VERVE GARDEN CONVERSATIONS with yellow green
Color Story, Signature Color, Family and Friends......................................................2-7 Image Research.........................................................8-11 Color Inspirations................................................. 12-25 Harmonies................................................................ 26-33 Textures..................................................................... 34-41 Patterns...................................................................... 42-49 Exercises.................................................................... 50-59 Conclusion................................................................ 60-61
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GAR conversations Color Story Verve Yellow Green
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Yellow Green, in all its shades, tints, and pastels, converses with every color in the garden, playing a defining and supportive role throughout the landscape. Yellow Green is there in intimate moments; It’s there when the sun streaks through the leaves and warms our shoulders. It joins us in relaxing,
DEN conversations inspirational and easy discussions. It is always a collaborator, and an initiator of repose.
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Yellow Green is synonymous with activity. A garden and its conversations, are created by energy and striving. It’s digging, it’s bending, it’s planting and it’s glee when you pull the first stringy, ferny Yellow Green leaves of a carrot from the ground. Yellow Green is for the uplifting market, for the person seeking inspiration, the active individual with a quick mind, and a desire to do good, do well and do something. Optimism, life, and a foundation for all things beautiful. We can not live without Yellow Green. Now let’s honor Yellow Green with all its elegance in all applications.
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VER Signature Color Verve Yellow Green
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Verve is the name given to the signature color yellow green. It’s enthusiasm, energy, spirit, vitality; liveliness. It’s dash, pep, sparkle, zip, animation, vigour, zeal, and gusto!
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Velvet
Shadow
Brassy
Verve
Tangy
Witty
Yellow Green and its glorious shades, tints and pastels are excellent companions, and independent souls.
Sway
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Yellow Green is life affirming.
Expectant
Softly
Wise
Whisper
Subtle
Silence
Innocence
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Image Research
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I will live with you now forever. Jaune Vert “Verve” - my old friend Yellow Green. Vibrancy, Liveliness, Loyal - Always There. Even in your shadowy tones you exemplify the perfect backdrop for all others to rise up and shout their hue. Jaune Vert “Verve” you are a comrade to all the rainbow families never overpowering or effecting anothers radiance, you are comfortable - a friend to all. In your highest mood you cheer us all up sometimes shocking us into action. No one of us can take umbrage with your bold, pure self confidence, nor refuse a dance at the landscape ball. Your enthusiasm for life’s energy - bursts forth at the edges and breaks through boundaries, sustaining life for all. Even when occasionally camouflaged you find a perfect companion to converse with, listen to and share space. Please excuse my poor, ignorant self if I’ve dismissed you, taken you for granted, or simply ignored your presence. I will forever be indebted to you for your optimism, peaceful awareness, and graceful impact wherever you may lie.
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Color Inspirations
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NAT Chlorophyll is the green pigment found in almost all plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. Its name is derived from the Greek (chloros “green”) and (phyllon “leaf ”). Chlorophyll absorbs light most strongly in the blue portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, followed by the red portion. However, it is a poor absorber of green and near-green portions of the spectrum, hence the green color of chlorophyll-containing tissues.
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Chlorophyll is vital for photosynthesis, which allows plants to
URE obtain energy from light. Photosynthesis is vital to life.
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Supportive, companion, always a friend whether in its purely saturated glory, or most shaded moment
Yellow Green acts as the greatest of diplomats. It is the consensus builder of the garden.
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Yellow Green penetrates daily life on so many levels. On subway tiles and LED signage, backing of a restaurant sign, the menu boards on the street vendor trucks. The garbage
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at the stores in the candy aisles. The chrome plate and recycling buckets. I see Yellow Green everywhere....
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Hungry for something good, and good for you. Yellow Green is found among the healthiest foods at the grocery store. Vegetables, Fruits, and herbs are abundant with the nutrient rich Yellow Green leaves, skin, and flesh.
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Take a bite from the good life!
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Yellow Green, especially the shades and pastels, are so rich and elegant. Having spent most of my life calling everything green, I never acknowledged the role of Yellow Green in fashion. I’ve gained such an appreciation
WEA A for the its diversity.
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Would you dare wear Yellow
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Green at its most saturated, Verve,? I had a long down winter coat in the color Verve. I didn’t appreciate it then as much as I would now. You can see me in it in this collage. We were at Obama’s Inauguration - seems so long ago. Notice the Red Violet Scarf. Wish I kept the coat cleaner.......maybe I’ll dig it out.
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T Yellow Green, Chartreuse, Lime Green, Jaune Vert, Verve - whatever name fits - Yellow Green’s place on the painter’s palette can not be overstated. Warmed to a neon state, a field of wheat as the sun lies across the foreground, landscapes from all times, a robe, a background wall, even the skin tones. Yellow Green is a prerequisite for life and art.
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Harmonies
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COM PLEM ENT Harmonies
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Oww, Shocking - Yellow Green and Red Violet. That’s what
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you two are when you team up. Hmmm......I am amazed at how well you play together in the garden. Who would’ve known that two opposites could be such good friends. Is there more to your relationship than meets the eye? Yes, I am being cheeky........ ;-)
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There was a time when I could hardly tell you apart from your extended family. Or was it that I didn’t bother to distinguish you from your neighbors. There are so many differences. I was given the hints. The bluer side of green and the warmer moods of yellow are quite another story from your sharp, sophisticated approach to life.
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NEU Harmonies Verve Yellow Green
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TRAL Gosh, How I enjoy you in your neutral state. You are so stately, so elegant,
so much in charge. Yet so ready to let others be the star. Simply, pleasing to the eye!
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Textures
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TRA NS CEN Textures
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Dewy leaves in the early morning spring, dappled light seeping through a brisk fall walk, fluorescent sea grass in a summer ocean pool. Wet, translucent. Yellow Green, moist to the glance, cool to touch, refreshingly transparent to the soul.
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BARK ROU Textures Verve Yellow Green
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Rub your hands across the tree’s trunk - try it. Feel the grooves the contrasting of smoothness and roughness. Really step on those dried leaves under your feet, crunch......crunch.......crunch.... Oh how I am reminded of the change of season, the impending hibernation. Stop. Embrace each season. The Yellow Green colors, no longer so saturated, fade into the shade of the sun’s winter cast.
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DIMP DOTS LINES Textures Verve Yellow Green
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So imperfect are some surfaces of Yellow Green. How marvelous in their imperfections. Fun, silly, Stripes, dimples, and dots. Not what you would expect. You will always find a surprise if you look closely at nature’s details. Go on and take a close look. There is no better artist, magician, muse than nature - none.
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Patterns
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SCRI Patterns Verve Yellow Green
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Lines in nature, marks, hairs, veins on the leaves, the stalks of plants. Lines and scribbles all over the garden,. Scribble, scribble, scribble........line becomes form. I love a good scribble.
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Radial designs are all around the garden. So feminine, so much movement. My eye moves over the whole garden - the petals, the leaves, the stems, the edges. Round and round and round we go where we end up........ will be beautiful.........
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Patterns
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I love it when out of chaos comes something gorgeous - exciting and dynamic.
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Exercises
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Jazzy Study Verve Yellow Green
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Analogous Study Verve Yellow Green
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Color Wheel Verve Yellow Green
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Complimentary Verve Yellow Green
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Tint Mixing Verve Yellow Green
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Transparency Verve Yellow Green
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I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the class for their feedback and critiques. Especially those that challenged me to think about my theme. It was a turning point, and helped me to stay true to my voice. Thank you, Kelly
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The semester is almost over. Unbelievable. I enjoyed this class very much, and the exploration of Yellow Green. It drove home just how much I took Yellow Green for granted, and reinforced how very lucky I am to have so much of it in my daily life. The class quantified what I’ve been exploring for a number of years. It gifted me with a greater appreciation for our garden, nature, and my life. It seems silly now, but I never really thought so much about the nuances of Yellow Green, and in fact have often looked at the color as “green”. Now I spend time really seeing it. What is it mixed with? Which way does it lean? Is it more a yellow? Yellow Green? Does it have too much blue in it? More green? Does it contain its compliment? Is it a neutral. For these reasons and more my studies with coloraid in nature was such a wonderful exercise. What I’ve written within these pages is true to heart. I’ve gained a greater appreciation and a deeper understanding of my color, Yellow Green. I am inspired to consciously explore the concepts I’ve learned in this class in my paintings, designs, and with all the colors on the color wheel.
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