Every time my art is brought in discussions I hear the same phrase from friends and colleagues: “You should become a painter!” “You should be selling your art !” Meaning that painting should be my primary source of income. The one that would bring “food on the table” and pay the bills of the precious lighting power company. I take…
I was watching tv the other day. Zapping channels, I ended up watching a short of a documentary- one typical day in the centre of my city, Athens-Greece. Like someone had put a camera and was recording people crossing the streets, noisy buses passing up and down and old style burger-shops spread around the square. Watching with no interest as…
“This is not me.” This sentence is jumping up and down in my head like a three-year-old on a trampoline! You know, this moment of silence when you look yourself in the elevator’s mirror, (only for a two-floor distance), and you think: “Oh my God! This is not me!” What is the mismatch with my picture? Is it the navy-blue…
My boy is now three years old. Lately, he banned me from calling him “my baby” since “ he is not a baby any more“. Many changes have occurred at this stage of development. I have to admit that “he is not a baby any more” indeed ! I have sworn that I will respect, his personality and his will,…
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue), because it fully reflects and scatters all the visible wavelengths of light. White was also one of the first colours used in art. The Lascaux Cave in France contains drawings of bulls and other animals drawn by paleolithic artists between 18,000 and…
A story about colour origination would be unfinished if I had left black outside. How do you make the colour black? It depends. If you’re an artist and you want to create a dark blackish hue, you have to mix amounts of all primary colours (red, yellow and blue) in order to create a very dark tending to black…
Green is the colour that you get if you combine two of the three basic colours. Blue and yellow. But the fact that you can derive it from two basic colours does not mean that it has no story to tell. Since the greens that came from mixing yellow and blue usually turned brown after some time, ancient people have…
There are some things that happen to us and you do not know how you got into them. Then you feel so connected with the subject that occupies your attention to this level that almost everything you think…
I always wanted to do a research and find out how the pigments of the colours were made through history. I am sharing here this research and after covering the Red colour in the previous post here is the most interesting things I have found out about the origination of “blue colours”. Resources for the post were mainly Wikipedia, ColourLex.com,…
I m so fond of color – I absolutely love mixing colours, getting my hands dirty and making new colour hues as I have imagined. Making a research to find how colors are made and what is the natural ingredients they have been used since antiquity, was something I wanted to do for a long time. I thought it would…
