Welcome to Whispering Color.
Where do I start?
Color seems to come naturally to me. That is, I don't always consciously think about what I am doing. Usually not until someone asks me about it.
I did talk about color in the Sun Moon Stars series, when considering the rainbow. I want to pull up those audios again. To listen. To think about it again in this regard. Because really, it is quite interesting to go back and listen to yourself again, compare that to what you might be thinking today.
There are many aspects to color that interest me. I did enjoy studying color in art school. I loved especially the color charts and the nature of how we might see it explained. I liked how one color might affect another and how we might learn to recognize that. But I have also always been amazed at it's impact on everyone as simply as that. A visual impact... how we come to have favorite colors, how color is mysteriously linked to mood and emotion, but most especially how it is different for everyone and therefore, there are no real rules for its use.
The first photo is my old paintbox from college. I recently pulled it out because I am painting again. My mind has been focused suddenly on the concept of palette. Which can both mean the set of colors one has to work with and the surface that hold them ready. I notice that I only use a few of these colors as is. Or use them all to mix the ones I want.
So. That Rainbow, a full spectrum of color, representing vision, and then I move to the idea of the personal rainbow. Redefining that natural order as a personal palette. The palette as not just a selection of colors, but the ones chosen as one's own tools to express one's vision. A color story.
What if I make my own color chart? Form my own color theory? Off to do some color storming then. I think my rainbow might have 9 colors. Nine is such a good number.