I like pure red light (#FF0000) because its relaxing and lessens visual information overload
Baker-Miller pink is also interesting, was proposed to reduce violence and promote calmness in prison. Also very relaxing
490-510 nanometers, I love cyans and greens. Teal and turquoise are very relaxing colors to me 😃
Ultraviolet.
IE a black light. It’s the only light that makes pigments even cooler.
In terms of physiology, the color is stimulated in the brain when the eye reports input from short wave blue cone cells along with a sub-sensitivity of the long wave cones which respond secondarily to that same deep blue color, but with little or no input from the middle wave cones. The brain interprets that combination as some hue of magenta or purple, depending on the relative strengths of the cone responses.
In other words, our brains are like “🤷♂️, here’s a thing”
And you can pronounce it “foof”!
What I call Parrish light - the distinctive tone that’s prominent in Maxfield Parrish’s paintings.
It’s a relatively subdued but clear reddish orange that I see most commonly with relatively uniform but thin thunderclouds at dusk. It makes blues and greens much more vivid, in spite of the fact that the overall amount of light is relatively low. And it’s glorious.
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This painting of his – Daybreak – has a pale red-orange and has blues and greens that sort of jump out more because of that, I suppose. Is this what you’re referring to?
Daybreak, inspired by the landscape of Vermont and New Hampshire to create lush and romantic tones,[1] is regarded as the most popular art print of the 20th century, based on number of prints made: one for every four American homes.
The technique of glazing, using a varnish over several layers of paint at once helps to achieve the soft glow and whimsical style Parrish is so well known for.
Parrish referred to Daybreak as his “great painting”, the epitome of his work.
Pretty much.
Don’t get too hung up on the name - it’s just a personal bit of shorthand. What I’m talking about is the actual phenomenon. Parrish’s paintings are just the closest popular representation I’ve seen of it.
It seems to happen most often in late summer, when (in my area at least) afternoon thundershowers are relatively common. There are times when the clouds will roll in, but they’re not dense enough to bring rain, and just at dusk, the light through those clouds is diffused but oddly clear, so in spite of the fact that the light level is low overall, colors, and especially blues and greens, really pop.
In HSL terms, it’s essentially 100% saturation but only maybe 30% light, and since the light shifts toward red/orange, the blues and greens are the colors that stand out the most.
In HSL terms, it’s essentially 100% saturation but only maybe 30% light, and since the light shifts toward red/orange, the blues and greens are the colors that stand out the most.
A little physics of light correction: The colors that red and orange light cause to pop are red and orange. Red/orange light does cast a blue/green shadow color, though. The compliment of a light’s color is always the ambient color temperature of the light source’s shadow. That may be what you mean because a Red/Orange light will always make Reds and Oranges more intense than other colors since that is where most light energy is accumulated. For example, if I put a Red gel over a light then cast that light upon a solid blue surface, significantly less light would be bouncing off that surface than if I had used a Red surface.
https://www.muddycolors.com/2022/07/color-theory-part-9-the-anatomy-of-shadows/
Favorite all-time painter!
“Raphael, imma let you finnish, but Maxfield Parrish was the one of the best painters of all time. Of all time!”
I tend towards green.
Which one?
Sky green is best green.
I’m a fan of synthwave. AKA Outrun. Colors from that pallette on a black background are my jam. If I have to pick one, I’d go with neon purple.
I like #B00B69. Not only for the name, but also because it’s a really nice magenta color
Color app says “Lipstick”
#00FF00
Sear my eyes with beautiful perfect green.
Because it’s metal as fuck, that’s why. Electromagnetic equivalent of a sonic boom.
Also, it’s pretty:
Turquoise, it’s very fantasy-inspiring.
Ultraviolet. It makes other colors that much more cool just by being there. And it kills things.
The one positive to wearing contacts all the time is that my eyes are mostly protected from UV. I always think how cool that is even if I still avoid looking directly at UV lights out of caution.
#FDEFCD
I like me some good candlelight-like yellow.
#ffd0aa
i always associate it with melon (cantaloupe). And melons are nice, sweet fruits.
#FF7700! I love this orange color and use it in all my tests.
As I wrote this, I didn’t read that it was about light… #fca4a4 sweet pink, kinda like salmon but more red on the Hue slider. I use it as my brand color! Even though I don’t really use it much.
