52 Weeks of Color: Taupe Tough

Just a dingy-tinged mole, that taupe…

52 Weeks of Color: Iridescent Indigo

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you’re brown, you’ll find out you’re blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.
— Tom Robbins

52 Weeks of Color: Savage Sienna

Sienna, the pigment of burned earth.

Extending a Helping Hand – Come Hell or Dark Water

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.
~ Anne Lamott

Extending a Helping Hand – Hellish Helper

Help can come from the most unlikely of characters…

52 Weeks of Color: Silver Seconds

O words of love, O words divine!
The silver thought, the golden line!
Of all men’s words, there’s none so fine,
As these three words: ‘I’ve got mine!’
~ Hagar the Horrible

52 Weeks of Color: Green Dreams

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
~ Noam Chomsky

52 Weeks of Color: Sugary Cerise

Cerise, the French ‘cherry’.

52 Weeks of Color: Yield to Yellow

Be like Curious George: start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what’s there.
~ James Collins

52 Weeks of Color: Sepia Serenity

“Whatever happens, she’ll deal with it in her art. After her father’s death, she talked about finding an incredible trove of 100-year-old sepia-colored letters in her father’s attic… She talks about what she might do with these letters. She said she might even bring new colors into her palate as a result of the discovery.”
~ Erica Rothman