Jun 22, 2020
Blue is the color of the sky and water, making blue one of the most widely seen colors on the planet. It’s no wonder that blue has been a perennially favorite color. Even so, much of the science and history of blue is surprising. Sight is integral to the human...
May 31, 2020
This June we’ll be be exploring the hues Violet and Purple. (Did you know that “purple” is one of three words that has no rhyme? The others, interestingly enough, are colors too: orange and silver!) Often associated with royalty, power and wealth for...
Apr 30, 2020
Pink has always been a spectacular contradiction. It’s simultaneously fresh-faced and sophisticated, alien (a 17th-century Chinese word for pink meant “foreign color”) and internal (from our mouths to musculature), and at home in both high and low culture. In Japan,...
Mar 1, 2020
Exploring the Lushness of Green… March is all about the Green…check out all of the paints, papers, products, toys and gifts in this upbeat hue, and ask all of theenvironmentally friendly productsin store. Get your Green on! This month we...
Jan 21, 2020
See our RED store windows at bottom of post!Red “is the archetypal color, the first color humans mastered, fabricated, reproduced, and broke down into different shades.” As such, it dominated visual culture for centuries. With the advent of the Protestant Reformation,...