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Blue Stone Kanji
Blue of Land, Blue of Sea
The colors on Spittal’s beach are plenty, but soft and gentle like a tweed fabric. When one looks carefully all the colors of the rainbow are able to be found. Here, the sea’s shell and a well-worn pebble are each quite blue. It almost seems as if they have sought one another out in the sand.
Blue Pebble, Sprouted
The pebbles on this area of the Northumberland coast are all beautifully multi-colored, like the shades in a lovely, soft tweed. Every color in the rainbow is present, delicate and muted. This one pebble, though, stood apart as a more vivid blue. Perhaps it is the seaweed beside it in this still life that brings out the blue.
Halted
No place to go, so they might as well pose for my camera.
Blue, Green, Yellow, White, Yellow
The colors came second, after noticing this remarkable arrangement on the tide line.
Two nearly identical shell fragments. A parallel arrangement. Two pebbles, autumn colors. One brilliant blue coquina. There are many stories here. >
Oh! The Blue!
It is not clear whether the clam shell had blue in it, or whether it was reflecting the whelk fragment. Whatever the case, this still life was a burst of color on a very grey beach.
Swirl in Sand
Again, I am amazed by the random juxtaposition of complementary colors on the tide line. This very tiny little peach shell with the piece of purple-blue coquina is just perfect. The gentle swirls of the shell add a lovely textural … Continue reading
Complementary in Many Ways
The placement of the shells, but even more so the colors of these shells make them complementary. The orange of the jingle shell beside the blue of the mussel would almost be directly across from one another on a color … Continue reading
“Pied Beauty”: For My Brothers
Pied Beauty By Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – … Continue reading
Tide Line Still Life 