WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2021 COLORS GALORE

  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2021 COLORS GALORE

Okay, look at this list:

"Purple Rain," Prince

"Blackbird," The Beatles

"Tangled Up in Blue," Bob Dylan

"Back in Black," AC/DC

"Mellow Yellow," Donovan

"Behind Blue Eyes," The Who

"Paint It Black," The Rolling Stones

"Lady in Red," Chris de Burgh

"Almost Blue," Elvis Costello

"White Rabbit," Jefferson Airplane

"Purple Haze," Jimi Hendrix

"Mr. Blue Sky," Electric Light Orchestra

"White Wedding," Billy Idol

"Brown Eyed Girl," Van Morrison

"A Whiter Shade of Pale," Procol Harum

"Blue Velvet," Bobby Vinton

"Big Yellow Taxi," Joni Mitchell

"Pale Blue Eyes," The Velvet Underground

"Little Red Corvette," Prince

"Fields of Gold," Sting

"Red Rain," Peter Gabriel

"Black Magic Woman," Santana

"Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road," Elton John

"Band of Gold," Freda Payne

(Okay, some of these I know well but not all).

Now look at this list:

Turquoise blue

Powder blue

 Sky Blue

Electric Blue

Air Force

Baby Blue

Tiffany

Steel Blue

Carolina Blue

Turkish Blue

Pigeon Blue

Maya Blue

Teal Blue

Independence Blue

Cornflower Blue

Olympic Blue

Sapphire Blue

Azure Blue

Egyptian Blue

Yale Blue

Navy Blue

Prussian Blue

Space Blue

Royal Blue

(and more)

(And, of course, the list could have been done with any of the colors - green has so many hues - especially in nature and in spring).

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And, okay - so there are oodles of songs with colors in the titles and oodles of tints and tones and hues of all the colors.  Yep.  And, what again is your point Karen?

I’ve been around artists recently (like at the Bent Tree Art Gallery in Wimberley Texas).  I worked with my friend Kathleen on a project where she mixed a base color with red and brown to get an appropriate hue.  And, she mixed it about four times until we agreed on a proper tint.

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I think I grew up with the standard eight box of Crayolas.  Red, Yellow, Green, Brown, Blue, Black, White, and Purple. I have a box of 72 colored pencils.  Amazing - 72 varieties of colored pencils!!!  WOW!!  I have been coloring some Halloween and Thanksgiving pages off the internet.  Do you know how many shades of brown you can use on a turkey or a cornucopia? Even as I write, I picture the brown-black of skin on the outside of a done turkey.  Roasted to perfection, with the aroma filling the room.  Can just thinking of such a color awaken my olfactory senses (smell)?, can I taste the moist turkey meat (don’t let it dry out friends), is Friendsgiving and Thanksgiving as much about long-beloved colors, aromas, and tastes in our brains?

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There is a HUGE amount of variety in the world.  This source says about 10 million colors!!!

“There are approximately 10,000,000 (10 million) colors in the world.

Careful measurements of our visual system’s best performance have been made by psychophysicists (people who study human responses, like seeing color, to things in the world, like light). They have shown that we can see about 1000 levels of light-dark, 100 levels of red-green, and 100 levels of yellow-blue for a single viewing condition in a laboratory. This means that the total number of colors we can see is about 1000 x 100 x 100 = 10,000,000 (10 million). A computer displays about 16.8 million colors to create full-color pictures, really more than necessary for most situations. However, the answer is not quite so simple. What color looks like is greatly affected by the viewing conditions.”

How about that concept with people - millions (really billions) of people in the world - all of whom are unique.  YOU are unique.  You are more than the 72 colored pencils in my box.  You are more than the tantalizing aromas from a kitchen on Thanksgiving.  You are more than you can imagine.  YOU are unique.

In the book “The Shack”, God (pictured as a large black lady) says about every person “I’m terribly fond of you”.  God is terribly fond of each of us - each of us unique people.  Even the good and the bad.  Judeo-Christians have the verse “Made in the image and likeness of God”.  That hopeless dude on the street corner is in the image and likeness of God!!!  That obnoxious neighbor is in the image and likeness of God, and that dear, dear friend is definitely in the image and likeness of God!!

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And, you, my readers - are also very special, and very fond in God’s eyes, and very unique and wonderful in my eyes!!!  LOVE DOES WIN!!!!

Karen