Color Grabs My Attention

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For the first many years (how many??) of my art career, I only worked in pencil, with occasional forays into colored pencil. The detail, the precision, the accuracy, the requirement of strong contrast and composition—all of these things held my attention. Plus, pencils are easy to transport, use, clean up—simple minimal equipment is all that is required.

Despite my devotion to the humble pencil, I am a self-professing color junkie. Here are a few examples of colors in Three Rivers that recently have grabbed my attention.

Someone’s yard has the most brilliant Japanese maple around.
Those bright trees across the river held on until the last rain.
The enormous flowering pear is starting to color up, while mine at the studio has dropped all its leaves now.

The patterns of leaves against the wet asphalt added to the intrigue. (Easily amused, easily entertained)

I went through my yarn scraps and arranged these in the order that pleases me for a multi-colored scarf— ’twill be a gift for a friend.
Sage is blooming in this fantastic blue-violet color beneath the flowering pear at my studio, with its brilliant leaves now all on the ground.
See that piece of dried mural paint? It is a green which I used to think looked fake. When I dropped it on the ground, I was astonished to see that it is almost the identical color as the new weeds now sprouting, at least when they are in sunlight.

SIMPLY HOME

This might be the painting in the show of which I am the proudest . . . yes, I know that “pride goeth before a fall”. . . I hope this painting falls into the right hands!

ENTERING WHITE CHIEF, 12×16″, $387

*The show hangs until December 29 at CACHE in Exeter. Their hours are Friday 1:30-4, Saturday 10-4, Sunday noon-4. It includes about 50 paintings, 3 original pencil drawings, calendars, cards, coloring books, The Cabins of Wilsonia books, and a few pencil reproduction prints.

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5 Comments

  1. Just thinking, you could crochet a few small flowers/roses and place them randomly on the scarf, or on the ends. More work, more fuss for you but might be fun. Maybe? or Maybe not?? LOL!!!

    • Melissa, it will be an infinity scarf, so there will be no end!

  2. Hi Jana,
    I also like the different colored yarns for your friend’s scarf! Great idea and I am sure it will look fabulous!!!

  3. I love the yarn colors–they almost look like those “temperature” afghans that people do where each color represents a temperature block. 10-20 is one color, then 21-30 is the next color, etc. I thought about doing one like that, but it seemed too complicated and too much money for all that yarn! I would rather use up what I have for Project Linus afghans.

    • It was fun to arrange the yarn in a pleasing manner, and very satisfying to be able to use up scraps!

What do you think?