we were in a forest in costa rica right after it rained. green seemed to envelope us.
nick told me that humans see more shades (hues?) of green than any other color. i totally believe it. we began to think of all the "official" names of the color green we use. like "mint, sea foam, spring, sage, lime, olive, hunter etc." most are food related and there's lots.
but i tried look this up for scientific back up and if it isn't on a forum that's pretty dumb, then it's on wikipedia articles that are way too complex to be fun anymore.
so without being willing to find a trusted source or prove that's it's true, i just simply tell myself that it's an adaptation because, not only are we (or at least we were) surrounded by plants of all sorts, we had to figure out which was what in order to use them without dying. like for food or medicine. being able to differentiate between all the greens became a way to survive.
i suppose if we ate rocks, we'd be able to identify and cleverly name more colors of grey and brown.
yummy yummy rocks.
ANYHOW:
this is all me figuring out why in the world i'll care to spend so much time doing the next few projects i have in mind. it helps to remember that green is a pretty important and "loaded" color.
in preparation, i made another one of these color charts using most the blues, greens and yellows i own so i can see the variety i can get. turns out i don't have that many.
these charts are easy but require lots of brush and palette washing to keep colors pure. the results are useful though.
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