A Quote on Color
I subscribe to Robert Genn’s twice-weekly email newsletter for artists. I often do not have time to read it but today it had the title “True Colours” and I had to read.
He is a painter and talks a lot in this letter about paint, which is not my medium (though polymer clay is similar in how the colors mix). Dye is transparent and very different than opaque paint/clay.
It was an entirely new learning curve for me when I started dyeing. Light fuschia plus light turquoise equals medium hot cobalt blue? Wow. If I combined those colors in clay it would likely become a light soft purple.
But my favorite part of today’s letter was a quote from Chromophobia author David Batchelor:
“Colour reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it. To work with colour is to become aware of the insufficiency of language and theory–which is both
disturbing and pleasurable.”
December 1st, 2006 at 5:45 pm
I love color.. I used to tend toward blues and greens and the occasional purple, but since becoming an art quilter, I love EVERY color, muddy or bright. I don’t necessarily choose them to wear, but as tools in creating, I love exploring how that muddy brown with a hint of orange can really come into its own if I put it with just the right shade of green, or blue, or the occasional purple, and stitch over it with deep chocolatey brown for texture…