Showing posts with label light. Show all posts
Showing posts with label light. Show all posts

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Colors are Bitchin' Man

"Field of Diamonds" by Drew John Tankersley


Happy sez-  Colors  are cool things.  They are pretty, they are interesting.  Color is a lot like things in the universe including us, all vibrating at different frequencies giving off or I should say reflecting light at different wavelengths or frequencies, giving everything it's own characteristics and personality.  Colors are a property of light not darkness and we can only see them, they only exist for us in the light.  Like most things good.  Colors can trigger and enhance emotions, giving us an insight into the frequencies of emotion, perhaps allowing us to calculate emotions with mathematics.  Colors - manifestations of light, reflection, refraction and frequencies are truly, as we used to say back in the '60s, Bitchin' Man!

Here's some links:

Revolution of Reality
ballet austin - color theory properties of color
siggraph.org

Sunday, November 23, 2014

The Cycle of Shadows

"Electric Blue" by Drew John Tankersley
Happy sez-  If you have spent a lot of time through the years driving in the Mojave Desert then you have probably noticed two things about the play of light in that great vastness:  the shadows of the early morning and late afternoon, and the silhouettes along the ridges of the desert hills and mountains.  Drawn by the fine

Monday, November 17, 2014

Wonders and Innocence

"Desert Nights - Vegas Valley" by Drew John Tankersley


Happy sez- This painting I am told is an impression of the Las Vegas Valley circa 1992.  If you are familiar with that area you can see from the different colors of the city that light up the surrounding valley about what year it is and you can tell by the hues that it is in the fall or winter.  If you step back from the human side of

Sunday, August 31, 2014

What MakesYour Colors Yours

"Summer Breeze" by D.J. Tankersley


With Labor Day's hastened arrival and the brilliant days of summer winding to a close, the long soft pastel summer evenings will give way to the abrupt night fall of winter with it's hard darkness and deep nights.  Yet before the fall wind's blow and you hear the howl of a winters gale, there is still time for a few more more breaths of a summer breeze and time to catch a sunbeam still.  Are you still catching sunbeams or thinking more of the

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Love and Goodness are the Key

"Bright Comet Night" by D.J. Tankersley
The world we live on and the universe we're in is filled with joy and beauty, light, color and happiness, love and goodness, but ever notice that without the last two all the others go away?