color chart history

I don't know about you; I love pantone books and the subject color theory and history:

The first color wheel has been attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk. As the disk spins, the colors blur together so rapidly that the human eye sees white. From there the organization of color has taken many forms, from tables and charts, to triangles and and wheels the history.


...an excellent concise article on the history of the color wheel via ColorLOVERs

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Familiar as Caravaggio.  Of course, chiaroscuro, begun in the Renaissance and perfected in the High Renaissance by Tinteretto, Veronese & Baglione (later by Rembrandt); however, Caravaggio's intense effects played a significant role in altering the familiar Mannerism.  His work marked the stylistic end of the Renaissance period and ushered in the modern era.  His dramatic manipulation of light, belief in working with human models, and his non-sentimental approach to religious art had a revolutionary flavor and he was much criticized for it.

His well known pugilistic tendencies are not in contrast with the intensity, depth and passion of his work.  He mesmerizes us with light and darkness.

Two of my very lucky friends are in Rome and today had the pleasure of seeing his collective works at the Scuderie.   I have had the luck of seeing only a few of his works in person - but had travelled far and wide to do so; these guys are getting the grand tour in one place! 


How I wish I was there...

More on Caravaggio
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Grisaille

beauty and elegance in the warm tones of grey

night color

photographer: Erum Khan

thinking warmer climes

we golden state people wank about the weather if it's off 5 degrees in either direction.


we're in the middle of Winter Wankfest 2009!



one good thing; big waves and the water feels HOT at 53. yee har!