CERULEAN: some green, some blue

Sunday, March 11, 2018

some green, some blue

For the TAW challenge this week: green.

Collage, painted, drawn, 12,5 x 12,5 cm: "some blue, some green"

Although I have never been there, there was an Irish landscape on my mind.

9 comments:

Ozstuff said...: Beautiful shades of green in your Irish landscape.; March 12, 2018 at 4:29 AM
Meggymay said...: Lovely shades of green its a wonderful collage,; March 12, 2018 at 12:41 PM
indybev said...: Such a serene piece!; March 12, 2018 at 3:03 PM
Deann said...: Lovely work.; March 13, 2018 at 12:04 AM
Michele said...: gorgeously green, lovely texture. xo; March 13, 2018 at 5:13 AM
Taluula said...: I love to open your blog and see how you've interpreted the theme and I am never disappointed. This is gorgeous, Eric.; March 13, 2018 at 4:32 PM
Sim said...: Your textures are always so rich Eric.
Wonderful geen irish landscape, I can imagine the waterway, paths, grove of trees & even sheeps...; March 14, 2018 at 1:58 PM
Lori Saul said...: Wonderful hues of green in an imaginative landscape!; March 16, 2018 at 2:39 AM
Sharmon Davidson said...: Wonderful! I don't recall seeing you do much work using green, but I love the thought of an Irish landscape!; March 19, 2018 at 7:33 PM

About the name

Cerulean is a range of colours from deep blue, skye-blue, bright blue or azure to deep cyan. The word cerulean comes from the Latin word caerulem, which means 'sky' or 'heavens' or sometimes 'oceans'.

Besides cerulean, ultramarine (cornflower blue) plays a prominent role. This pigment is natural present in the mineral lazurite, found in the valuable lapis lazuli.

From 1100 onwards this pigment, imported from Asia (China, Afghanistan), reaches the ateliers of painters in Europe, the blue of old masters Ducio, Titiaan and Vermeer.

In Italy the colour was known as Azurro Oltramarino. Literally 'the azurite coming from beyond the seas'.

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Sunday, March 11, 2018

some green, some blue

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