SleepyOwl
Colors: Sunbeam bread wrapper.
Illustration by Ellen Segner reproduced (with some blurring) for the Color Theory group (and Dadada group).... I do not NOT like red and yellow together but nevertheless I am transfixed by this image. Wonder why? Hmmm. Do I dislike the colors because they are associated with this white bread? ( I never buy/eat white bread; I photographed this wrapper art from a friend's loaf. ) No, I never liked the combo of yellow and red. I wonder if a color properties analyis would help me understand my aversion to this combo. And if so, is there a way to do this?
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An excerpt from the wrapper:
"In the early 1940s, Quality Bakers of America, a cooperative of independent bakers, commissioned artist Ellen Segner to create an image of a little girl for a trademark that could be used by its member bakeries.... Little Miss Sunbeam made her debut in the fall of 1942, appearing on packaging in the Philadelphia area."
An additional note:
I just did a search for Ellen Segner and learned that she was noted for her pin-up and glamour illustrations and for her illustrations for the Dick and Jane series of reading books! I learned to read using those books! It's kind of mind boggling when I stop to think about all the "unknown" artists that have influenced my life in subtle ways!
Colors: Sunbeam bread wrapper.
Illustration by Ellen Segner reproduced (with some blurring) for the Color Theory group (and Dadada group).... I do not NOT like red and yellow together but nevertheless I am transfixed by this image. Wonder why? Hmmm. Do I dislike the colors because they are associated with this white bread? ( I never buy/eat white bread; I photographed this wrapper art from a friend's loaf. ) No, I never liked the combo of yellow and red. I wonder if a color properties analyis would help me understand my aversion to this combo. And if so, is there a way to do this?
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An excerpt from the wrapper:
"In the early 1940s, Quality Bakers of America, a cooperative of independent bakers, commissioned artist Ellen Segner to create an image of a little girl for a trademark that could be used by its member bakeries.... Little Miss Sunbeam made her debut in the fall of 1942, appearing on packaging in the Philadelphia area."
An additional note:
I just did a search for Ellen Segner and learned that she was noted for her pin-up and glamour illustrations and for her illustrations for the Dick and Jane series of reading books! I learned to read using those books! It's kind of mind boggling when I stop to think about all the "unknown" artists that have influenced my life in subtle ways!