Gothichome wrote:Willa, how did you make out of n your porch scraping, and have you come with a colour scheme yet?
Oh boy - do I still have a lot of scraping to go. I'll post pics tomorrow. Not only is there the complex surface of the wood mouldings, there is also the inside of each box-like structure. I've got one side completely scraped, on the outside, and about 1/3 of the inner side, and about 1/5 of the inner box sides. My feet can only take so much on the ladder. I'll still have to go over all the stripped surfaces with liquid paint stripper, at the end, too !
I have not opened my paint swatch book this week, but I am continuing to ruminate about color possibilities.
I found my garage sale copy of "The Enjoyment and Use of Color" by Walter Sargent ( c.1923). His writing about color is definitely more applicable to artistic painters v.s. house painters, but here are a couple of his quotes that I found edifying:
"But this does not imply that strong and brilliant colours are necessarily crude, nor that a liking for splendid hues is evidence of barbaric taste. The old theological doctrine of the total depravity of the unregenerate has been revived in much of our art teaching, so that the natural untrained preferences in the arts are frequently regarded as something to be wholly discarded in order to make an entirely new beginning. Some of these preferences, however, should be considered rather as the best starting points for development toward a taste for what is more permanently satisfying, and as indications of the main direction which that development should take."
and my most favourite passage:
" We find then that the beauty of color depends upon character of texture and counterpoise of hues rather than upon degree of intensity. These pleasure giving qualities may exist in tones of all degrees of intensity. Flatness and deadness whether of strong or subdued tones is the sign of the commonplace. Of particular insipidity are smooth ungradated areas of color dulled indiscriminately with neutral grey. Their harmony is rather the non-beligerancy of anaemia than the delicate adjustments of positive forces."
No one writes about color like that anymore !