At 02:00 PM 1/19/2015, Hope Greenberg wrote:
All agreed that they seemed to fall into 3 categories: emerald (or
blue-ish), olive, grassy. The version attached here is not
particularly sorted and it has five clips at the top of the second
page that actually included the name "pomona" in their descriptions.
Interesting! This is challenging my thoughts of classifying greens.
I'll agree with emerald being a blueish green, but usually not quite
as blue as a pthalo green, and some of the craft paints I've seen
called "viridian" seem to fall in the same group. I don't usually
think of "grassy" greens as yellowish: those are usually referred to
as "spring green" or "pea green", even though the greens I see in
spring are not all that yellow. Most "olive" greens are yellowish
towards the brown, and most "sage" greens a bit light and towards the
gray -- but here I'm seeing colors I'd call "sage" that are more
towards the brown, and "olives" that are not as brown as I usually
perceive them. One factor in this is brightness, since I normally
think of sage as a somewhat washed-out color, and those brownish
greens are more washed-out than I usually think of as olives. Another
factor is "lighting accommodation": when it looks like the image has
color-shifted (either because the scene had been transcribed with
color-shifted lighting, or because the image had shifted color over
time), my brain will "correct" colors to what they "should have been"
without the color cast.
Sharon Collier notes:
"...the elusiveness of keeping that color".
This is exactly the problem I have. My sage green sleeves and forepart have
faded to a yellow-ish green. Not as nice a color as I originally had.
Interesting. I normally wouldn't have considered sage as fading
towards the yellow... All sorts of questions are popping up in my
head about the types of dyes and/or pigments used in the garment, and
the environmental factors that have led to its fading...
Brenda F. Bell
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