Spring’s Dazzling Dizzying Profusion of Color
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As winter melts into spring, the opera of new color bursting on the scene is nothing short of thrilling. Color is everywhere, vibrant and alive. And as I rediscover colors I’ve not seen in nature for months, I feel like someone learning how to see all over again.
Faced with the abundance of color April in the southern USA offers, I take pictures and make sketches hungrily, hoping to capture bits of this glory and hold it forever. Or I find myself staring for unusually long periods of time. Today at a cinnabar red cardinal perched next to a bluejay. Between them, in the distance, spokes of yellow forsythia shook in the wind. With the delicacy and precision of an ikebana arrangement, red, yellow, and blue twittered and swayed in my gaze. My Muse must have conjured this up special for me, for such a display of primary colors could hardly have happened by chance.
The colors now are fresh, light and warm. Most spring florals are not fully saturated, unless they are of lighter value such as yellows and pinks (scroll below to see the forsythia, wisteria, cherry blossoms, azaleas, dogwoods and peony). Birds are a different story, as shown in the cardinal and bluejay scene mentioned earlier. They are tiny bolts of pure color swooping in and out of the scene, igniting it.
Spring colors have a fresh, liquid quality. I think of them as colors bathed in dew, with the sun sparkling behind them.
I translate all this energy into beads by choosing transparent and translucent beads with AB finishes which echo the liquid light of spring. Gemstones such as rose quartz, peridot, aquamarine, apatite, and pale amethyst echo springs’ shimmering anthem.
I find it impossible to be anything but humbled and head-over-heels inspired by such dazzling beauty that is canvas to my Muse, and home to me.
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