by Naomi | Aug 6, 2021 | Colour Insights
Contemporary Art – Blue Indigo, navy, or cobalt – no matter what shade of blue it always inspires. Blue is the basis of so many of my contemporary artworks. Inspired by water, sky, oceans, and rivers. Let the blue sky meet the blue sea and all is blue for a...
by Naomi | Aug 6, 2021 | Colour Insights
Contemporary Art – Purple Contrasting purple or should I say violet which is it’s name as it appears in the colour spectrum. “Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor...
by Naomi | Aug 6, 2021 | Colour Insights
Contemporary Art – Black Black. I rarely use black in my artwork however I have found some exciting paintings when I black as the canvas gesso. Building the colour, stroke by stroke until the painting emerges. Black is so final, or unforgiving so I am very...
by Naomi | Aug 6, 2021 | Colour Insights
Grey is a colour to contrast “The color of truth is grey” Andre Gide, French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951 Grey is not a colour that I use often in my pallet, it usually has some other tones, whether that be green or blue, but pure...
by Naomi | Aug 1, 2021 | Colour Insights
Contemporary Art – White “If colours were people, it, white, would be admired, but it probably wouldn’t be popular. It is just a little too exclusive, autocratic and neurotic,” Kassia St. Clair, author of The Secret Lives of Colours 2016. The...
