Jun 30, 2022
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 28, 2022
This June is all Purples & Violets and every hue in between. Every UArt store has displays showcasing products, information and art supplies featuring this celebrated color range in different ways: pens, pencils, oils, acrylics, watercolor, pastels,...
Apr 25, 2022
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 31, 2022
Now here’s a color to cheer you up! The word yellow comes from the Old English word “geolu.” Yellow is the most luminous of all the colors of the spectrum. It’s the color that captures our attention more than any other color. In the natural...
Feb 28, 2022
UArt Redwood City Fun Fact: at the bottom of this post are links to Kermit the Frog’s song, “It’s Not Easy ‘Bein Green” : ) This March UArt stores are Exploring GREEN! Check out the GREEN display at your local UArt...
Jan 26, 2022
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...