Searching for Roy G Biv: Pink

Since finding something pink around here in November is pretty difficult (gray or brown - take your pick), I had to go back a month or so for the photos.  I tried to cover a wide variety of the possible shades of pink, so here goes.

 Rosy pink veronica...

 ... a lavendar-pink petunia...

 ... a classic pink cosmo...

... coppery-pink grasses...

... magenta-pink cosmos...

... and faded pink coneflowers.



To enjoy all the shades of pink found by other Roy G Biv participants, please visit the blogs of our hostesses, Jennifer Coyne Qudeen and Julie B. Booth.

Searching for Roy G Biv: Gray

In our search for Roy G Biv, we have now come the color gray. Our hostesses, Jennifer Coyne Qudeen and Julie B Booth, had to add on some colors that aren't in the rainbow, in order to round out the year.

A statue at Spring Grove cemetery in Cincinnati displays soft, mottled grays...

Huge gray rocks at Eagle Falls in the Great Smokey Mountains...

A little footbridge at Springrove...

A towering gray rock wall beside the Cumberland River in Kentucky...

An old, abandoned building (corn crib?) on what remains of a farm in rural Kentucky...

A widow on a lovely memorial chapel at Springrove...

A view of the side of that same chapel...

Shelf fungus on a log in Lewis County, Kentucky...

A fallen silvery gray leaf...



I hope you enjoyed my grays! To see what grays other participants have on display, please visit Julie B Booth or Jennifer Coyne Qudeen.

September RoyGBiv: Metallic Gold

Since we have traveled the entire rainbow now (and more), you'd think the metallic gold would be what we found at the proverbial end. No such luck, but I did find some beautiful golden things on a Buddhist altar.

To see what golden things others found, go to our hostesses' Jennifer Coyne Qudeen and Julie B. Booth's blogs for the links.

Searching for ROY G BIV: Brown

We have come to the end of the rainbow. (Hmmmm.... where's that pot of gold?) Luckily, our blog hop hostesses, Julie B Booth and Jennifer Coyne Qudeen, have not let that end our search; this month's color is brown.

The Big South Fork of the Cumberland River was the color of cafe-au-lait after torrential rains...

... as was the Cumberland River right below the Falls.

I love the character of this old building in Richmond, Virginia.

 Our cabin out on the Kinniconick Creek as we put on the cedar clapboard....

Beautiful hand-made chairs at the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen Gallery in Berea, Kentucky.

Gorgeous inlaid/carved wood piece at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.  Unfortunately, I didn't take note of the artist's name.


I hope you enjoyed my browns. To see what other bloggers have in store, go to Jennifer Coyne Qudeen's or Julie B Booth's blogs for a list of links!

Indigo

Once again we are searching for Roy G Biv (the colors of the rainbow) with our hostesses Julie B. Booth and Jennifer Coyne Qudeen.  The color for June is indigo, which is described as, "One of the colors of the rainbow, indigo — a dark purplish blue — gets it name from the indigo plant used to create the indigo dye."

I found this chart of shades of indigo on this site.  It goes on to say:
"Indigo appears between blue and violet in a rainbow. Purple grapes and blueberries are indigo. The deep blue of dark denim blue jeans is indigo.
Indigo is a deep, purply blue with some indigos having more blue or more violet."



I had trouble finding real-life examples of indigo, so I therefore turned to some of my artwork for help!

Dimensional Shift

 Balance

Crow Creates the Night

Ancestral Ground

Chrysalis II

Please go to Julie B Booth's and Jennifer Coyne Qudeen's blogs for links to see more indigo.

It's All About BLUE

Once again, I'm participating in Julie B. Booth's and Jennifer Coyne Qudeen's blog hop, "Searching for ROY G BIV", and the color for May is blue.

... an antique blue tractor...

... some embroidery floss of various blue hues...

 ... bluejays...

... hopping around my yard...

... in search of seeds...

 ... a very old church in Richmond, Virginia, with a blue roof...

a large blue sculpture outside the Virginia Museum of Fine Art...

Happy blue day, everyone. Be sure to check out Jennifer's and Julie's lovely blogs for connections to more on the blue spectrum...

Roy G Biv: Green

I'm late in posting my contribution to the Search for Roy G Biv (the colors of the rainbow); it's hard for me to believe the third Thursday of the month was yesterday!  With my exhibition coming up tomorrow, it had completely slipped my mind!

 Earth, Sea, and Sky

 Kinniconick Creek, Lewis County, Kentucky

Olivine Angel

Rocky Mountains, Glacier National Park

Transformation 18

To find more green, please check the links at the blogs of our hostesses, Julie B Booth and Jennifer Coyne Qudeen.

Roy G Biv: Yellow

 A couple of yellow butterflies...

... from those warmer days...

 ...a very cool old building in Richmond, VA...

... a family riding a tractor under a yellow awning...

... a yellow wall at the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen gallery in Berea, KY...

... a piece in the Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts in Louisville (sorry I neglected to record the name of the artist)....




It's that time in the Searching for Roy B Biv blog hop when we feature the color Yellow! Please check out the blogs of our hostesses Julie B Booth and Jennifer Coyne Qudeen, where you'll find links to many other yellow discoveries!




Addendum: Just a quick note to let you know that my work was featured in a collection on Artspan's homepage called, "Found, Fractured, and Fastened"! There's some cool artwork in the collection if you'd like to check it out.  Here's a link to the page on facebook.