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looking for a certain ….ivoryyellowglow

so…here is what came out of that first soak.  the strip on the right is a redye of something i can't remember what caused it.  i really, as in REALLY, need to take pics for better reference.

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if my kids were to look here, they would get an Oh, no, feeling.  i spent years in Ann Arbor house painting and repainting the kitchen trying to find a color of the inside of a conch shell.  all i ever managed was variations of a kind of bubble gum.   and in noticing what i wrote in the Title box,

it's the glow

that i'm wanting i think, in both cases…and the glow occurs maybe only in the conversation between the Light, the color, and the eye that is staring???? 

 

 

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  1. jude Avatar
    jude

    the re/dye offers so much really too. i am redyeing everything to suit my current needs. in this way you can just change what you have any time. and these colors grace. they are so necessary for you. you live there.

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  2. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    this is suddenly growing . i had a very vague
    idea it might be happening, but oh, now i feel it getting
    stronger and stronger. Diaries cloth is down from the wall and i am staring at IT….thinking, how does all this go together somehow?
    the plot thickens…………

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  3. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    Oh I TOTALLY get the search for the perfect color thing! Folks tease me a LOT cause I have painted every wall in the house with colors I love save my bedroom and office area upstairs. I am searching for that PERFECT healing green garden color, not too acidic, goes well with views of hemlocks outside…. and let’s not even mention the number of sample colors I have now in trying to find a warm off-white with a touch of yellow-orange for the studio! I think I’ve landed for that one.
    The GLOW you wanted on a wall could come from a color wash. I’ve seen just what you were looking for with a combination of a mellow, white-violet underpainting with a color wash on top of yellow gold with pearlesence in it. That’s an additive to paint that has mica in it so it is light refracting and
    adds metalic shine. Not sure that would give you the conch shell exactly, but it does give a glow. I’m sure one can find the combination of layers to produce the conch shell. Its cool, do you know it? You can buy both the powder or paint that has it in it. Mostly acrylic though, so for walls I guess one has to add powder.
    Anyway, back to your CLOTH – I really like how the cloth colors mimic the dry land environment. I guess its a piggy back on what Jude says.

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    The bath did a lot of good work–and the luminescence, that glow under all is the endless search painters know. I’m on the run to a tedious job but I’ll be back later to follow this thread, and I’m making a package to send you some glowing golden material in the so slow snail mail. I don’t have much yellow thread though. In the meantime, just for the back light effect–try hanging this one over the window and take another picture. It might tell you something interesting.

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  5. deb Avatar
    deb

    yours was a perfect description of the glow. I used to think it could only come with layering transparents with a light from behind but once or twice I’ve found it where one color sneaks up on another in the dye bath. sometimes a glowing frontier, these are the ones I cannot cut into.

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  6. Penny B Avatar
    Penny B

    Makes me think of those canyon walls.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    when i painted the faces/masks of the “dolls”, i put
    mica in the paint. love mica, yes.
    and yes, back to cloth, i almost ran off the road 3 times
    today looking at ochres …………. they are
    EVERYWHERE out there…..i had not SEEN that????????????????

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    Michelle, keep your glowing gold for your own work…
    you will need it…my experiments are going well. will
    put some pics tomorrow if i can or Thurs for sure.
    thank you so much for offering though.
    xoxo

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    one color sneaking up on another….yes, that is the
    way they would do.
    that center panel of your cloth in the Diaries cloth
    is that glowing frontier exactly….i was thinking of
    that after reading this this morning.

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    i can’t wait until it’s dry again, or dry enough to
    really get back there. i will be seeing them in a
    different way this time and too, as the warmer months
    Sun moves through them, they change. maybe i can
    learn from just sitting there a full day…..

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  11. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    That’s really cool – not that you almost ran off the road- but that your creative process is inviting you to SEE in a new way, something you’ve lived around you know are able to SEE. Cool!

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  12. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    I’m back home at last near 10PM! Grace. Grace, I have more of it than I will ever use in a lifetime. Won’t you let me send you some Pulease. It won’t be a big package.

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    oh dear you….yes. and ok and yes. sometimes lifes
    last way longer than we think they might tho…..
    love, Michelle, to you

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