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Watch for Manatees

  Hex colour reference:  979AAA A colourful note: this bluish grey shade appeared as manatee in Crayola boxes in 1998 and is currently available in the 120 packs. If you run […]

Hope and Anchor – week 1

Only three weeks late! I have finally got myself organised and am joining Robyn’s February photo editing challenge.  I’ll post the first 3 weeks over 3 days and then get back to […]

Chinese Hillside in Scotland

n Hex colour reference: CD4A4A A colourful note: The first recorded use of mahogany, named after the wood of the same name,  as a colour term in English was in 1737, and of mahogany red was in 1843.  This […]

A Colourful Snowdrop

Per Hasselberg (1850-1894) was a Swedish sculptor, known for his delicate plaster sculptures of naked women.  Born in Sweden, he moved to France as a young man and studied at the […]

Brazilian Art in Berlin

The artistic twins, Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo, known as OSGEMEOS (The Twins),  were born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1974.  Now famous and much admired street artists, they still live and work […]

Warm Colours on a Cold Day

Hex colour reference:  #ffbd88 This very light orange colour became an unusually named Crayola crayon in 1993.  One of the 16 winners of the 1993 naming competition created a lively impression […]