COLOUR WARRIORS & HOW COLOUR IMPACTS OUR WORLD OUTRAGEOUS ORANGE – PART 2 As we move through the radiant history of orange, the 18th and 19th centuries presented some juicy new orange pigments that played a pivitol role in radiating the vibrancy of painting throughout Europe. Chemists would offer new colours, brighter than ever before. […]
COLOUR WARRIORS & HOW COLOUR IMPACTS OUR WORLD OUTRAGEOUS ORANGE – PART 1 Vibrant orange has never been a wallflower in the colour spectrum. Always demanding attention, it’s outrageous behaviour has got itself to the front of the line on many an occasion. As a colour it is an exceptional actor, a shape shifter that goes […]
COLOUR WARRIORS & HOW COLOUR IMPACTS OUR WORLD This blog focuses on one of my great passions …colour. I will bring you tall tales and tid bits about the origins and uses of colour and how it impacts our world. Colour has held many great powers throughout the ages. It plays many a leading role throughout […]
COLOUR WARRIORS & HOW COLOUR IMPACTS OUR WORLD 2022 COLOUR OF THE YEAR – SPECIAL EDITION PREDICTIONS & REFLECTIONS Every year, the colour gurus, Pantone, put out their ‘colour of the year’. The company has become a global authority in colour. The Pantone Matching System (PMS), provides a standard of colour sets used in a variety […]
VIVIANITE BLUE – A COLOUR & CULTURE SPECIAL GUEST BLOGGER! Super excited to bring you this blog article created by Artist and NW Coast Native Pigment & Paint Technology Specialist, Melonie Ancheta. She found me by through the Colour Warriors blog. Proof that all this blogging works, I am privileged to bring you her expertise on an […]
CLASSIC BLUE – SPECIAL 2020 EDITION Just when I thought I’d wrapped up the adventures of blue, global colour influencers – Pantone went and made it the colour of the year! So I thought we should address why this colour has made it to top billing for 2020. Colour, like art, is always a great […]
COLOUR WARRIORS & HOW COLOUR IMPACTS OUR WORLD BLAZING YELLOW – PART 4 Welcome to the final part of Blazing Yellow. Discover what the ‘modern yellows’ have to offer, and how some artists use fluorescent yellow to stand out. Understand why yellow doesn’t always mean sunshine and rainbows to all cultures. _________________ Lemon Yellow The pigment […]
COLOUR WARRIORS & HOW COLOUR IMPACTS OUR WORLD BLAZING YELLOW – PART 3 Join me down the golden pathway in PART 3 of Blazing Yellow. In this edition you’ll discover the dark side of Chrome Yellow, the lure of Cadmiums and why your eyes just won’t let you ignore that golden hue. _________________ Chrome Yellow – It’s […]
COLOUR WARRIORS & HOW COLOUR IMPACTS OUR WORLD BLAZING YELLOW – PART 2 Continue our travels down the yellow brick road with PART 2 of Blazing Yellow. This time we uncover the lost yellow of the Renaissance and learn about the poisonous hue used by Renior. We travel to India to save some very skinny cows […]
COLOUR WARRIORS & HOW COLOUR IMPACTS OUR WORLD BLAZING YELLOW – PART 1 Warm and sunny thoughts are visualised when we think of the colour yellow.The colour yellow is associated with the earth’s most valuable energy provider, the sun. In doing so it has been worshiped as God in many cultures. In Greek mythology, the sun-god […]
