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Pepper

In language, the juxtaposition of contrasting images creates powerful metaphors. In music, contrast (of dynamics, chords, modes) creates sublime tension. In relationships, contrasting ideas, opinions, and perspectives can bring out the best in us (sometimes opposites attract). In weather, what would we do without the contrast of seasons? Without contrasts, everything is dull and boring (Muzak and corporate wallpaper come to mind).

I’ve been having a love affair with black and white my whole life. It shows in my choice of dogs: I’ve had a Dalmatian for the last 21 years. Pepper is our second.

But lately I had been thinking about the beauty of black and IVORY instead of white. While musing over this in the car one day, an ivory and black mini-Cooper stopped next to me at the light, as if confirming the track of my thoughts.

Replace white with ivory (or off-white), and you have a combo less stark and more elegant… slightly warmer in feel, yet still powerful in its force and presence.

This classic palette has been around forever, but having been blinded by winter-white-and-black for so long, I am just opening my eyes to its seductive beauty.

So I am experimenting with ivory and off-white tones in my neutral, high-contrast palettes these days.

However… as beautiful as this combo is, I will never dye Pepper’s fur ivory.

Ivory & Black Bathroom

A drawing from one of my sketchbooks is featured in the JetPens.com Gallery (JetPens.com is one of my favorite sites on the web, because they have the best pens around-many unavailable in the US- and I am addicted to excellent writing and drawing instruments). To see the ink & Prismacolor drawing, click the link and scroll down a bit. https://www.jetpens.com/jetpics.php

If you are curious to see more of my non-bead art (painting and drawing is my first love, color my second, and beads my third) here you go:

Sketchbook:
http://gallery.me.com/margiedeeb#100201

Paintings & Charcoal Drawings:
http://gallery.me.com/margiedeeb#100178

Watercolor