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Art supply shopping is one of my least familiar daily endeavors. Searching for paints teaches me that this is not an exact science. The patience that it takes to creat a work of art must either be agonizing or a calling by a higher authority because painting this wheel and value chart are working on my nerves. Nothing ventured, nothing gained so with that being said I’ve learned to work with pencil,paint,erasers, my fingers and tissue. The difference between colors of the prism and pigments is something to experience,we often take it for granted.

This has been a journey to the wire to get the two links submitted. I started out as RobertBarksdale.blogspot and I do believe that I am parading around as Square1,I think. I do understand the journey of June, the painter in Venice who knew that she was in the ballpark but that something just was not right. That is how I have been feeling for a while now,less than seven days but more than one. Well it is almost midnight so here is one last shot. For the true sisypheans.

     The effect on emotions in the reading and videos confirmed some of the ideals that I had already formed about colors such as blue and green whose hues are more connected to calmness and nature, while red, orange and yellow are more associated with heat,rage and excitement. I think that a lot of our understanding of colors is socialized and taught. Some colors are perceived as feminine such as pink while others are more foreboding like purple and darker tints while others are meant to warn of danger as red does.      The effects of color and simultaneous contrast when complimentary colors are stared at for a prolonged period of time and fatigue the eye receptors, resulting in an afterimage where the colors seem to switch. The working of the eye and how it processes light is a mystery that man has only just began to understand.      Mark Rothko in his attempt to disturb the psyche and atmosphere for patrons in a certain eatery used the colors crimson and maroon exclusively with hi