A Pop Of Orange
Now that our beautiful Autumn is over and the fall leaves are gone I look back on all the orange I saw and it warms me up inside.
Did you know that the word “Orange” wasn’t even a word in English until the fruit arrived? (People said…”Yellow/Red”.) This was around the 16th century after it was imported from Asia.
Orange represents joy and creativity. It apparently stimulates appetite and is the colour worn by monks for enlightenment.
We use the brightness of the colour orange for lifeboats, safety gear, and warning signs because of its visibility.
A robin’s red breast is actually orange.
I was thinking of the different names we have for orange. We can say…. pumpkin, tangerine, marigold and burnt orange , Persian and vermilion orange.
And then there’s names that we might not at first think of as orange; softer hues like peach and apricot and then orange hues with a touch of pink such as salmon and coral. I think about these a lot when choosing colours for a painting.
Of course I always think of orange at Hallowe’en, my favourite day.
Orange is the national colour of the Netherlands.
Because orange is abundant in nature, there are many natural resources for orange dye:
Butternut seed husks
Carrots
Alder tree bark
Eucalyptus
Bloodroot
Paprika
Turmeric
ORANGA glad you learned a bit more about the colour orange?