Hi everyone. This month, the Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge is “blue”. I have written several posts addressing the color blue. It is one of my favorite colors, probably my favorite after purple. Oh wait, now that I think of all the beautiful shades of blue, I actually believe as a general color category, blue is even better than purple. Sorry, lilac.
There are so many wonderful shades of blue. I once took a quiz on Dictionary.com to determine how much I knew about the different words for various blues. The only one I got wrong the first time I took the quiz, was the meaning of “cerulean”. I was unsure when I retook it today too, but remembered that my first instinct had been incorrect back then so selected the next thing that came to mind. And this time, I scored 8 out of 8 correct answers. That doesn’t mean that I don’t tthink cerulean should be purplish.
Since the quiz did not explain every shade of blue clearly, and there are many more that weren’t mentioned in it, I just looked a few up. Since I do have some concept of color despite being totally blind now, I can imagine what colors would look like. No-one can be sure whether I’m correct, but that applies to sighted people’s internal perception of color as well.
Blue is the color I have the most shades of in polymer clay and I don’t even have all of them. I have Fimo blue (true blue, so blue as blue should be, apparently), brilliant blue, pacific blue, aqua, blue ice quartz, blue agate and peppermint, which contrary to common sense is blue not green. I also have Premo cobalt blue and ultramarine blue, as well as Cernit in several shades of blue that I can’t remember. In this sense, it’s interesting to note that I hardly create anything primarily blue out of polymer clay. I think I need to change that.
A Multitude of Musings 
You’re right there are so many shades of blue. I did a blog color challenge a few times, for Crayola Crayons. They all had fun names for all the blue ones. 🙂
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That’s so cool that you did that challenge! Thanks for stopping by.
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When I think of the colour blue I think of my dad, it was his favourite colour
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Thanks for sharing. I hope your memories of your Dad are mostly pleasant.
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I love blue too. I have read a couple of books about colour; so interesting how they used to make the pigments, and how you can date artworks by them.
cheers
sherry https://sherryspickings.blogspot.com/
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That’s truly interesting indeed, thanks for sharing.
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Blue is my favorite color. 🙂
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Oh, awesome! Thanks for sharing.
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You definitely should start creating using blue! That’d be so awesome!
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Thanks and I agree. It’s such a serene color.
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What an interesting post! Blue is one of my favourites, especially in clothing. Thank you, Astrid, for taking part in our Blue Challenge.
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Thanks so much for commenting. I love your challenge.
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Thank you, Astrid.
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My mom’s favorite color was blue. I like some blues, especially a bright blue clear sky. And royal blue is pretty. I know there are a lot of different shades. I would probably do bad on a quiz about the different blue names. What would you like to make out of clay that is mainly blue?
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Thank you so much for your kind comment. One of the things that helped me about the quiz was the fact that its questions weren’t open-ended. As for polymer clay, I think I’d like to make a pendant or earrings.
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You’re welcome. Ooh, a pendant would be nice in like three shades of blue. Good idea!
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Oh, that’s such an awesome idea! Thanks for inspiring me.
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You’re most welcome.
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