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This tree, illumitared by the autumn sun, looked spectacular. Going in close emphasised the light falling on the trunk and the seasonal colours.
More commonly known as Montbretia, This particular plant was seen growing against a Church wall earlier this year.
screwing around in photoshop led to this aesthetic like picture
(original photo creds to a human I don't know)
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The primary colours of the new OCMW government department building in Brugge, Belgium.
An interesting fact ;~} This is currently the most interesting photograph tagged with Bruges on the whole of Flickr! Wow and thanks to lthomas for pointing this out to me!
A set of ragged colours from the Border Regiment in the beautiful early 13th Century Holy Trinity Kendal Parish Church. The 60s sculpture of the Crown of Thorns hangs in the Border Regiment's memorial chapel
Actually it was after a major storm last winter on the east coast of England, but the colours in the sunset were amazing.
Autumn colours around the railway here, even the green bridge at Ecclesfield blending into the background, as the rail head treatment train passes through the Ecclesfield area of Sheffield on train 3S13 Grimsby Town to Malton with the high pressure water cannon wagons used to blast leaves and the adhesion they cause from the railway line and clear the way for the safe passage of passenger trains this set hauled by Class 20 diesel locomotives number 20304 and 20305 the engines operated by Direct Rail Services of Carlisle from its out base in York where the rail head treatment trains are based. This one here heads back towards North Yorkshire spraying as it goes with the train heading back out of Sheffield and back towards Barnsley and Wakefield.
I understand that skulls and skeletons are a little passé but there is something really rather enjoyable about painting them. Its probably to do with the fact that they are so easily recognisable yet still rather alien to us at the same time. As you can tell by the pose of this skeleton he was in life a bit of a dick always thinking he's better than everyone else. Just look how even now he stares off into the middle distance like he's pondering something incredibly important - which he isn't. What a self important fool...
That said, this particular skull has been imbued with special powers . And I don't mean anything like the crystal skulls in the latest Indians Jones movie either. This bugger's special ability is to change the colour tone of his skull whilst your painting him. Which can be quite annoying let me tell you. One minute your using azure blue the next process red, what a shit indeed. Anyway i solved the problem surrounding him - you just make the colours up as you go along. Job done.
Cheers
id-iom
Title: Skele-tone
Materials: Paint pen, acrylic, ink, pastel, spray paint and charcoal
Size: A2
Please email if interested
was lucky everyone else was in muted colours.
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according to www.histclo.com/gender/color.html ...
Gender and Color
Some authors use the modern associations between colors and genders as a way of determining gender in old paintings. There is much reason to believe, however that the blue-for-boys, pink-for-girls idea is a fairly modern one, even a 20th-century convention. Other colors such as the idea that wedding dresses must be white are fairly recent, many dating to the Victorian era.
Chronology
I'm not positive just when the color conventions for children developed. Despite the very strong modern color associations, available evidence suggests that it was not until well into the 20th Century that our modern pattern became fixed. Many such conventions were set during the Victorian era, but the modern gender associations with color does not appear to be one of them. While I have little information at this time, it is a subject I plan to pursue.
Specific Colors
The most widely held modern color convention is of course pink for girls and blue for boys. This association has not always been accepted and it appears to be a relatively modern one.
Blue
Blue was used for boys' charity school uniforms in the 17th Century. This was not because blue had any special significance, but in part because blue dyes, relatively easy to produce, were inexpensive. The Blue Coat schools are renowed to this day. Blue at times has been widely worn by girls. Some considered it more suitable for girls as it is a softer, more subdued color. Blue is also the color most associated with the Virgin Mary. In the Middles Ages, blue was often associated with true lovers and faithful servants. At the turn of the 19th Cenntury, blue was the preferred color for girls' waistbands on white Empire dresses.
Pink
HBC has noted pink used for children's clothes as early as the 18th century. We do not, however, yet fully understand the gender connotations. We have noted pink use in paintings and variety of observations. At one point pink was considered more of a boy's color, as a watered-down red, which is a fierce color) and blue was morefor girls. The associate of pink with bold, dramatic red clearly affected its use for boys. An American newspaper in 1914 advised mothers, "If you like the color note on the little one's garments, use pink for the boy and blue for the girl, if you are a follower of convention." [The Sunday Sentinal, March 29, 1914.] A woman's magazine in 1918 informed mothers, "There has been a great diversity of opinion on the subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is pertier for the girl." [Ladies Home Journal, June, 1918] This undoubteldy strikes modern readers as very surprising indeed. Some sources suggest it was not until the 1940s that the modern gender associations with color became universally accepted.
Red
Laura Ingalls Wilder's in her Little House books talks in great detail about her upbringing in the 1870s-80s. Her blonde younger sister always had blue hair-ribbons and brunette Laura always had red, because apparently it was an accepted convention that blondes wore blue and brunettes red. I have tried to assess the colors in the hairbows worn by boys. Most appear to be white, but there are colored ones and some do appear to be red. A HBC reader tells us, "My Grandmother told me of time when Red dresses were a boys color and girls wore blue dresses girls. My whole life the boys' color was and still is blue.