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January 27, 2010 | Posted By: Annie | 2 Comments
Filed Under Annie, Life, Our Artwork
Watching Hope for Haiti as I type this out and send it to post in the future, so so hard to see those babies alone. I wonder if I should change the channel when seeing them doesn’t allow me to hold them, only makes me terribly sad.
I have strayed far from colors lately. I suppose its my devoted affection for graphite, gray is my comfort zone, art and clothes (sans neon nails and lips). I confess I really have never been satisfied with my color choices in the past, I feel like someone else chose them, not me. I am ready to try again though. Since having a child somehow I am certain of so much more now, the clothes that I like, the decor that I like, the art that I like, the food and I think maybe the colors. . . See the paint palette? Crayola! I got one for Marsh (which is now a collection of muddied ovals) and I couldn’t believe how wonderful the colors were. The watercolor palettes I remember as a child were so chalky. Oh its so fun! the blue! the red! the yellow!
That’s a lot of colors from a Crayola set - usually they just have six or eight. You should be able to create about 700,000 different combinations with those colors alone!
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