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This is a napkin I took from a bridal shower, I have kept it forever, I loved the pattern, the photo does not due justice to the vibrancy of the colors, they are really bright, I wish I could find this print in fabric, I would love to use this for upholstery.

This is another textile, it is a dress I have had for years, I love it, its very frilly, and girl, when I wear it for some reason I want to talk in a southern accent, like Blanche Dubois, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Here is a close up of the pattern of the carpet.

This is a rug in my parents living room, it is fairly limited in color as well, they are very few large color fields in the pattern, so it generally blends into tones of gold and cream, but mostly reads as blue.

My parents house is decorated in Early American style, that includes lots of wall paper, this is in there entry way, I used to hate it when I was a kid, now I kind of like it, its homey and comforting. It is apparently based on a genuine early American wall paper pattern in Boston, or so my mom told me. The same blues, rusts, and gold are repeated throughout the design I counted only 5 colors in the paper but the change in size of the color fields make it appear to be far more colorful than it is.

Cecilia Britwell Is another textile designer who’s work I admire, she is most famous for her collaboration with the brilliant late British designer Ossie Clark.

limtied color

Limited color in textiles is a natural for this post, I love printed textiles and designers who use prints, and one of my favorites is a British designer Zandra Rhodes. She began as an art student in the early 60’s and switched to textiles and latter became a designer. I love her work; her patterns are not only rich in color but also symbolism and context.

This picture was taken in overcast out-door lighting, the color relationship I noticed most strongly with my viewfinder did not show up in the photograph very well. The different colors of orange are self- explanatory, they ranged from medium tints to deep rusty browns. However the relationship that I found most interesting ( the one that is sadly lacking in the photo ) is a visual sensation that occurred around the small, pale orange pumpkins in the fore-ground. They are placed in front black flower pots, and in this position they seemed to have a pale blue ring surrounding them. I wish I could have captured this in the picture, however I doubt any camera could capture this optical phenomena.

 This photo was taken in bright noon sunlight. It is a Dodge Viper, in candy-apple red, classic mid-life crisis transportation. The color is industrial paint derived; it split into two distinct colors under the direct sunlight. The first, is what I think is the show room red, bright, red blue, a classic primary. The other is a very pure magenta, it makes very distinct highlights on the red paint and I found it very beautiful. This

This image was taken in a relatively dark indoor space, I was working on the computer and I  noticed the lights glowing under the paper I had just printed, the diffusion of the orange and green lights under the white paper was very beautiful so I grabbed my camera and took this picture. The white paper appeared a pale stone grey in the dim light. The single tone lights split into more subtle shades under the paper filter, the green made two prominent shades, one a pale yellow green the other slashes of a green screen with the addition of 2 or 3 parts tint. The orange light had a center of yellow orange spreading into medium orange and ending in tips of almost cadmium red.

Color relationships in the real world

This image was taken outdoors, in late afternoon sunlight; the Indian corn was in a shaded overhanging section of the roof. The colors range from, pale creamy yellow to deep almost metallic egg-plant brown; the kernels also display a range of medium browns and burnt sienna’s the kernels are self- contained neutrals that when placed next to one another make for an extremely colorful object.

Me trying to study math, my poor best bud Kenny is doing his best to help, but it was hopeless

Am I a color hypocrite

Am I a color hypocrite?

  In thinking about color in my life and world, I realized that I have a specific set of my own color rules that I began to notice. Firstly in my clothing, I don’t ware much color on my person, my wardrobe consists of mostly neutral tones, lots of black, navy, charcoal, brown and olive. Color in my clothing is never a random thing, never just thrown on or nonchalant. Combinations must be carefully considered, what colors will work well together? Do I mix neutrals with my color pieces? Even the color in my clothing tends to be somewhat muted, the hues tend to be rich rather than bright, with a few exceptions, wine, pine-green, cobalt and burnt orange. This color conservatism in my wardrobe is the polar opposite of the color found in my living space. Every room in my apartment is a different, generally very bright color, an eggplant living room, sunshine yellow kitchen with red dining table and electric green breakfront. Why is color such a good thing in my personal living space but not on my person?

 Me at Halloween, Even at then I'm wearing black!

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Color in the world is generally quite random; we live among a chaos of haphazard colors, placed without relation to what surrounds them. Signs advertising products from fast food to movies blast us surround us, constantly bombarding us with their discordant hues. Golden arches peak above the horizon, next to brown and pink doughnut billboards. When I come across an instance of color organization it arrests my attention, no matter what the product, a systemic display of color will seize my attention. Some instances of this occurrence I noticed in thinking about this blog entry are.     Yankee Candles, I bought the sent of the month, Autumn Leaves,

I immediately noticed the organized color arrangement of the candles, I am a sucker for this type of display

I have gotten to post some of my favorate things, cake, half-naked carnival bacchanal, psychedelic Japanese video games, and crayons. But I really love zombies too, and try as I might I just could not find a  pic of a nice coloful zombie, so I settled for Killer Klowns From Outterspace, Enjoy !!

I hated the 64 pack kids in school, I was so jealous ! But I whined enough and eventually got a nice big box of my own!! It was color mastery at my finger-tips, I colored everything, even the wall-paper, it was not to my liking, a bit of trouble with the folks for that one, for some reason they did not appricate my red and purple butteflies just as the deal closed to sell the house we were living in, cretins.

Carnival in Rio has no room for black and white, but just about anything else is ok!