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Never Say Goodbye

I have been crazy about colorful things for years. I have also learned painting for 7 years, but I never thought that I will start to study color through this way: writing blogs!

To be honest, I really have no idea where to start my color study before the writing. The only thing I know is that I'm excited whenever I see colorful things and I want to be a designer but nothing will happen next. It probably because the excitement is not strong enough to push into learning. After all, studying is a little bit boring and I never tried in the past 20 years.

But now, I am more into it and I know there are various method for me to learn about color. Books, magazines, speeches, artistic works, etc. all provoke me the initial interests. My writing ability is improved as well.　

Thanks for my Professor Leonard and you, my audiences. I'll keep studying on color and I hope one day I can design out my own works with what I have learned.

Never say goodbye to color, to design, and to you!

#color

An Interview with Elena Baca:" I Just Paint whatever I Think!

Knowing with Elena is because she was painting this picture outside, which causes my attention since then. I can't believe that she just starts painting from last spring when she was traveling in Spain, which is really a fabulous place for cultivating artists. Today I had an interview with her and she is exactly the person who can solve my problems in painting.

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What kind of painting are you good at? Make a copy of someone's work or create something in your mind?

I make a copy sometimes, like this one (she pointed a picture on her wall.) is a master's work. But actually, I paint in real life. I paint what I see. (she started to show me her works.) This is what I see through my window, and this is here. This is a swimming pool. I just pick an angle and sit there and start to draw. Just sitting there and doing it.

What will you define yourself? A painter or a designer. I wanna be a designer but I don't think I'm a creative guy. I stop painting for several years because I don't want to always make a copy. I wanna do something by my own. I mean even if I can paint exactly the same work from a master, it's still not mine. I'm just good at copying. Having your ever thought about that or do you have some advice for me?

I don't think you are not creative. You need to develop it. Just draw what you see and what you think. You just get into it. You can start from photos. (She taught me some details from what she has drawn in Spain.)

What if your painting is not the same as what you think or what you see? Do you worry about that?

I'm pretty okay in using the dimensions I use a ruler to help me. Because when you think it's one angle, it's actually another. I tend to just go with the flow, knowing that the color will change. It won't come out the exact way. It's not important you put all the details. What important is that you are into what you're drawing. You have passion and you are motivated to do it. You work with colors and change the tones. You just play and have fun with it.

I really love colorful things. I become excited when I see color. But it just stop there and I don't know what to do next. How to use the color to painting.

I love colors too. It's okay. It takes times. Last semester, I took a water color in course and they focused on color, and how the colors interact. Some colors could be active or could be angry feel. And the red colors pop out. And it depends on how intense the colors are. I try to stick with similar colors and then an exactly opposite, just bring things out. (Then she showed me how she is better used colors in her work.)

Do you think you will take an art school since you have a passion on it.

No, I don't think so. I don't need to do that. I'm just drawing what I see. Usually I have trouble with abstract. But I'm getting better. It's part of my style. I believe that the world is my teacher. So I would learn as I do it. It's what you believe, who cares.Art is so objective. Yeah, there will be people who don't like your stuff, but there will be also other people who will love it.

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The interview with Elena is so happy and useful. Color gives me passion. I just need to keep trying and start painting what I want.

Now I know:

I don't need someone else to tell me how the color matches. I need to know how I think it matches. But it takes time, more practice from now!

#art #interview #color #painting

Listen to Color

Can you imagine that one day you become a cyborg with an electronic eye so that you are able to listen to colors. Different colors just like different music notes and make their own sounds. If you put colors together and use the electronic eye to listen, you may hear a wonderful concert.

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This really happened, and it is the most interesting device I have ever seen. I don't even remember the speaker's name, who had the speech on TED introducing his special device, but I do know there are lots of people living a greyscale world with sorrows. The electronic eye will help those people find a "colorful" world.

The life has dramatically changed since the speaker hear color. Now he can hear masters' painting works. The way for his dress is changed. People used to dress in a way that looks good, but he dresses in a way that sounds good. He can also choose a meal, a panting or even a beauty that doesn't look good but really sounds good. I burst into laugh when he said:" It's very, very attractive to walk along a supermarket. It's like going to a nightclub." It seems like everything in the market shelves is yelling:"Buy me! Buy me!"

This creative method of hearing color make me think that music and art have much in common and they can help each other to be better. An excellent music work will not only sound good, but also look good if translating all of the notes in to colors. So is the painting. It must sound good when listening. In this case, we probably can invent a new tool to evaluate music or art works in the future!

Vedio Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_harbisson_i_listen_to_color.html

#listen #color

The Power of White and Black

White and black is another classic match. They are more powerful in dressing and decoration than the red and blue, which I have mentioned before in my blog.

White is light while black is dark. White represents day and black represents night. Therefore, white and black are the two extreme colors. Putting them together will cause a powerful visual impact to viewers, and things are easily remembered.

This classic match is also popular in photograph.

The white-and-black photo showed below was taken in a poverty mountainous area in 1991. With the impressive name "I want to study", a lot of people were shocked by this photo. From the perspective of arts, using white and black played a key role. Sharp contrast strengthened the girl's strong hope for study and reminded people's sympathy, so was the Hope project. After seeing this photo, the Hope project in China used it as their poster to raise fund to help more children living in the poverty-stricken places and build more hope schools for them.

Tens of thousands of children were able to go to school to get knowledge from then on. The life for the girl in the picture also changed. Now she has grown up and found a pretty good job in a bank. Meanwhile, doing charity publicity for children who cannot afford school is her important work during her spare time.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/photo/2008-11/25/xin_4521105250856218192244.jpg

#white and black #color #the Hope project

Book Recommendation: Color Studies

Color Studies is written by Edith Anderson Feisner and published in 2006. It is a fabulous and useful book to know about color, especially for the person who are crazy about color but don't know where to start, just like me. :)

This book starts from a description on foundations and dimensions of color. Namely, what is color and colors' characteristics. After the detailed introduction about color itself, the author wrote about the influence of color. How color influences our life through language, emotion and design.

The most successful of this book is that enormous pictures and graphs are used to explain the complicated concepts and compare different effects of adding different colors. It can make the difficult concepts and effects easy-to-understand and memorable.

#color

Emily's Homemade Poster for Christmas

Red with green can form a strong contrast to attract viewers.

There is a research found that among the primary colors: red, yellow and blue, if you mix two of them, the new mixing color with the rest color is the sharp contrast visually. (red & green; yellow & purple; blue & orange)

Terracotta Army with its Original Color

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As a native person in Xi'an, Shaanxi province of China, I have been to terra-cotta army's museum for many times. It is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. To be specific, there are four main pits associated with terra-cotta armies with more than 6,000 figures in each pit. The figures include warriors, chariots and horses. All of them are life-sized, and each warrior has a different facial expression. No one is the same.

However, I'm not going to talk about how spectacular the whole museum is or how great the human beings are. This museum has successfully attracted visitors from all over the world, but almost every tourists who have been to there felt some regret after hearing the explanation of guides. Actually, the figures were all originally painted with bright pigments, variously colored in red, pink, green, black, brown, white, etc. These colors could be seen when the figures were just dug out, but they faded off immediately because of the oxidation. Therefore, the governments decide to stop the development of the rest figures until they find an effective technology to protect these colors from fading off.

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It seems like a reasonable explanation, but as far as I'm concerned, I never think the problem is the technology since solving the oxidation problem is much easier compared with other hi-tech works. The probably reason is: the governments don't want to show terracotta army with its original color too soon; they need to keep the color as their trumps to make visitors feel regret and to attract them next time. There isn't any strong reason to attract people twice and it is just not the right time.

#terracotta #color

Response to the Op/Ed article: Shades of Gay

Gay is a popular topic in recent years and the article: Shades of Gay gives some opinions on the research that if Americans personally identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The most fascinating part is young black men are more likely to say "yes" than young white men, according to the article.

I think I am as confused as the author. Most of the white people probably have the sense of superiority compared with other races in both historical reasons and modern development. What I am sure is, there must be some misgivings that leads to such result, like the author said:"Could it be that some men of color have less at stake financially that could be jeopardized by identifying as gay than their white counterparts?"

Work cited: Shades of Gay by Charles M. blow in the New York Times.

3 Controversial Topics

1.Pet grooming——Dog Hair Dye

http://www.squidoo.com/dog-hair-dye

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"Dog hair dye is the hottest new trend in pet grooming. With dog hair dye you can turn your dog's hair pink, blue, yellow, purple, green or all the colors of the rainbow. With a little more effort and creativity, you can dye your dog's hair to make your dog look like a panda, zebra or tiger." (qtd. in http://www.squidoo.com/dog-hair-dye) Dog hair dye must be the most controversial issue among people who love animals.

This is what I got from YouTube Top comments on "Coloring Dog Fur with a Brush".I totally agree with the first comment.No matter if the dog dye hair kits are non-toxic or if you are full of creativity to turn dog into another animal,dogs and any other animals should be what they are.

3.iPod Touch 5:New Generation & New colors

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Apple just finished releasing its 5th generation iPod touch.The obvious change is the cover colors.

The new iPod touch are available in 5 different colors: white, black, red, yellow and blue. Changing color drives many people crazy. They pre-order at once after seeing the pictures of the new iPod touch; they think it is the best gift for the coming Christmas and probably even believe it is the best iPod Apple has ever made.

However,I would definitely be disappointed at the new Touch if I were Steven Jobs.To my surprise, Apple started to work on the exterior to attract consumers and to hold its market share,which may indicate that they have reached their peak.Thus,they focus on "appearance",which,in my point,cannot keep consumers in the long run.I absolutely hope what I thought is wrong, and Apple will develop new software to keep its brand loyalty.

3. Michael Jackson's skin color

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As we all know, superstar Michael Jackson's skin turned into white from black, and it seems like the rare skin condition called vitiligo he had is the only reason causing his skin color change. (Vitiligo is a condition in which patients will lose cells that give color to skin.)

According to a huge Michael fan, “Vitiligo took over almost 70% of Michael. He had to bleach himself white, for medical reasons, since bleaching black is impossible.” However, the controversy of his skin color is still on, since he did multiple surgeries in his life time. We still don’t know if his skin color was changed by itself or by himself.

#controversial #dog dye hair #iPod touch 5 #Michael Jackson

Color Matters

Color Matters is a website headed by Color Professor Jill Morton,who is full of passion on color.This website presents COLOR & Design,COLOR & Marketing,COLOR & the Body,COLOR & Vision,COLOR &Science,COLOR Resources and COLOR Symbolism,almost all aspects about color!It also takes global color survey on various questions of color. Admittedly,color is irreplaceable and causes powerful reactions in nearly everywhere.

Therefore,color matters!And Color Matters matters!

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After scanning Color Matters' Website,I find it's really wide-ranging enough for people to know about how color impacts,although it is somewhat poor in depth,such as the given examples.But I still think Color Matters is a great website deserving a look!

Click here! http://www.colormatters.com/

#Color Matters

Pick Your Nail Polish

From what I've seen,people here have deep love for many things and,of course,the nail polish！

I think girls must be crazy about polishes in a variety of colors,but it's not meaning all colors that you admire suit you.Different skin tones match different nail shades,you need to find which color is right for you,according to your complexion(skin color).

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Fair complexion

Fair and pale complexion is what we call whites.They are lucky dogs.You have the most kinds of shades to choose from,since white "goes well with almost any color"(qtd. in Jacci Howard Bear).Light or bright color(like purple,red,pink,orange) will be the best choice for you.Just remember avoid dark tints because it will cause a high contrast,"unless you are a Goth style fan or wish to wear an eye-popping nail art style."(qtd. in "Nail Polish Color and Skin Tone")

Medium complexion

Most Asians have the medium complexion,like me.We can wear with deep color(dark or brown).I don't think some vibrant colors like pink,yellow,blue and orange,as some articles said,suit the yellow race.My friends and I have tried these vibrant colors which make our skin tone look darker.

Dark complexion

"When it comes to nail polish,those who have dark complexion should think on a darker shade scale"("Nail Polish Color and Skin Tone"),except dark brown and other colors which will disappear.Dark green,red and gold are the top choice for you.As I mentioned before,don't wear white.Black to white isn't what you want for your skin.

Girls,are you ready for your nail polish?

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#nail polish

Are Bulls colorblind?!!

Speaking of bullfighting,perhaps most of us always think in this way.

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P1: Matadors (Bullfighters) use red capes at bullfights.

P2: Bulls go crazy when they watch the flapping red capes.

C: Bulls are quite sensitive to red.

It seems like a very acceptable conclusion, but what if we take a second look and ask why the conclusion cannot be that bulls are sensitive to flapping things, rather than red.

Actually,according to much research,bulls are indeed colorblind."The Mythbusters tested this one out and found that the bulls were just as likely to charge at white flags and blue flags as they were to charge at red ones. The bulls also ignored a guy dressed in red who stayed motionless. Turns out that bulls just charge at whatever moves the most, regardless of color."(qtd. in Justin Lietz)

Therefore,the flapping cape,the aggressive person and the excited atmosphere in the bullring are the keys to make bulls mad.

Then why is red chosen to be the color of capes?

It is a tradition in Spain culture, and red is also the color of the Spanish flag.But in my point, using red is not purely a tradition. Red represents hot,crazy, and "powerful emotions such as fear,anger and passion."(qtd. in Rachel Grumman Bender) Red is definitely no use to bulls,but really useful to the audiences watching bullfighting.They probably become more crazy than bulls because of the flapping red capes!

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Work cited:Justin Lietz "The color red does not make bulls go crazy" Rachel Grumman Bender "How color affects our mood?"

#bull #colorblind

In the article"50 Shades of Color:How the Evolution of Palettes Changed the World"(09/23/2012),Alice Rawsthorn introduces the importance of color in society,culture and business.His article follows the clues of Regina Lee Blaszczyk's book"The Color Revolution",and analyzes in depth from the 19th century to mid-20th century.Alice's purpose is to show the powerful of color and she really make it,with various evidences and truths,for those audiences who always forget how important color is.

The powerful force of color had been used socially,culturally and economically.

In ancient times,ointment jars or public monuments both have their typical representative color.Different colors were also used to regulate people's social classes during the Middle Ages.

Color's revolution started from that day：when William Henry Perkin,a student at the Royal College of Chemistry,"he noticed that his formula had strained a cotton rag in a beautiful lilac or mauve hue",then he made a quick decision to commence the dye works.

“It was a sumptuous shade of pale purple." (qtd. in Alice Rawsthorn)

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After finding the amazing of color,a growing number of colors start to active in people's normal life.Gradually,no classes.

Then,"color engineers" show up,who typically "advise companies on how to respond to the latest hues".It is because that companies have realized that color would influence consumers' behaviors to a large extent,so that "color engineers" also need to combine "psychological insights into consumer preferences with statistics and trend information".(qtd. in Alice Rawsthorn)

In my opinion, the color's revolution is inevitable and quite successful.The popularity of color proves it.

Who knows how many magic aspects of color are still waiting to be discovered?But we know it must be countless.

Work cited:Alice Rawsthorn."50 Shades of Color:How the Evolution of Palettes Changed the World" The Newyork Times.Published:september 23,2012

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/arts/design/50-shades-of-color-how-the-evolution-of-palettes-changed-the-world.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=color&

#color revolution #lilac

Red and Blue:Forever "Lovers"

I think most of us use our visual sense only to identify what kind of colors look comfortable when purchasing,but we have no idea why these colors are able to cause such sense to virson.

Starting to pay attention on them is because of a casual chat with my friend,he said:red and blue is the classic match almost in everywhere.Then,I found that the most typical sample is the American flag,so is the brand of Pepsi! And I really can find such match in lots of places!

Then why do red and blue fall in love with each other?

Pantone’s color studies show that “red has been shown to stimulate the senses and raise the blood pressure, while blue has the opposite effect and calms the mind.” Which means red is "the hot, crazy girl of colors, evoking powerful emotions such as fear, anger and passion"(Rachel Grumman Bender),while blue repersnets a sense of tranquility,it's the color of boundless ocean and sky.So that people will have a best sexy impression on you by donning red nail polish and lining your lips in bright red,and if you want to create relaxation for people,a blue suit will make sense.

Therefore,like the reaction between acid and base making out neutral water,most things do not want to go to extremes,so that the hot red and the warm blue become special lovers and always show off their happiness!

Marilyn Monroe

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#red and blue #classic match

Introduction

We cannot deny the truth that we take a lot of things for granted,such as air,light,electric,fire and color.It is because that most of us are too familiar with things like that to pay attention to them. But I want to say that you are not familiar with them,you are just used to them in your normal daily life.

I ignored it in the past 20 years and I think it's unfair way to deal with such important thing in my life.

So,follow me and get to know color together!

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I just can't help to become excited when I see colorful things!

#color

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