ode to warm and cool colors

10x10 pastel

sorry...I don't know what gets into me sometimes. Here it goes.

ode to warm and cool colors

Warm and cool colors, oh we love you so!
Let me describe the ways.
Ah! With simple shifts of warm and cool you can describe a shape while keeping the value the same.

You make vibration when we layer you delicately- especially in water or sky.

Oh my!

Little wonders, that you are, you can also define a shape, without needing to make a big value contrast.

So versatile are you...
we can't help but love you so!

color possesses me

 

10 x10 pastel on BFK

Sometimes I will begin work in the studio only to return to the outdoors. On this particular painting I have worked many days, frustrated with my ability to say what I wanted to say. Finally I took it to the field that inspired the concept. Warm on top of cool and cool on top of warm. I am finally finding a morsel of it.

Four years ago there was a magnificent show of Paul Klee in the Phillips Collection. It was filled with drawings, watercolors and oils.  Listen to his words, "Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am the painter."

Doesn't that say it all?