Saturday, September 14, 2013

Indigo

Blue Butterfly

Blue Willow China













My Daughter's beautiful work













Blue Mountain Lake


















What's your favour colour? As a watercolour artist, mine is Indigo, I often team it up with Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Orange or Yellow. Indigo is one of the seven colours of the rainbow, the colour between the blue and the violet. The colour Indigo was named after the Indigo dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and related species. India is believed to be the oldest centre of Indigo dyeing in the Old World. It was a primary supplier of Indigo dye to Europe as early as the Greco-Roman era. And of course our love for the Jeans. Denim is the colour of denim cloth, which after being dyed with Indigo dye, is used to make jeans.