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Submitted by Magicaddict (View user info) at 2005-07-17 17:58:39 EDT
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Hold on a second...
...oh, yes.
I'm going to have to think about this - to consider every concept before I begin. I have to think about how I can put it all together - to work with so many colours - and how to make them all work in harmony. The design will need to be completely finalised before I even touch brush to canvas, but I can see...yes, this is going to be an absolute sensation if I get it right.
This is the kind of idea you have once in a lifetime.
I'll start it simply, with the most basic, simple pair of colours: Black and white - the two shades that encompass all others, keeping them all in check. I'll pattern them...yes, like that. That keeps them in the same field of vision, but nicely discrete from one another...yes, that's good.
Right - now for everything else. Breathe. Add them methodically and get them right - first the cardinal ones, then their subsidiaries. Stay calm and design it well - you have all the time in the world.
Blue - I always liked it so I'll bring it in first.
It can be so many things: A breath of wind, a rushing river or peaceful lake, rich and experienced love, melancholy sadness, drifting reflection, deepest sumptuous pleasure or ice-cold anger. There isn't much it can't do in some shade or another.
Add it judiciously - why not? You like it. Some into the pattern here, some there - blending in places, gaps in others. Yes, I'm liking that as well.
Next up...yes. Green - the colour of life in its most unadulterated forms. A flood of pure existence, but also serenity, a breath of spring, nature's very spirit harnessed...the list is endless. Above all, however, an overriding sense of powerful, living calm - the archetypal verdant force. It'll be the perfect counterpoint to the equally multinatured blue - in the gaps, blending them together and providing both compliments and contrast. I'll put some here and...yes, here as well. That works too.
This is taking shape nicely, but I'm lacking the more serious contrasts - the green and blue are at their best on the white parts and I need something on the black that can be just as striking.
Come on. You know what you're aiming for, so do it - red and yellow.
Red. Ah, emotion at its most passionate - flames and obsession, forged of anger or lust, and needing to be either controlled or tempered with something equally as powerful. I can't let the red overthrow the rest of the piece - I need to find a way of guiding it without taking away from everything it can be.
Add the yellow, not so much of a calming influence as the green - more of a temper to green's mediator. The most brilliant parts of a flame, the shine of purest gold, the brazen soprano to red's baritone - let the two mix together, work with each other...let them create...
There, and let them be at their most vigorous - raging vermilion and exploding sunburst rather than poppy and cornfield. Yes - the red still screams out with all of its power, but it is directed and driven by its partner. Magnificent - let the pair of them form the beacons of...well, if not white...then light, in the blackness.
Good so far - we have our radiance in the light and our brilliant fires in the darkness. What now? I have so many colours left.
I made large, sweeping statements before - it's time to go into more detail.
The bright colours - with all the vibrancy of the cardinal ones but with so much more diversity: the purples, jades, oranges, and all the other intermediates with strong colour - put them here and there among the green and blue, and let them go...everywhere. Take the cooler versions of them as well - lilacs, aquas, the freshness of all types of citrus - and add another magnitude to the number of colours. Put the influences of white and black into it as well - another magnitude.
Such diversity, such...variety! I could make a million different shades, and put them all in one position or another, and most unbelievable of all...there is nothing out of place! The ideas are flowing into the design almost faster than I can think them - no; don't stop, whatever you do. This is a creativity session that comes along once in SEVERAL lifetimes. Here, a combination of dusty ochres and umbers, there a selection of mauves and maroons...
Breathe again. Calm.
The design is almost complete, but still, there is something missing. I need something to finish - to balance the cornucopia of colours. I need something subtle.
What do I have left? Various shades of white tinged with red - the very subdued, almost neutral versions of it - some of the paler olives and their associated yellows, and a smattering of shades of brown. This might not be quite as easy to finalise as I first...
...hold on again...
...put some there, some here, fill up the gaps...
...now that, I out and out do not believe.
It fits - all of it. The subtle shades bind everything else together. They permeate all the other colours, contrasting here, complimenting there, balancing everywhere. The tears are welling in my eyes and I don't care - I will produce a work of art using every colour in existence, and while it will be a deeply emotional journey over the few days I'll need to complete it, it will without a doubt be the most physically easiest piece to produce I will ever have had the honour of being associated with. It will not be like creating painted art, but more like sculpture as produced by the very finest at their craft - the painting is already in the canvas, and all I have to do is remove that which is hiding it. I won't get anything wrong, I won't put anything out of place - this is far too important and I know too much what I'm doing.
Right now I'm looking at a blank canvas - but give me six nights, and I'll create heaven and earth.
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