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Caught this little beauty on my lantana plant last week! 🦋

#beautybreak

@ImperfectCJ
@AmyG,
@kspenmoll, @Tamra, @JessClark78, @Sace, @dabbe, @Dilara, @LiseWorks, @AnnCrystal, @uncommonlycozies

Tamra How awesome! 1mo

LiseWorks Nice! 1mo

Dilara So pretty! 1mo

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AmyG Ooooo beautiful 1mo

TheEllieMo Beautiful 1mo

uncommonlycozies This is so pretty!🤩 Butterflies are sometimes so hard to photograph 1mo

dabbe 🧡💜💛 1mo

OriginalCyn620 Thank you! @Tamra @LiseWorks @Dilara @AmyG @TheEllieMo @uncommonlycozies @dabbe 1mo

AnnCrystal Beautiful, Nature is a living work of art 🤩🏵️🦋😍💝. 1mo

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Harvesting Color: How to Find Plants and Make Natural Dyes | Rebecca Burgess

#tlt @dabbe
77% I've done a lot of this list.

a few I only did once and never will again: apple bobbing, and haunted house.

TheBookHippie SAME!!!! 2mo

dabbe Agree 💯! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🧡🍁♥️ 2mo

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kelli7990

Birds | Kevin Henkes

I colored this picture on one of my coloring apps and I wanted to make up a story about it.

#haiku #haikuhive

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JenlovesJT47 🦅♥️♥️♥️ 3mo

lil1inblue 💛🐦💛🦜💛🐦‍⬛💛 Lovely! 3mo

dabbe 💙♥️🩵 3mo

AnnCrystal LOVE 👏🏼🐝👌🏼🐦🐝💝. 3mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Chromophobia | David Batchelor

so-so

And around and around we go! 😵‍💫 When the book started with a chapter about whitescapes, an apparent critique of minimalist architecture/interior design, I thought maybe we were going to consider individual colours, how people historically have reacted to them, how they might arouse fear, disgust, phobia, as much as praise, from an art-focused, rather than psychological basis. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? But after the first chapter, it was a bunch of chapters considering the idea of not liking colour or colours, as a unit, at all, largely from the perspective of writers from the 19th century or earlier, contrasting with what I guess the author saw as the clearest emergent vote for colour thereafter, the 1960s with psychedelia and pop art. Film also gets in there, too. 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? The 19th century opinions showcase a staggering amount of anthropocentric, hierarchical thinking, attempting to make line, form, architecture, superior to colour, and proving both racist and misogynist in the way colour and its associations/attributes are described as subordinated to form. 😬 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? There was also a chapter discussing how different languages have different conceptions of basic colours, pitting colour against language, the idea that people react to colour before they have language, that describing colour is often beyond words. A side tangent that felt very tangential.
I guess if you're going to look at the range of opinions in art criticism and see what the reasoning was behind chromophobia you'll sample whatever period 3mo

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? of history such views hold sway, but it does feel somewhat truncated that there were some published dudes in the 1800s (not all anti-colour but majority of those quoted) and seemingly a reaction to this mindset by dudes in the 1960s, and this author decided in 2000 to quote a bunch of each group without touching on much time outside of what was either decades or hundreds of years' old writings, interviews. 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/? The paragraphs, the meanderings Batchelor gets into featuring his own thoughts did often seem to be repeats, paragraphs going round in circles.
So:
Some older people have not liked colour and their reasons are kind of sus, many people, artists, have worked with and discussed colour (some are recognized as trailblazers for doing so) in ways that might not be recognized as art by the older guys, but why should we care what they thought? 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 7/? And maybe modern minimalism is the backlash to the backlash depending on whether your tastes run that way, but I don't see it in danger of taking over the world based on the life of colour and creativity I'm witness to every day in person and online. 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 8/8 There were a number of 20th century artists and some art critics from both time periods quoted that I think I'd like to follow up on, but aside from fulfilling an essay requirement (with a hefty word count stipulation) for an art history course, I'm not sure why Batchelor would choose these angles on this topic. 🤷🏼‍♂️ 3mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Chromophobia | David Batchelor

“...nothing particularly original.“ 💅🏻

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Lands

Paris in Color | Nichole Robertson

My color Paris birthday booty 🎉.

Ruthiella Happy Birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 4mo

AmyG Happy Birthday 🎂 4mo

TheBookgeekFrau Happy Birthday!! 🎉🎊 4mo

Lands @Ruthiella @AmyG @TheBookGeekFrau Thank you!!! 4mo

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kelli7990

Birds | Kevin Henkes

This haiku is about what I saw in my backyard today. The blue jay flew off when I opened the door and I saw a lizard in the grass panting like he was scared to death. He was fighting for his life trying to keep from getting eaten. Poor baby. This picture of the Blue Jay is from Google.

Blue jay fighting with a lizard
The fight ended with the lizard panting in the grass
The lizard won the fight because he didn‘t get eaten

#haiku #haikuhive

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TheBookHippie Pretty! What a fun Haiku 5mo

dabbe Your words made me cheer for the lizard! 💚🦎💚 5mo

julieclair Go lizard! 🦎🏆 5mo

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JenlovesJT47 🦎🐦🦎🐦🦎🐦🦎 5mo

lil1inblue Fun! Go Mr. Lizard! 🦎🦎🦎 5mo

AnnCrystal You saved the Lizard 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🦎🥳🐦🐝💝. 5mo

Eggs Wow I have never seen a bird go for a lizard 🦎! The cats go for the lizards too 🦎 5mo

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kelli7990

Birds | Kevin Henkes

This haiku is dedicated to my backyard wild birds and squirrels. I fed the birds and put out peanuts for the squirrels yesterday and put in fresh water in the bird bath yesterday and today. My birds and squirrels are having a party outside today in my backyard. They‘re happy.

Birds and squirrels having a party in the backyard
Taking baths, drinking water, scarfing down the food
like they haven‘t been fed in 4 or 5 days

#haiku #haikuhive

JenlovesJT47 🐿️🐦‍⬛🐿️🐦‍⬛🐿️ how fun!! 5mo

dabbe L🦜🐿️VE! 🖤🐝🖤 5mo

lil1inblue Excellent! 🐦🤩🐿 5mo

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AnnCrystal 🤩 A garden party 🥳 how lovely and beautiful 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🐿️🐦🐝💝. 5mo

Eggs Nice birdbath too! 5mo

julieclair I love the idea of them having a party! 🐿️🥳🐦‍⬛ 5mo

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian

They Say Blue | Jillian Tamaki

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Absolutely gorgeous picture about colour and nature, wouldn't expect anything less from Jillian Tamaki. I love how she draws movement.

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LibrarianRyan

Freestyle Color Collage Quilting: A Unique Method for Creating Bold Designs with Fabric | Carly Mul

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4 ⭐I took a collage quilting class and made a project with my mom. It was fun. But part of it felt very wasteful. What I like about this book is the emphasis on scraps as well as other things to help blend everything together. I do like how she talks about color technique, and pathing. But one of the things that annoys me is that there is the right way to do this type of applique.

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