With Flying Colors
Watercolor pigment tubes Each individual color is a universe in itself. Johannes Itten When I look around, I register color first. Before form, before faces, really. Like most artists, I formally studied color theory, read Josef Albers and Johannes Itten and played with paint chips, but the natural world has always been my best teacher, both on the canvas and in how I design my home and gardens. In the studio, I field a lot of questions about color. People tell me how they fear some colors or worry about breaking the rules. What rules? The first principle to understanding…
