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Using more than one word, what is your favourite colour? (PICS)

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Olulabelle

22:02 / 28.02.06

I've been thinking about colour because I am using colour pastes in resin casting for jewellery, to create feelings or senses.

I asked the question 'what is your favourite colour?' to a few friends and the answer I got from Nina was:

The colour that the sea is when you're on a ferry in the middle of nowhere.

So if you would normally say red, then tell me what red, the exact red in your head. A proper depiction of it.

Another way to do it is to tell me where it exists;

Mixmage said: It exists just at the edge of dawn between the dark of the night sky and the blue of the morning, but it doesn't always happen because of the yellow of the sun.

These are both perfect, exactly the kind of answers I want.

Your go?

Bubblegum Death

22:53 / 28.02.06

The color of pine needles before their descent into death.

Sorry, but I'm not very good at stuff like this.

Ganesh

23:00 / 28.02.06

Purple. Rich, royal, not-too-red-not-too-blue purple. I've just ordered a passiflora called 'Temptation' which is almost my purple, particularly in the near-the-centre shadows behind the frilly bits. A few shades darker, maybe a bit more jewel-like, and we'd be there.

Leading you into 'Temptation':

Less searchable M0rd4nt

00:32 / 01.03.06

ZOMG flower pr0n!

Smalt is the word for blue glass, the colour of blue glass dyed with cobalt. My favourite colour is not exactly smalt. It exists in the thick purplish deeps of that blue glass. It lives in the angle between the base of the bottle and the wall; not so much the mineral-water bottles that are sold now, but in the bottles used to contain poisons once upon a time. It lives in the heart of the giant glass marble that cost far too much of your pocket-money but which you couldn't pass up and spent ages staring into, enraptured. It lives in the robes of saints and angels, poised in tiny arched windows, obscuring yew-trees and grassy mounds. It lives in god's-eyes and witch-bottles, wherever there is glass blue enough and thick enough to carry it.

Most glass isn't. Most blue glass just wishes it was my favourite colour.

grant

02:13 / 01.03.06

My favorite color is made when the sun shines through the leaves of a dense deciduous forest, when you are cool in the shade but you know that the next hillside clearing will be warm enough to make the sweat trickle into your eyes when you drink from the bottle at your hip.

Mistoffelees

08:23 / 01.03.06

My favourite colour is a rich deep blue (azur?). You can see it, if you lie down on a sunny day, and look at the cloudless sky. Kind of looks like this:

Sax

08:31 / 01.03.06

At dusk on the beaches of Goa the sea gets a little reddish-pink tinge that glows with a fairly eerie yellow phosphorescence. When the last rays of the sun are on the horizon and a very thin wave rushes back off the sand, it creates a very pleasing hue indeed.

nameinuse

10:39 / 01.03.06

This isn't too disimilar from other people's posts (and even one of your examples, Lula), but subtley different to warrant a mention, I think.

It's the colour you get with a cloudless sunset, after the sun has dipped below the horizon, and you're looking in the opposite direction. It's just light enough that you can't see stars there, but only just. It's such a limpid, dark, infinite blue that the colours on the ground seem flat and dull in comparison.

I think it might be the same blue other people have described, just darker. The dawn blue is different, though. It's softer and cleaner than then intensity of the sunset colour. What is it about blue, though?

pointless & uncalled for

11:37 / 01.03.06

Right now my favourite color is black. Not just any black mind, the black that you get when a photograph has been taken on black and white film of some rich blue sky through a red filter and then printed on matt paper. Ideally there should be rich, deep grain that peters out towards a horizon or is interupted by altocumulus.

The Strobe

11:42 / 01.03.06

International Klein Blue.

I can't really post a picture here, because it doesn't look right on a monitor. You don't get the richness, the internal reflection and refraction that the layers and layers of oil paint stack up to. You get a shade of blue, instead of this overpowering dense mass of blue.

I have many favourite ranges of colours or shades, but my favourite single, identifiable colour has to be IKB. It really did blow me away when I saw it hanging on a wall in France.

Olulabelle

19:24 / 01.03.06

These are lovely, thank you. Lots of that vivid blue here, I wonder what it is about that particular blue?

I think I know your purple Ganesh, it is wonderful.

Any more from anyone? Please?

ibis the being

19:44 / 01.03.06

Hm, are you asking us to think first of our favorite color in the abstract sense, and then a corresponding description of the color in a physical context? Or are you asking for a favorite color specifically tied to its context in life? I suspect you'd answer either/both... my answer would not be the same for each.

By the first definition, it's the color of a new leaf, a young shoot on, oh I don't know, a maple tree.

By the second, it's the glossy, soft black of my dog's fur in sunlight.

Aertho

20:01 / 01.03.06

I can't say this is my favourite colour, but it's one I lust for, or rather, quest for. In my mind, I can seem to remember a vibrant, almost flourescent colour that's too orange to be called pink, and much too pink to be an orange. One tries in vain to call it "melon", but it's a dull description. Imagine halving a grapefruit, and finding its interior to be radioactive.

As an artist, colour is a BIG deal, and several colors that feel real and exciting are only visible, or only imaginary. The Pantone Matching System, though helpful, has a very limiting effect on selection. Similar to the limitations of language, colors found in nature can almost never be found on the page.

Dead Megatron

20:06 / 01.03.06

My favourite colour is a rich deep blue (azur?).

Isn't that what they call indigo?

As for me, my favorite color in more than one word?

"Not brown", that's for sure.

I like the combination of black and gold, though. it strikes me as being noble and heavenly, and, at the same time, misterious and kinda hellish. Mighty cool.

Sekhmet

20:24 / 01.03.06

Mine is a deep, vivid but rather dark green - the color of a nice thick bed of rock moss on a stone wall, when the weather has been damp and foggy all day, but the sun appears in late afternoon and light makes everything look sharp and fresh and hyper-real.

Funny, I've got atmospheric associations, terrain, and a smell associated with the color I'm talking about. If I was to paint it I'd have to call it Petrichor in the East of Ireland, I think.

Mistoffelees

21:16 / 01.03.06

Isn't that what they call indigo?

No. Indigo is the result of purple plus blue.

Gendudehashadenough

22:32 / 01.03.06

Great topic.

I'd have to say that the most enrapturing color for me is the color of the sun shinning through the water in a black/blue bottomed pool, so that the stripes that are reflected off the pool floor shine like a yellowed-indigo or turquiose. The light almost looks yellow, but with the chemicals (sure) in the pool and the color of the bottom it appears to to be a beyond-shiny off-white.

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

13:01 / 02.03.06

Ultraviolet. You can't really see it...but somehow you know it's there, and it hurts my eyes.

It's in that purple flower up above; lots of flowers use ultraviolet to summon bees and things that can see it. And of course spectrally the really weird purples are pretty close to ultraviolet anyway.

It's also the color of my tattoo, sort of, which can only be seen under black light. Kind of gimmicky but still cool.

Katherine

16:58 / 02.03.06

Inky dark blue which is the sky at midnight with only the moon and stars lifting the veil of the flowing black.

Shrug

17:02 / 02.03.06

Pale blue; an unarresting colour that slips from the memory like a morning-lost dream of flying.

Olulabelle

20:06 / 02.03.06

I'm intrigued and fascinated by all this blue. I wonder what it is about us that makes people like shades of blue so much?

Shrug

23:26 / 02.03.06

Well, the very obvious reason might be the calming, meditative effect of blue. Is there much more to it than that? I could niether commit nor admit to a constant liking of green as sometimes I feel it to be a bit obtrusive. (Although I do like it quite a bit.)

However my own choice was made when I considered what colour I could stand to stare at solidly for a twenty four hour period. If I hadn't adapted this bizarre criterion my choice would've been a little bolder, perhaps.

Olulabelle

00:08 / 03.03.06

This is from Puck, posting on my computer:

It's black. I don't want to be all Goth about it, but black is the touchstone of all the colours. It's the base, the colour that all others refer to, both cool and mysterious, style will always defer to the older brother of all colours. Slimming and by default cool. Black is the coulour of my closed insomniac eyes, what my craven desperate drunk eyes consider its peak. Black is the oblivion of unconsiousness, the gift of Dionysus. My only time of rest.

Triumvir

00:17 / 03.03.06

Infra-red. Although I have never seen it an in all likelyhood never will, just the thought of a completely new color, one that before seeing, I never could have imagined ever existed, just makes me smile.

Thaddeus "B." Glands

02:50 / 03.03.06

The colour of a bright green neon light as seen through the fog.

Katherine

04:16 / 03.03.06

I'm intrigued and fascinated by all this blue. I wonder what it is about us that makes people like shades of blue so much?

Not sure but it was either that shade of blue or the colour of freshly dripping blood from a cut, that clear yet incrediably intense deep shade of claret.

I think I went with the blue because it was the safe option of the two.

slinky

09:13 / 03.03.06

my favourite colour is the colour of serenity.

What, pale pink?

Deep green; the colour of plant-blood, the colour I think about whenever I think about the air being pumped in and out of planetary lungs, chlorophyl green.

Tryphena Absent

09:55 / 03.03.06

my favourite colour is the colour of serenity.

you can't take the sky from me...

Mistoffelees

10:20 / 03.03.06

River can kiss me with her brain!

slinky

10:58 / 03.03.06

well, i guess serenity is more of a sensation, but when you look at several scenarios, like all of the abovementioned, there is always a feeling of peace associated. i like lots of colours. 'serenity' seemed to be the best way to sum them up.

ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!

21:10 / 05.03.06

There's a little art gallery in Freiburg.
Go upstairs, through the centre doors, and turn left.

In the room with smoke made out of wool, there's a canvas on the wall which is green.

The green is pretty well indescribable, but I will try:

It's a dark, elemental green, whilst still being very bright, and full of light. It's like a hologram of a flat object, embedded in another flat object, if that makes any sense. It's 2mm deep, but it goes in forever.

Oh, you know those sunstones which have little shiny red/white sparkles embedded in a clear matrix? It's like that, only green, and there's no actual depth, it just looks like it.

I really wish I'd written down the name of the painting and its artist.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:22 / 05.03.06

The kind of black that only exists in dogs' fur when the light's on it and it's all scrunched up, and defines perimeters, like round the ears, or where the shoulderblades are. Theoretically, it should be grey, or shiny black, but it isn't. It's something else. And it's ace.

Olulabelle

21:23 / 05.03.06

Red Frog Rising, I do too. I want to see.

So blue and green then. And also blood red. These are fairly primal colours wouldn't you say? It's interesting that the three main colours people reference cross every difference in human beings. We all know the same sky (blue)and sea (blue), we all know the same new growth (green) and we all bleed red, no matter who we are or where we live, or what colour our skin or what sex we are.

RGB.

Not CMYK.

I started this thread to get colour ideas and it's made me start to think much more deeply about colour and our human relationship to colour.

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