Posted: September 19, 2016
For the next week or so, I am pleased to present a
series, Color. During this run I will be
educating readers on facts about color that are not commonly known.
Most of the population learn the rainbow when they are
toddlers, and never concern themselves to know more. Parents are always quizzing their young
children on what the color of grass or sky is.
Sadly, unless the child takes art classes, the lessons stop there.
Some careers are focused solely on the topic at hand,
such as painters (artistic and non-artistic), interior designers, fashion
designers, landscapers, hairdressers, and the list could go on. It often becomes second nature to them.
I would like to go beyond the basic red, blue, yellow,
green, orange, purple, brown, pink, white, and black. Look forward to learning how the colors were
named, their history, how history has been effected by the use of colors,
changes to colors in the future, and much more.
This topic is very dear to my heart, because of all the
research I have done on the topic and I still have much to learn. You may ask, why a writer, who sees only in
black and white, would be so obsessed with color. The obvious is answer is because a good
writer should be able paint a picture in the reader’s mind of the scene. Clearly colors also sets a mood, allowing the
writer to push a feeling into the reader’s heart. The reason why I have dived deeply on the
subject is for plot purposes, which hopefully in the not so distant future, you
will read about in a novel written by yours truly.
So please come back all week to learn something new on a
subject you have known all your life.
I want to apologize to any readers who are protanopia,
deuteranopia, tritanopia, or monochromatism contestants. Please still hang in there, you might learn
something too. If you are unsure what
these terms mean, return to find out.
-Beck
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