![Tangled Garden](https://www.kentcrawford.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/tangled_garden_1000x798.jpg)
When I saw the mountains behind the thimble berries and fireweed that became the subject of my painting Thimble Berries, I remembered the Canadian post impressionist, J.E.H. MacDonald‘s wall of blue purple behind his garden. I don’t think you can say there was a particular colour or colour combination that post impressionists used. They took the Impressionists vivid colours and exaggerated them. They shared the idea that colour could have a meaning of its own or your own. I like the idea that colour has it’s own life and you respond to it.
![Thimble Berries](https://www.kentcrawford.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/thimble-berries-1995-pa-tgf-1050x665.jpg)
![Thimble Berries colour chart](https://www.kentcrawford.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/thimble_-berry_-chart_1000x446.jpg)