Connecting with Color
Our dining room table faces northeast. At this time of year, coupled with my propensity for rising early, we are frequently treated to magnificent sunrises during breakfast. Some are brilliant in color. Others are are more subtle. This morning’s was the later. So, what was I thinking as I took it in? Now that would be a perfect gradation of colors for a dying session. Welcome to my mind and how everything seems to link back to art. 🙂
The truth is I have learned so much from studying the world around me. It is amazing how many greens can be found amongst the leaves of a single tree or garden.
Take a close look at the greens in our garden. Some border on yellow. I confess I am partial to pops of chartreuse in my artwork. At the other end of the spectrum is a deep forest green, nearly, but not quite black. This is one of the reasons a mantra of mine is, why use one green (or other color of your choosing) when many will do.
Connecting with Line
Have you ever stared with fascination as colors merge, expand and swirl behind your eyeballs? If you have followed my blog for any length of time you know I am practitioner of yoga. Each session ends with savasana. It is a resting pose, on your back with eyes closed. Since one of the goals is to empty your mind, I attempt to do this by studying the colors I see behind my eyeballs. I have been contemplating how to quilt Sunrise Over the Atlantic. My usual free motion motifs weren’t calling to me. I figured I would try doodling. But then, BAM! I got the answer during savasana just before I was going to head into my studio.
Welcome to my mind. Perhaps, this might be stated welcome to my muse. Out of the blue, or in this case the yellows and oranges of a sunrise behind my eyeballs, the answer came. I could sense very fine horizontal lines across the colors. I’ve never noticed this phenomena before. I knew it was the solution I had been searching for.
I am linking up with Nina Marie’s Off the Wall Fridays.
