objective was to display diatoms in a modern way using super contrast and careful application of color. Rather than showing all the details, or warts and wrinkles as Mr. Stringer likes to call them, he dressed up the diatoms by manipulating the image and creating this beautiful photomicrograph.
Dr. Rachel Fink grabbed an Honorable Mention for this picture of newly fertilized killifish embryos. My personal favorite.
rusty palettes
I never get tired of rust - probably should, but I don’t. Colour Lovers indulges my weakness once more by covering the colors of corrosion.
a berry good day
today’s flickr find:
Hope your holiday weekend is as sweet and juicy as these berries!
