Heading Into My Blue Period

It's kind of a surprise to me too...not my normal warm red oxide and turquoise that I've always seemed to gravitate to...and I'm liking it! It is interesting how a color will all of a sudden show up on your palette and you just go with it.

 

Prussion Blue

 

Cerulean Blue

 

Manganese Blue

Lots of artist go through a blue period...most famously Pablo Picasso. For the fun of it I looked up the meaning of blue for this post...WOW...there's a lot is going on with blue!

 

The color blue symbolizes confidence and authority that is noninvasive and objective. Unlike red, blue is nonthreatening, fostering peace, dependability and security. Since the color produces a slow physiological response, blue is also the color of creativity.

 

Blue represents both the sky and the sea, and is associated with open spaces, freedom, intuition, imagination, expansiveness, inspiration, and sensitivity. After reading this last sentence I have no doubt why blue is showing up...open spaces, freedom, expansiveness are jumping right off the page at me!

Back in March of this year I painted the three pieces below to produce the blues of cyanotype with paint. I enjoyed so much creating layers of different blues mixed in with soft greens and earthy touches of rust and goldenrod...I kinda captured the look. I think the blues really started showing up after I took an actual cyanotype class back in July...you can see that post by clicking HERE. I fell in love with all the blues that magically show up in a cyanotype print and have continued exploring that medium.

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Presently I just finished the 60x48 piece below for our studio entrance, these are the progress photos. I now have a large stack of blue cyanotypes along with tubes of different blue paints to play with... I'm thinking of maybe mixing them together and see what comes up...I can't wait to share that!

Blue is the color of the sky, the limit of your imagination...

the beginning of your dreams.

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