SODALITE BLUE: ANOTHER 2012 COLOUR TO LOVE!!

Power of Blue

I have painted many dark interiors for clients; grey, brown, green, red, and even black but never blue. I don't get a lot of requests for dark blues. It's just not a popular interior colour. Why is that? when the majority of the world will wear blue over any other colour. Blue is the first colour most people choose as their favourite. And everyone I know has at least one pair of blue jeans, which incidentally, originally, came from indigo dye (a very dark blue).

The History of Colour is a long one, so I won't get into that here. But one thing we do notice about it is that Colour definitely has Power and  it can make us feel many different ways.

Natural blue elements like skies, lakes, seas and oceans can make us feel happy, free, relaxed, quiet, alone, blue even. It's a life force colour that really makes us feel alive.

It's interesting most of us don't wish to have this colour in our homes. Blue is the rarest colour in nature (not many blue trees out there and very few flowers) and at one time was the most difficult colour to acquire or make. It really is a precious commodity. Think of gemstones; lapis lazuli, sapphires, topaz, zircon.





For that reason alone you would think we would all want to paint our rooms a beautiful gem stone hue. Kings and Queens worldwide have plastered and painted palaces, castles, mansions, and furniture with gold and gold leaf! Why not a precious blue?

Rich blues are also the colour of divine beings .The Virgin Mary, in medieval art, is usually poised in ultra marine.

 

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The Hindu God Rama also shows well in blue. It is indeed a divine and radiant colour; however symbolic it may be.

............... I say we all start painting our worlds with more blue!

like this

or this

I, myself, am inspired by the azure / cerulean / sodealite blue colours in this amazingly blue cocktail!