A Note on Color

Deer in a Monastery Garden, Franz Marc, 1912

I love color.  I am drawn to  are bright, bold, saturated arrays of color.  I think most of us are.  For instance I've observed that my preschool-aged child is much more likely to think a candy, ice cream flavor, etc looks delicious if it is colorful.  I suppose I have never grown out of that trait that lures me to color in all forms: food, art, scenery.   I hope I never do.    

The above paintings is by one of my favorite artists, Franz Marc, a modernist who loved to depict animals in his bold geometric paintings.  In college I minored in art history   I even went on an art history study aboard in Europe and toured museums and cathedrals all over France, Belgium, and London.  Sometimes I fantasize what kind of career I may have had if I had chosen to pursue art history and curatorial studies in graduate school.  Would I be working at a job I loved at an art museum (unemployed with a lot of debt, praying for job opportunities)?  I remember hearing somewhere, that in trying to figure out what career you should have, you should think about what careers you envy.  In recent years, on the rare occasions when I've been to local art museums, I always find myself "envying" the docents, typically so serene and classy.  What an amazing, sophsticated job that would be, and to be surrounded by all of those beautiful things . . . Then again, sometimes I envy the employees who work at Sephora for the same reason (then again they have to deal with the aggravation of working in retail).  For now my main responsibility is my family, but I still try my hardest to surround myself with beauty and expose my kids to it as well.

Because color is such an integral part of makeup, I want to start a spotlight series featuring some of my favorite colors in makeup, nail color, and jewelry, and show how and with what products I use it.  I'm still experimenting, but that is part of the process.  Aren't we all just a work in progress anyway?