Comments on: ColorJoy Dreaming

By: Diana Troldahl

Diana Troldahl — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:13:29 +0000

True Red left shoe, Cobalt Blue Right Shoe, and wildly colored mis-matched argyle socks.

By: Deborah Robson

Deborah Robson — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:29:36 +0000

One of my grandmothers was a Ruth, too. . . . She was a force to be reckoned with!

By: Mokihana

Mokihana — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:25:42 +0000

Here’s one of my favorite quotes:

“The duty of an artist is to continually astonish”

–Oscar Wilde

By: mac+

mac+ — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:29:47 +0000

Oh my…I see others waxing poetic (hiya D2!)…but what I think of is the Alice Walker quote I use in my signature- “We are the ones we have been waiting for”. Colorjoy exemplifies this to me - your projects and yarn really “grab” a person and pull them in. Don’t stop now, Lynnie!

By: d2

d2 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:58:48 +0000

I can almost hear the hammer ringing on the hot metal, see the colors as the metal cools from its original red hot red hot state; the hiss and the spray as the metal is tempered by a plunge into a water bucket, the noise of the bellows as it breathes on the fire, causing it to grow from sullen embers to flames worthy enough to re-heat the metal.

From an old poem:

‘Under the spreading chestnut tree, the village smithy stands,…

Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.

And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar,
And watch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.

By: Kris Elliott

Kris Elliott — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:41:17 +0000

Colorjoy - When we think about color, we need to think bigger than the crayon box, even the 120 color box. Color is both big and small. It is nuance. It is not just the pink of your sweater or the red of your hair, or the orange of the sunset. It is te gentleness with which you speak; the carefulness of your written words, even the spiciness oh your favorite food. Color is what makes things unique. Colorjoy, to me, means seeing the spectrum of “color” in all things and finding beauty, which leads to joy, in the small as well as the big things in life.

That is probably a little more than you wanted, but your question made me think - sometimes that is not a good thing!

Have a great day.

Kris

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:44:11 +0000

art as an everyday experience = finding beauty every day

By: jennifer

jennifer — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:08:15 +0000

colorjoy is the ability to see that one perfect color of a single rose, and also see multi-faceted jewel tones of a kaleidescope. you are able to combine them into a projects that is pleasing to look as well as functional. for example, your bags. its like looking into prism with all the different colors and patterns.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:46:50 +0000

I think of colorjoy as a sunset that starts at the pale yellow through deep purple spectrum. Or anything by Kaffe Fassett. I would also say the quilts Jane Brocket makes are ColorJoy (see http://yarnstorm.blogs.com/knitblog/quilts/index.html)

I think my older daughter would say the baby einstein Van Gogh is color joy.

By: Ewe-niss

Ewe-niss — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:39:46 +0000

Hello! Please don’t be disappointed by my music choice. It is fun, wild, colors blazing - not very artsy… circus music

(I am not a fan of animals being used for circuses, but the music makes me happy.)