Painting with Carol

I am not sure that you would even want me to tackle the scientific side of colour as it would take up many, many pages and I am not even sure that I can explain it but I do recommend that you put a little homework in to understanding as much as you can. There are many wonderful books around just on the subject of colour. My husband, Linden, once bought me a book that is called COLOUR for my birthday and, because he bought it, I felt obliged to read it. I found that it was fascinating, much to my surprise and I couldn’t put it down!

Can you imagine a world without colour - especially to an artist? I feel I have to explain just a little about it as I feel that, as an artist, one shouldn’t take colour for granted. Colour is a sensation produced by white light rays received by the retina of the eye and interpreted by the brain. These white light rays, travelling from the sun in varying wavelengths contain all the colours that we see and we see them as colours. Light is fantastically complex - it is is electromagnetic energy, it creates colour and form, and of course without light we could see nothing at all. It makes me wish that I had studied science when I was at school. I am not sure if you want me to explain more about the colour wheel etc, at this stage or if you would like me to talk about it a little at a time as we paint together. Let me know.