Paint my World
“Life is a painting, and you are the artist. You have on your palette all the colors in the spectrum - the same ones available to Michaelangelo and DaVinci.” – Paul J. Meyer (American motivational speaker).
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 20th of June is "paint", which is about the paint itself and not a painting. A few months ago I went to a French brocante (second hand and vintage) market in the country and I came home with a wonderful box of 1930s Art Deco "Couleurs sans Danger" (colours free from poison) watercolour paints. The box, made by Bourgeois Aine Art Supplies in Paris, is almost entirely complete, with embossed blocks of watercolour pigments in vivid colours encased in gold housings, set in a canary yellow surround. The set includes fourteen colour blocks, three paint bushes of different thicknesses and two porcelain mixers. I was recently given a rather lovely blue hand painted resin Nostalgia Shoe which features red and gold accents, which matched some of the watercolour pigment blocks perfectly, so I thought for this week’s theme, I would pose myself appearing to paint the slipper with colours from the Art Deco "Couleurs sans Danger" watercolour set. I hope you like my choice of this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
The Frenchman Joseph Bourgeois Aine (born 1830) opened a shop for art supplies in Paris in 1867, which featured a range of specially designed paintboxes. Before that, Bourgeois Aine had invented a process for the production of alizarin lacquer and produced the first non-toxic paints, which were especially suitable for children's paintboxes. His commitment also extended to the school sector, whereby the products were closely linked and advertised with traditional colour theory (basic colours, mixing diagrams, colour harmony). In 1965 there was a merger with the competitor to Lefranc & Bourgeois, which still exist today.
Paint my World
“Life is a painting, and you are the artist. You have on your palette all the colors in the spectrum - the same ones available to Michaelangelo and DaVinci.” – Paul J. Meyer (American motivational speaker).
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 20th of June is "paint", which is about the paint itself and not a painting. A few months ago I went to a French brocante (second hand and vintage) market in the country and I came home with a wonderful box of 1930s Art Deco "Couleurs sans Danger" (colours free from poison) watercolour paints. The box, made by Bourgeois Aine Art Supplies in Paris, is almost entirely complete, with embossed blocks of watercolour pigments in vivid colours encased in gold housings, set in a canary yellow surround. The set includes fourteen colour blocks, three paint bushes of different thicknesses and two porcelain mixers. I was recently given a rather lovely blue hand painted resin Nostalgia Shoe which features red and gold accents, which matched some of the watercolour pigment blocks perfectly, so I thought for this week’s theme, I would pose myself appearing to paint the slipper with colours from the Art Deco "Couleurs sans Danger" watercolour set. I hope you like my choice of this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
The Frenchman Joseph Bourgeois Aine (born 1830) opened a shop for art supplies in Paris in 1867, which featured a range of specially designed paintboxes. Before that, Bourgeois Aine had invented a process for the production of alizarin lacquer and produced the first non-toxic paints, which were especially suitable for children's paintboxes. His commitment also extended to the school sector, whereby the products were closely linked and advertised with traditional colour theory (basic colours, mixing diagrams, colour harmony). In 1965 there was a merger with the competitor to Lefranc & Bourgeois, which still exist today.