24/08/2026
Five colours you've never really looked at but they've been in front of you the whole time...
Swipe and read each caption, then go and look 👀
Shadows on white.
Your brain says "grey" but looks longer.
Most shadows on a white wall are blue, violet, sometimes green - borrowed from the sky and everything nearby.
Once you see it, you can't unsee it!
"White" objects.
A white object is almost never white. It's warm cream on the lit side, blue-grey in shadow...
Sometimes there's a stripe of bounced colour from the place where it's sitting.
White is a story your brain tells you.
Green things.
"That plant is green" is doing a lot of lying!
Look closely: yellow-green in the sun, patches of blue, purple, brown or grey...
This pot holds many colours! 🌈
Skin.
Not one colour - a complete weather system! 😂
Warm here, cool there, flushed, olive tones, blue and pink...
This is why you need more than "skin-coloured" pencils!
The sky on a normal day.
Not a vivid sunset or a spectacular thunderstorm, just an ordinary day.
Top to horizon it shifts through more colours than my paint tin holds!
Nobody looks at it, but you do now 😉
This week's email is a full practice built in this - five colours observations to hunt down and record.
No painting skill required, just your eyes.
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