Exploring Color

exploring-color

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
—Wassily Kandinsky

Color touches the emotions. More than rigid rules and theories govern its use. But beautiful color is no happy accident —– in order to use color effectively, you must understand how it works.
—Nita Leland

I agree with Kandinsky and Leland. Color touches my emotions. As I’ve said, I’ve been playing with different materials and shapes and colors. For the most part I’m not saving anything. I have no desire to be an “artist.” I just want to explore, experiment, and experience. Wow! That’s more than enough.

Do you feel that way about anything?


 

This entry was posted in Life As a Shared Adventure. Bookmark the permalink.

10 Responses to Exploring Color

  1. Audra E says:

    Oh yes, sometimes I just sit down with my pastels and oil pastels and crayons and make sweeping circling curling waving patterns. But I wish I more often got to that something inside me that’s directing me. At least that’s how it feels. I know it’s there, but I can’t draw it, capture it. I keep trying, off and on.

  2. KB says:

    I feel the same way about color, and it comes out in my photography. I love deep rich colors that make me feel warm and happy.

    • Jean says:

      Yes, you do that so well! And on a regular basis. Those pictures of R, especially, in yesterday’s post blew me away. He looks so serious and dignified now, in addition to being beautiful. The first picture of the duo is so well posed — clearly taken by a professional.

  3. Rummuser says:

    No. Cooking does not do that except when under challenging circumstances when one has to cook with whatever is available and not ask for ingredients.

    Books on philosophy, particularly by J Krishnamurthy and Ramesh Balsekar; and observation of humans by writers like Malcolm Gladwell do that. Nassim Taleb also comes to mind for the latter.

  4. Cathy in NZ says:

    I just bought a couple packets of coloured pens…which I’m hoping to play with sometime soon!

    I also paint with wool and silk dyes and I have a whole lot of silk threads that need new colours…again “real soon”

    And I love splashing art paints around…glueing coloured things together and so on…

Comments are closed.