Words + Images

Today I am cold and unfocused and really just wanting to wrap myself in warm colors.  Yep, that’s right.  Colors.  Inspiration probably stems from how cold and gray the day is here in New England.   Literally, people around me are bundled up in hats and scarves with heaters tucked under their desks.  It’s May for goodness sake.  Oh well.

Yellow popped into my head first, which was bit of a surprise.  Yellow is a color I tend to take for granted.  Like Woolf, I’m more likely to wax romantic about blues and greens, or challenge myself to track down reds.  With orange I have always been intimate.  But yellows …hmmm.  Today I think of yellow butterflies and the lemony blossoms of evening primrose that I once used to perfume a fantasy story.

Rose was next to settle, inspired by a Jim Brandenburg print taped to my wall.  An image of the northern lights.  Under rose hues comes blue then a layer of soft greens in shades of mint, moss and sage.  A nighttime rainbow.

I am getting up to get a cup of coffee in hopes that will help me shake free of these whimsical thoughts so that I can settle into my work.  More likely, I will watch the brew flow into my cup and begin to think about all the beauty to be found in shades of brown.