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From Tacky Goblin by Sean Steele Daily Drawing, Steele, Tacky, Goblin, Ghost, Drawings, Sketches, Drawing, Portrait

From Tacky Goblin by Sean Steele

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Yellow. Oscar Wilde was arrested outside the Cadogan Hotel in London in April 1895. The following day the Westminster Gazette ran the… London In April, Oscar Wilde, Westminster, Arrest, The Outsiders, Yellow, Draw

London In April

Yellow. Oscar Wilde was arrested outside the Cadogan Hotel in London in April 1895. The following day the Westminster Gazette ran the…

Beige. Beige is boring. From The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair Secret Life, The Secret, Boring, Disney Characters, Fictional Characters, Beige, Disney Princess

Disney Characters

Fictional Characters

Disney Princess

Beige. Beige is boring. From The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair

Chalk. ...chalk has a long history of use in art. The Uffington White Horse, for example, is one of the stylized chalk figures created in Europe during the Late Bronze Age. It still prances high on a hillside on the edge of the Berkshire Downs in southern England. Amid fears that it might be used for target practice by the Luftwaffe, the horse was covered up during the Second World War. When the war was over William Francis Grimes, a Welsh archaeology professor, was charged with disinterring it. Target Practice, White Horse, Bronze Age, Luftwaffe, Hillside, Grimes, World War Two, Welsh

Target Practice

Chalk. ...chalk has a long history of use in art. The Uffington White Horse, for example, is one of the stylized chalk figures created in Europe during the Late Bronze Age. It still prances high on a hillside on the edge of the Berkshire Downs in southern England. Amid fears that it might be used for target practice by the Luftwaffe, the horse was covered up during the Second World War. When the war was over William Francis Grimes, a Welsh archaeology professor, was charged with disinterring it.

Chalk If you were to look at a minute paint sample from an Old Master painting under a microscope, you would likely see something wholly… Things Under A Microscope, Paint Samples, Old Master, Chalk, That Look, Olds, Painting

Things Under A Microscope

Chalk If you were to look at a minute paint sample from an Old Master painting under a microscope, you would likely see something wholly…

Isabelline. The story goes that in 1601 Isabella Clara Eugenia’s husband, Archduke Albert VII of Austria, began the siege of Ostend. Isabella, believing the siege would be short-lived, vowed she would not change or wash her underwear until he won Isabelline is the color the queen's linens had become when the siege finally ended three years later. Luckily for the poor queen, proof that this story is nonsense isn’t difficult to find. From The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Archduke, Ostend, The Siege, Isabelline, Nonsense, Goes, Austria

Isabelline. The story goes that in 1601 Isabella Clara Eugenia’s husband, Archduke Albert VII of Austria, began the siege of Ostend. Isabella, believing the siege would be short-lived, vowed she would not change or wash her underwear until he won Isabelline is the color the queen's linens had become when the siege finally ended three years later. Luckily for the poor queen, proof that this story is nonsense isn’t difficult to find. From The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair.

Whitewash During the English Reformation, churches and parishioners used it (whitewash) to obscure colorful murals and altarpieces that depicted saints in ways they now deemed impious. ( Over the years, as the paint wore thin, the faces began peeking through again.) This practice perhaps explains the origin of the phrase "to whitewash," which means to conceal unpleasant truths, usually political in nature. #dailydrawing #kassiastclair #whitewash #secretlivesofcolour @kassiastclair English Reformation, Secret Live, Whitewash, Unpleasant, Murals, Over The Years, Truths, Practice

English Reformation

Whitewash During the English Reformation, churches and parishioners used it (whitewash) to obscure colorful murals and altarpieces that depicted saints in ways they now deemed impious. ( Over the years, as the paint wore thin, the faces began peeking through again.) This practice perhaps explains the origin of the phrase "to whitewash," which means to conceal unpleasant truths, usually political in nature. #dailydrawing #kassiastclair #whitewash #secretlivesofcolour @kassiastclair

Silver. “To extract silver ore from Cerro Rico, one of the two most profitable mines in their empire, the Spanish exploited indigenous labor. Using a version of the ‘mita’ forced-labor system the Inca had used to build temples and roads, the Spanish insisted locals over the age of 18 put in a year's work for subsistence wages. Accidents and mercury poisoning were common. The Spanish boasted that with the silver extracted from Cerro Rico, they could have built a bridge across the Atlantic back to Mercury Poisoning, Forced Labor, Inca, Temples, Roads, Atlantic, Extract, Profit

Mercury Poisoning

Silver. “To extract silver ore from Cerro Rico, one of the two most profitable mines in their empire, the Spanish exploited indigenous labor. Using a version of the ‘mita’ forced-labor system the Inca had used to build temples and roads, the Spanish insisted locals over the age of 18 put in a year's work for subsistence wages. Accidents and mercury poisoning were common. The Spanish boasted that with the silver extracted from Cerro Rico, they could have built a bridge across the Atlantic back to

Ivory white A bizarre addition to the (ivory) trade comes from an animal that became extinct nine thousand years before the Lewis Chessmen… Nine Thousand, A Thousand Years, Ivory Trade, Chessmen, Ivory White, Extinction, Bizarre, Lewis

A Thousand Years

Ivory white A bizarre addition to the (ivory) trade comes from an animal that became extinct nine thousand years before the Lewis Chessmen…

Ivory white. "In 1831, a farmer on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, discovered treasure that had been hidden in a small stone chamber in a sandbank for 700 years. The hoard consisted of 78 chess pieces from different sets, 14 for a game similar to backgammon, and a belt buckle, The Lewis Chessmen, as they are now known, are mysterious. No one knows who made them, or how they came to be hidden on an obscure island." from The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair Frederick The Great, Outer Hebrides, Isle, Farmer

Frederick The Great

Ivory white. "In 1831, a farmer on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, discovered treasure that had been hidden in a small stone chamber in a sandbank for 700 years. The hoard consisted of 78 chess pieces from different sets, 14 for a game similar to backgammon, and a belt buckle, The Lewis Chessmen, as they are now known, are mysterious. No one knows who made them, or how they came to be hidden on an obscure island." from The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair

Lead white. "In the nineteenth century ladies could still buy any number of lead-based skin brighteners with names like "Laird's Bloom of Youth", "Eugenie's Favourite", or "Ali Ahmed's Treasure of the Desert", even after well-publicized deaths, including that of the British society beauty Maria, the Countess of Coventry." from The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair @kassiastclair Countess, Coventry, Skin Brightening, Be Still, Snow White, Society

Skin Brightening

Lead white. "In the nineteenth century ladies could still buy any number of lead-based skin brighteners with names like "Laird's Bloom of Youth", "Eugenie's Favourite", or "Ali Ahmed's Treasure of the Desert", even after well-publicized deaths, including that of the British society beauty Maria, the Countess of Coventry." from The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair @kassiastclair

White "Like the eponymous albino leviathan of Melville's novel, white has an otherness to it. If colors were people, it would be admired, but it probably wouldn't be popular: it is just too exclusive, autocratic, and neurotic." From "The secret lives of color" by Kassia St. Clair @kassiastclair Neurotic, Leviathan, Albino, Melville, Female Sketch, Novels, Exclusive

White "Like the eponymous albino leviathan of Melville's novel, white has an otherness to it. If colors were people, it would be admired, but it probably wouldn't be popular: it is just too exclusive, autocratic, and neurotic." From "The secret lives of color" by Kassia St. Clair @kassiastclair

Indian Yellow In the 1880s Sir Joseph Hooker, the great peppery Victorian explorer and botanist, decided he needed a more definite answer… Botanist, Hooker, Joseph, Moose Art, Victorian, Greats, Indian, Explore

Indian Yellow In the 1880s Sir Joseph Hooker, the great peppery Victorian explorer and botanist, decided he needed a more definite answer…

Chrome Yellow. Sadly for artists and art lovers alike, chrome yellow has a nasty habit of browning as it ages. Research carried out on Van Gogh's paintings in Amsterdam over the past few years has shown that some of the chrome yellow in the flowers' petals has darkened significantly, due to the reaction of chrome yellow with other pigments in sunlight. Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just as their real-life counterparts did. From The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair Van Gogh Sunflowers, Van Gogh Paintings, Flowers Petals, Browning, Lovers Art, Sunlight, Amsterdam

Van Gogh Sunflowers

Van Gogh Paintings

Chrome Yellow. Sadly for artists and art lovers alike, chrome yellow has a nasty habit of browning as it ages. Research carried out on Van Gogh's paintings in Amsterdam over the past few years has shown that some of the chrome yellow in the flowers' petals has darkened significantly, due to the reaction of chrome yellow with other pigments in sunlight. Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just as their real-life counterparts did. From The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair

Naples yellow. Sometime in the early 1970s a collection of 90 small bottles was discovered in an old German pharmacy near Darmstadt. Some… Small Bottles, Naples, Pharmacy, 1970s, German, Early, Discover

Naples yellow. Sometime in the early 1970s a collection of 90 small bottles was discovered in an old German pharmacy near Darmstadt. Some…

Acid Yellow. The origins of the crude design (of the original smiley) - a perfect bright yellow circle outlined with black, two small lines for eyes, and a semicircular mouth - are contested. A crude smiley appeared in an American television program in 1963; two brothers in Philadelphia printed a similar design on badges some 50 million of which had been sold by 1972. From The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Circle Outline, Two Brothers, Television Program, Crude, Bright Yellow, Smiley, Emoticon

Television Program

Acid Yellow. The origins of the crude design (of the original smiley) - a perfect bright yellow circle outlined with black, two small lines for eyes, and a semicircular mouth - are contested. A crude smiley appeared in an American television program in 1963; two brothers in Philadelphia printed a similar design on badges some 50 million of which had been sold by 1972. From The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair.

Orpiment In his Il Libro dell'arte, Cennino Cennini writes that orpiment is "made by alchemy. It is true that by the early Renaissance… Alchemy, Renaissance, Made, Writing, Instagram

Orpiment In his Il Libro dell'arte, Cennino Cennini writes that orpiment is "made by alchemy. It is true that by the early Renaissance…

Gold. Cloth of gold-fabric woven from threads with a core of silk or linen wrapped in gold-had been around since Roman times and was… Gold Fabric, Woven Fabric, Silk Sheets, Silk Outfit, Great Night, Roman, Core, Thread

Gold. Cloth of gold-fabric woven from threads with a core of silk or linen wrapped in gold-had been around since Roman times and was…

Orange. ...There is no denying orange's air of braggadocio. Godey's Lady's book pronounced it "too brilliant to be elegant" in 1855. Anthony Burgess might be thinking the same thing when he named his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange in 1962. (He gave several explanations for the title during his lifetime : once saying he had overheard the phrase "as queer as a clockwork orange" in an East End pub; on another occasion implying it was a metaphor of his own making). From The Secret Lives of Color Anthony Burgess, Clockwork Orange, Metaphor, Queer, Pub, Lifetime, Brilliant

Anthony Burgess

Clockwork Orange

Orange. ...There is no denying orange's air of braggadocio. Godey's Lady's book pronounced it "too brilliant to be elegant" in 1855. Anthony Burgess might be thinking the same thing when he named his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange in 1962. (He gave several explanations for the title during his lifetime : once saying he had overheard the phrase "as queer as a clockwork orange" in an East End pub; on another occasion implying it was a metaphor of his own making). From The Secret Lives of Color

Dutch Orange. The Legacy of WIlliam I may not have given the Dutch a permanent foothold in the New World, but it has given them the gift… New World, Legacy, Dutch, Williams, Gifts, Presents

Dutch Orange. The Legacy of WIlliam I may not have given the Dutch a permanent foothold in the New World, but it has given them the gift…

Dutch Orange Balthasar Gerard was the Lee Harvey Oswald of his day. On July 10, 1584, he entered The Prinsenhof, the royal residence of the Dutch Rulers, and fired his pistol three times into the chest of William I, Prince of Orange, who prayed for mercy for the Dutch people and then died. From the Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair. Prince Of Orange, Dutch People, Art And Literature, Royal Residence, July 10, Living In New York, He Day

Prince Of Orange

Art And Literature

Royal Residence

Living In New York

Dutch Orange Balthasar Gerard was the Lee Harvey Oswald of his day. On July 10, 1584, he entered The Prinsenhof, the royal residence of the Dutch Rulers, and fired his pistol three times into the chest of William I, Prince of Orange, who prayed for mercy for the Dutch people and then died. From the Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair.

Saffron. No one knows quite when or where Crocus sativus was first cultivated - the flowers are actually sterile and so can't grow in the… Sterile, Crocus, Saffron, Growing, Wild, Canning

Saffron. No one knows quite when or where Crocus sativus was first cultivated - the flowers are actually sterile and so can't grow in the…

The Etruscans and Romans loved it, despite the belief of one Roman historian that amber, which he called lyncurius, was made from dried… Roman Love, Lynx, Historian, Romans, Beliefs, Amber, Dried

The Etruscans and Romans loved it, despite the belief of one Roman historian that amber, which he called lyncurius, was made from dried…

Ginger. King Henry VIII, however, rarely noted for his sweetness of temper, was definitely readheaded. In 1515, when the king was 24 years… Bed Hair, Aleve, King Henry Viii, 24 Years, Temper, Definitions, Ginger

King Henry Viii

Ginger. King Henry VIII, however, rarely noted for his sweetness of temper, was definitely readheaded. In 1515, when the king was 24 years…

Minium. The production of manuscript required a precise division of labor. First, scribes would have copied the text, carefully leaving… Sketch Book, Scribe, Manuscript, Division, Labor, Illustration, Texts, Leaves

Minium. The production of manuscript required a precise division of labor. First, scribes would have copied the text, carefully leaving…