Yesterday I posted about “The Language of Color” in which John H. McWhorter points out that some languages don’t have the words ours does to describe colors. Ancient Greek was one such language, and did not have words for yellow, green, or blue. In The Iliad, Homer refers to “the wine dark sea.” Upon examination, that poetry seemed like a moment of either profound lacking of rods and cones, or a very limited color vocabulary.
In response to my post, V. Notes reader Miles Strombach sent in this picture, taken by his friend in Greece. The wine dark sea is real!!!
WTF Art History: Color
If you like purple and other useless words, you’ll hate Suzanne Walker’s upcoming WTF Color lecture on Nov 4th. Active League students attend free, with coupon code (just ask!). $20 for the rest of you. Please let us know you’re attending so we can have a chair for you.
Hatching (making parallel marks) and crosshatching (making parallel marks overlapped with parallel marks) are some of the most valuable tools for adding value, contour, movement, energy, and texture to a drawing. For materials, a sharp pencil or pen on smooth paper works great. Old fashioned pen and ink is made for this. If you’re new …
Welcome to the first faves fresh from the henhouse of this year’s 30SAL Creative Challenge. On January 1, 2022 we asked you all to make a self portrait with an egg, and you did eggzactly as we requested. We found more than 8 dozen hard boiled, cracked, and a few scrambled, all served to Instagram …
The Wine Dark Sea
Yesterday I posted about “The Language of Color” in which John H. McWhorter points out that some languages don’t have the words ours does to describe colors. Ancient Greek was one such language, and did not have words for yellow, green, or blue. In The Iliad, Homer refers to “the wine dark sea.” Upon examination, that poetry seemed like a moment of either profound lacking of rods and cones, or a very limited color vocabulary.
In response to my post, V. Notes reader Miles Strombach sent in this picture, taken by his friend in Greece. The wine dark sea is real!!!
WTF Art History: Color
If you like purple and other useless words, you’ll hate Suzanne Walker’s upcoming WTF Color lecture on Nov 4th. Active League students attend free, with coupon code (just ask!). $20 for the rest of you. Please let us know you’re attending so we can have a chair for you.
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