colors

Naming Colors

| Flower Roberts

I found this book on a bench in an art museum: The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St.Clair.

I have always felt that my color vocabulary was lacking. This little treasure should help.

The side of the book looks like a rainbow. Each color section has various hues listed.

The rainbow’s edge

Who knew there were so many purples. Each one has several pages of history and descriptions in how the hue was made.

Purples

I will be ready to better describe my next red flower, now that Kassia has provided the accurate term for it.

Ready for reds.

I will post on rocks in the art museum next.

FLOW

Cheater, Cheater, Color Reader

| Flower Roberts

It happened again this morning.  A new daylily bloomed with an unusual color.

Its name is South Seas, but that color…

South Seas daylily

Time to pull out the cheat sheets.

I used to use my colored pencil collection, but this got rather cumbersome…

carrying around a box of pencils…holding each up to the flower…

Now, I whip out my color charts from the internet.

Hot Chocolate calla

I happen to know that by the time it gets through my printer and the photos and the internet,

there is bound to be some change in tint, tone and hue.

I know someone is going to tell me there is a APP for that.  There is an APP for everything.

I can only use “lipstick” so many times (twice) before it gets redundant.

So now you know. The FLOWER is a cheater.  (Blushing scarlet.)

I’d like to think of myself as a color-reader over-achiever.

FLOW

P.S.  South Seas looks candy with hints of blush and a honey throat. (i.e It’s red and yellow. )