I is for Indigo

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Why? I love the color. Blues are my favorite colors, although I like all of them. But the gorgeous deep blue of indigo, the color of the sea or sky at evening, flowers that seem to shine and glow, there’s a magic there. And on feathers, once again I find delight.

The lighthouse near Presque Isle Park
Monday
Image from Pixabay, thank you!
Photo by Hal Moran on Pexels.com

Written for blogging from A to Z April Challenge: I

2 thoughts on “I is for Indigo”

  2. Blue is an amazing color. I say that speaking as a painter. Some blue pigments are mysterious and helpful. Others are assertive and determined. The one I love most is ultramarine made from lapis lazuli. It’s a helpful blue — withdrawn and eager to please, it can be intense and dark if painted with a heavy concentration or fade into snow-shadows. Indigo is a stand-alone kind of blue. It wants to do its thing and its thing is great, but it has an undercurrent of black in the color that’s limiting in a painting. Cerulean is — to me — the color of the sky (in your water photo) most of the time and it’s very happy to work with white to do the whole sky ombre game. Some artists use a different blue Pthalo blue for example. All of them are beautiful.

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June 2017: I started writing Curioussteph.com with this: By day, I'm a retired family physician turned body-oriented psychotherapist. I garden, travel, am owned by 2 elderly cats, figure skate and am training for my first triathlon. April 2020: Three years later, the two elderly cats have crossed the rainbow bridge, and we now have an 11 year old adoptee, Ziggy. I'm done with triathlon and skating for the time being, and I am still physically active, running, biking and walking. It's now the time of the coronavirus, which is affecting us all.