Yesterday was the first day of spring and I am wondering if the monarch butterflies have started their flights from Mexico back to the U.S. I just finished Four Wings and a Prayer by Sue Halpern, a book about the mystery of monarch butterfly migration. It was a fabulous look inside the scientific world and a […]
Smashing Color
with Maggie Maggio
Color scales are step-by-step mixes showing the range of colors that you get by mixing two colors in different proportions. You can use any two colors to make scales. The first one I did was black to white, then I tried red to yellow, yellow to blue and blue back to yellow to get the […]
A few years ago my daughter spent some time in India and Nepal. She was there during Holi – the Hindu Festival of Colors. She knew I would love to hear about a celebration that involves throwing and squirting colors at complete strangers so she called home, a rare event, to tell me all about it. […]
“My heart leaps up when I behold a Rainbow in the sky.” William Wordsworth I live in a place with lots of rainbows – Portland, Oregon. When the sun breaks out in the late afternoon on a rainy day, I run to look out my kitchen window. The sunshine means that the rain has moved […]
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