Blog Category: Color
Peacocks preen.
Jan Huling beaded peacock feathers. Madhubani style peacock painting. Vintage Erte scarf.
Mosaics up close.
Black and yellow mosaic. Bottlecap mosaic. Bloom fragment mosaic. And more.
Radical hearts.
Flying heart tin milagros. Caged neon heart. Flaming heart tattoo art.
Shipping container houses.
Snug and cheerful in their corrugated metal skin.
Red things.
Red flaming heart milagro. Vintage red leather corset. Red cowboy boots.
Poppies are lovely.
Poppies are resilient, symbolic and lovely. Here’s a poppy mosaic. Poppy tattoo. Ann Shaw’s art quilt with a single massive poppy.
“Yellow communicates happiness and alarm in one fell swoop.” —Man Repeller
Cuna reverse appliqué. Pumpkin Infinity by Japanese artist Yayoi Kasuma. Student residences.
Contemporary Aboriginal dot painting.
Australian Aborigines are adapting their traditional dot painting technique to new color schemes and freer abstraction.
Eyes and ears.
Tucson wall art. Detail of Red Glasses quilt by Artsy Chick. Iris Apfel’s signature glasses.
The Bowerbird collects electric blue.
The male Satin Bowerbird collects fragments of vibrant blue to woo his lady love.
