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Posted by Jai Narayan on August 13, 2004, at 10:38:21
Dear kind sir,
If I could have moment of your time? I am still curious if you have a favorite color palette for your paintings.ps (my spelling is so bad ((I wanted to say atrocious but feared that with my creative spelling I would be too far off and I'd lose the gist of the thing...blaaa, blaaa, blaaa I am way to wordy today)) that I have to stop and look words up...the problem with that is, if I don't know how to spell the word then I can't find the correct spelling.)
so all I really wanted to ask was about the color (I had to look up the word palette....I spelled it wrong in another post and maybe that's why you didn't address the question).
pps (I have to admit I have a hangover....Margaritas....yeks!
***bless me father for I have sinned it's been 40 years since my last confession...
I imbibed 2 Margaritas and have a hangover...
please go light on me as my knees are in rough shape and I'm old. A hair-shirt might be okay.The only thing bad about middle age is one grows out of it.
ppss (hang..over? what a funny expression.)
Posted by Atticus on August 13, 2004, at 10:57:11
In reply to a question for mr. Atticus, posted by Jai Narayan on August 13, 2004, at 10:38:21
Fare thee well, Empress Jai.
I lean toward a wide range of purples and blues as my dominant palette, cool colors, accented with splashes and bolts of hot colors such as reds, oranges, and, in extreme moderation, yellows. I'm trying to widen my range, as I'm not unaware of the irony of someone with major depressive disorder going through a seemingly perpetual "blue period." Something about the moodiness of the purple/blue tones really attracts me. I almost always use a range of blues and purples for skin tones when painting people. It gives them this peculiar drowned look. Hmmm. I can see I've gone on a bit again. That's why I stick to poems. If I wrote straight prose, I'd never finish a single story, I suspect; I get off-task too easily. It's even worse when I talk, believe it or not. My tongue can't seem to walk in a straight line. :) That rogue, Atticus of Atlantis, who frequently asks, "What was the question again?"
Posted by Jai Narayan on August 13, 2004, at 16:00:19
In reply to Re: a question for mr. Atticus » Jai Narayan, posted by Atticus on August 13, 2004, at 10:57:11
Interesting about the color blue. I have decided to pretty much wear blue. Especially the indigo, perwinkle hues. They are the color of my eyes. I also wear a blue magician crystal at my throat. It's a man made crystal. If you are interested in seeing it I can give you the website address.
I love to paint with thalo blue, cerulean blue, naples yellow, yellow ochre, rose madder, raw umber, and sienna.
I painted a diptych: one side had the back of a woman standing and her head turned to the side. she was nude.
I saw all these colors in her skin and as the light changed so did the colors. I held to my palette and she ended up looking slightly bruised but (not butt) luscious too. The other canvas was the same background as behind the woman absent the woman. The challange with this is to keep the viewer interested in both canvases looking from one to the other in equal measure. I painted all of the brush strokes from left to right in three colors. Top 1/3rd was a changing color of muted cobalt blue . There is an inch of hot pink line. the bottom 3/4ths was a muted thalo blue.I paint what I see. I have always been in awe of people who can paint from their imagination.
Okay I must know are you left or right handed?
Jai Narayan the artist who paints her angst
Posted by Atticus on August 13, 2004, at 18:43:27
In reply to Re: a question for mr. Atticus, posted by Jai Narayan on August 13, 2004, at 16:00:19
Now the right-handed versus left-handed question is extremely interesting to me, and actually something I've thought about a lot, since I don't really know for sure. I write and draw with my right hand, but hold pens and brushes with the "hook" of a lefty. I'm utterly right-brained -- hopeless at math, science, or linear reasoning. I have memories, when I was very young, of being "trained" by my mother and Na to use my right hand to scribble and then draw -- the "correct" hand. So I may well be a lefty who was conditioned to be a righty; I'm just not entirely sure. But everyone who's ever seen me writing something by hand is always struck by the left-handed-style curl in my wrist and fingers. They never could get me to hold a pencil or pen in my right hand the conventional way. :) Atticus
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