Artful Greens and Malarkey (On-line art lesson #10)

During the lead up to St. Paddy’s Day, we’re going to develop our sensitivity to  green.  When the big day comes, you won’t just order a green beer; you’ll have the discernment to order yours sage, spruce, or sea-foam. Make mine more of an avocado.

This week the assignment is to notice all the different greens around you. Look up now:  see all the variations of green in the room you’re in and think up names for them.  Good descriptive names; there’s no “plain green”.  Next week, we’ll practice mixing greens. This week you’ve got it easy while you work on your rose (lesson#9).

When last in Ireland, I played this “name the color” game. But not with greens.

Who wants ten days of gray?  Not I.  I had dove, slate, burnished pewter, silver, and platinum days.  Waking up to another rainy day (slate, nickel, and gull feather), the proprietress would come singing in with my porridge, ” Such a lovely “soft” day.”

We Irish, it’s only sometimes that we think all the world is a Guinness.

Enjoy your greens.  Leave your list in the comments section.

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