Patterns in colour

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  Tangled Garden by J.E.H. MacDonald

  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 by Kent Crawford

  

  These are the colours for Thimble Berries

   

  January 20, 2014