Color is power which directly influences the soul.Wassily KandinskyWith the ongoing global pandemic, I feel at times, that I have embarked on a voyage into the deep and foreboding unknown. I imagine that many of you share similar emotions. What lies ahead for all of...
I never met a color I didn’t like.Dale ChihulyWhy do fluorescent colors arrest my attention? I think it is because they are flamboyant, bodacious, conspicuous, vibrant and brilliant. “Look at me, look at me!” they beckon and I do. Yet I use them sparingly in my...
A colorful world is always a synonym for paradise. A grey or monocolored world is always a synonym for purgatory or hell…The diversity of color brings paradise.Friedensreich HundertwasserAre paintings in monochromes created because of a need to explore the subtle...
This has just been published in the Arizona Foothills titled: “Trendsetter to Know” and I thought I would share both the interviewer’s questions and my responses with you: Arizona Foothills Trendsetter to Know: Ellen Palestrant Name: Ellen Palestrant...
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite –that particular peach is but a detail.Pablo PicassoThis blog is a short exploration of three fairly similar colors named after fruits: apricot, peach and nectarine. Hence the title.Is apricot...
To those who are awake, there is one ordered universe, whereas in sleep each person turns away from this world to one of his own.Heraclitus, PhilosopherDreams feed us, and we feed our dreams. They are of us. Some are visual, some verbal. Some are vague, endoceptual...
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