Tuesday 24 January 2012

minded

dipping my hands in blue the other day


reminded me of a place i haven't been in a while



and of another i've been in more recently


that has a similar feel at times
blue has magic and grace

where she muses on the latter

8 comments:

  1. Yes I seem to find grace when I look into the beauty of blue. These are soothing images to behold. Peace, Mary Helen Fernandez stewart

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  2. although green is my favourite color: i love seablue!:)

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    1. it's hard to choose a favourite colour
      or a favorite flower
      or
      tree
      or child

      much easier to pick the ones that make me edgy - like yellow or screaming pink...

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  3. wow. those hues are wonderful. both in the seascapes and your work.

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  4. Yes, the soft, turqoisey blue is one of my favorite colors; yet, I don't really have much of that color in my house . . . except for in that guest bedroom. I especially love it when paired with brown, rust, or orange.

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  5. Can turquoise colours be created by natural dyes? I've never been quite able to reach that incredible hue......
    perhaps via copper mordanting? Hhhmm, must get my dyepot out and see.......
    ~Raven

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    1. you'll find that the colours released by indigo using the Michel Garcia methods are rather more variable than those using fiercer reductive agents. fabrics will respond differently according to their make-up. i've seen deep blues and turquoise come out of the same dye pot on different cloth...Indigofera australis [one of the thirty species of indigo endemic to Australia] consistently produces turquoise - woad on the other hand tends toward sky blue

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  6. ps no copper mordants were used

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