Looking at Green

I am met with an exhilarating rush of excitement at seeing the lush, bright green fields below me when coming in for landings at Heathrow Airport.  I can still hear the sound of the lowering ailerons  on the plane as we approach the runway. That sound also enhances my own symbolic image of GREEN. 

GREEN that changes from yellow green corn fields to emerald blue water. Green that has orange, red, purple, white or grey accompanying it. Green that is so pale that you can barely see it to a rich deep blackish green that envelopes like a forest. We humans are able to see more colors and values of Green then any other color.

There are ever so many symbolic association stories that accompany green.  For example : emerald green pigment was made from verdigris and copper arsenite – a deadly poison used for painting and wallpaper in the 1800s. It was said that the noxious fumes from the green wallpaper in Napolean Bonaparte’s, St. Helena home caused his death. Read more if you like interesting diversions. Although this is interesting, it doesn’t tell me anything about how I feel about the color GREEN. The story above does. What is your personal association with Green?   Gail Harker

© Nancy Scagliotti – Collage and Hand Stitch

Photo © Penny Peters

© Gail Harker – machine Embroidery

network pattern of a cabbage © Gail Harker

painted acrylic©Gail Harker

– green glass ©Gail Harker

©Gillian Smith – Island detail from Level 3 Advanced Studies in Design and Experimental Stitch

© Linda Ingham

© Bobbie Herrick – from The Art of Machine Embroidery

© Peggy Doyle – printed and painted designs from Level 4 Experimental Advanced Design

©Pat Christensen – applique and machine stitch

© Mical Middaugh – Still Life from Level 4 Experimental Advanced Design

Japanese Tea Garden, Arboretum, Seattle, WA © penny Peters

© Gail Harker – printed peas on paper with pen

Design Inspirations – Primula ©Gail Harker

© Valerie Stein -handmade and Dimensional Felt

tomatillo in its pure state © Gail Harker

closeup of beaded tassel © Gail Harker

Fields of canola © Gail Harker

Northwest Explorer Dog – soft sculpture and hand stitches © Sandy Little – Dimensional images with embroidery

Ronna Robinson

Harold of Spring © Sandy Little – Raised applique and hand embroidery

© Margaret Folsom – acrylic on paper

© Lexa Shaw from Level 2 Studies in design and Experimental Stitch

©Wendy MacKinnon – hand embroidery on painted fabric from level 3 Advanced Studies in Design and Experimental Stitch

mossy lines and structures © Gail Harker

© Bobbie Herrick

© Marilyn Olsen – hand stitch

© Gail Harker

© Donna Kaplan – machine embroidery level 2 Studies in design and Experimental stitch

circular patterns © Gail Harker

Peacock Eye © Gail Harker

© Patti Olds – level 3Studies in Art and Design

© Gail Harker

© Donna Lee Dowdney

American cemetery © Penny Peters

Photo © Penny Peters

Roman Downspout 2 © Penny Peter

© Gail Harker

painted acrylic©Gail Harker

© Christina Faiirley Erickson

© Gail Harker – hand woven papers for a color study

Photo © Penny Peters

© Bebe Beyer from level 1 Machine Embroidery

© Carol Burrows – machine embroidery

© Nancy Drake

© Deborah Zibrik from level 4 Studies in Experimental Stitch and Multimedia

© Linda Ingham – from level 4 Experimental Advanced Design

© Charlotte de Renne

painted acrylic©Gail Harker

©Gail Harker

© Angie Alexander – from level 1 Color Studies

Almost Ripe © Maria Patrizzi

© Linda Ingham’s Collection Grandmother’s Flower Garden Patchwork

Vanation on the dome of the Sindone Chapel © Bobbie Herrick

© Landscape Richard Box

Olives and circles © Gail Harker

contrast between green and white berries © Gail Harker

Judy Roloson

©Susan Sasnett 3d textile caterpillar from Level 3 Advanced Studies in Design and Experimental Stitch

©June Steegstra – from Snow dyeing with Procion MX

Time for a walk before it gets dark. I can see that this is a must for more photography and sketchbook studies. ©Gail Harker

© Sydney Hole’s front cover of a handmade book

© Gail Harker

© Gail Harker Lichen on a rock

© Gail Harker

See Gail’s Color Course either at the studio or online. ©Gail Harker

Apples. © Gail Harker

Greenery at Barn House ©Gail Harker

painted acrylic©Gail Harker

Cabbage © Chris Goldburn

hand couched threads

Peacock eye has wonderful possibilities for color scheme. ©Gail Harker

Take color paint swatches for a walk ©Gail Harker

A burned back machine sample ©Gail Harker

A hand-stitched sample inspired by trees, ©Gail Harker

Some ferns have a brownish green area ©Gail Harker

Moss on pavement ©Gail Harker

chromium green oxide © Gail Harker

Many colors of green ©Gail Harker

Deception Pass ©Gail Harker

©Gail Harker

painted acrylic©Gail Harker