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Hello, Red Fox | Eric Carle

#CurrentView - the joys of working from home 🏡

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OriginalCyn620

Butterfly, Butterfly | Petr Horacek

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

#beautybreak

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

Tamra How awesome! 3mo

LiseWorks Nice! 3mo

Dilara So pretty! 3mo

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AmyG Ooooo beautiful 3mo

TheEllieMo Beautiful 3mo

uncommonlycozies This is so pretty!🤩 Butterflies are sometimes so hard to photograph 3mo

dabbe 🧡💜💛 3mo

OriginalCyn620 Thank you! @Tamra @LiseWorks @Dilara @AmyG @TheEllieMo @uncommonlycozies @dabbe 3mo

AnnCrystal Beautiful, Nature is a living work of art 🤩🏵️🦋😍💝. 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. 5mo

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. 😬 5mo

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 5mo

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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. 5mo

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? 5mo

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. 5mo

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. 🤷🏼‍♂️ 5mo

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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! 🥳🥳🥳 6mo

AmyG Happy Birthday 🎂 6mo

TheBookgeekFrau Happy Birthday!! 🎉🎊 6mo

Lands @Ruthiella @AmyG @TheBookGeekFrau Thank you!!! 6mo

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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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Lindy

Natural Palettes: Inspirational Plant-Based Color Systems | Sasha Duerr

Some alpaca yarn dyed with kitchen scraps (pomegranate peels, avocado pits, onion skins) — I am getting ready for a new knitting project. #LitsyCrafters

daena Gorgeous 💖 12mo

BkClubCare How cool! 12mo

kspenmoll So beautiful! 12mo

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dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 12mo

LeahBergen What a beautiful picture! 12mo

julesG Colourful picture! Can't wait to see what you knit with the yarn. 12mo

tpixie Such beautiful yarn and so creative!!! Love how the yarn matches your painting as well! (edited) 12mo

Lindy @daena @BkClubCare @kspenmoll @dabbe @LeahBergen Thank you for your kind comments 🥰 12mo

Lindy @julesG I will try to remember to post when I get the knitting underway. 😘 12mo

Lindy @dabbe Thanks Teri! Matching the painting is a total fluke, but I like the way it looks too 😁 12mo

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GirlNamedJesse

What Is Color?: The Global, Brain-Exploding Story of Pigments, Paint, and the Wondrous World of Art | Steven Weinberg

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Fascinating and presented in an engaging and interesting way! 🎨

Princess-Kingofkings I love that you used MelCat! 1y

GirlNamedJesse @Princess-Kingofkings I‘m a librarian, so I‘m forever a proponent of inter-library loan! 😍 1y

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ZTReader

Lots of Dots | Craig Frazier

There are lots of dots. Big dots, little dots, and even dots with hats!“

ZTReader

Lots of Dots | Craig Frazier

Explore the vibrant world of Lots of Dots by Craig Frazier! This imaginative picture book invites young readers to discover the endless possibilities of dots in all shapes and sizes. With playful text and bold illustrations, children will learn how something as simple as a dot can inspire creativity and spark their imaginations. A delightful celebration of exploration and the beauty of play!

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