Here are the answers to the Blue in the Face Matching Game in the form of color chips for each of the skin colors. The colors range from the warmest blues such as Meanie Blue to the coolest blues such as Beauregard Blue; from the most saturated, Blue Man Blue to the least saturated, Walters […]
Smashing Color
with Maggie Maggio
I read recently that our different races are all the colors of the earth – the dirt, the soil, the clay, the sand. Since there is no blue earth, characters with blue skin seem unnatural and other worldly. Here’s a fun matching game on blue skinned folks seen in shows, movies, TV, artwork, and comic books. Note that I […]
The article on the mystery of Maya blue led me to the movie Apocalypto. I was hoping to find images of sacrificial victims painted blue. I did find some photos but was surprised to see that the faces were not painted. Given Mel Gibsons reputation for historical accuracy, I am guessing there is a Mayan painting somewhere that shows how the slaves were […]
Last week the New York Times reported that the science world was a buzz with the publication of an article in Antiquities magazine solving the mystery of Maya Blue. The color, often described as matching the Caribbean sky, is a brilliant turquoise blue. It is shown here on a wall from the murals at Bonampak. Most […]
My mother’s favorite color is blue. She collects blue glass bottles and displays them in the windows of our house in Ohio. She prefers cobalt blue but all varieties of blue make it onto the shelves. Over the years many of the bottles were accidently broken – one time a whole window’s worth came tumbling down! […]
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