Impulse

In con­tem­plat­ing the visual design for this blog, I con­sid­ered a violet/silver color scheme. As I exper­i­mented, I thought, “How does one make sil­ver? Is it even a color?“
As a pho­tog­ra­pher, I’ve always thought of sil­ver as merely grey with high­lights. If you take away all that shini­ness, you just get grey. If you start with grey, what potion of red, green, and blue do you use to make sil­ver?
Answer: you can’t. That’s because silver’s not a real color. Silver is just high fash­ion grey. I’m going to go take it out of my Crayola box right now.
Come to think of it, brown’s not a color either. I’ve always hated brown. (Yes, the 70s were very hard for me). Where is brown on the color wheel? I’ve never seen it. I’d love for some­one to explain where brown comes from.
And don’t get me started on Burnt Sienna…