The Blues (and Greens)

It’s finally done and the Seahawks walked away with a win. Now there is just one problem…what in the hell do you do with all of the blue and green paint and how can you possibly get to Monday now that football season is over

Well, there’s hockey and with the Olympics starting tonight everyone will be playing so you could tune in to that. (Hint offside is not a five yard penalty.)

Or there’s real football, futbol. You know the way they do it in Europe? They kick the ball around and never touch it with their hands except for Throw-ins and then they have lots of rules.

You could always watch curling which is more of a chess match on ice but even though they don’t do a lot of moving around they can make it pretty exciting…

Okay, so none of that really works as a substitute for football. But you’ve got to do something, even the pre-season is seven months away.

You could go to the movies, George Clooney’s Monuments Men promises to be wonderful for anyone who loves the Arts. When five guys cam buck the whole US Army and save 80% of Europe’s art treasures that’s what real super heroes do!

Of course that’s just one afternoon or do you still drive at night?

Okay maybe waiting for the DVD is a better idea, no loss of life in the county, no expensive auto repairs and no costly hospital stays. But that still leaves seven months and nothing to do.

But you have all of that blue and green paint, (you don’t have blue and gold do you? Of course you don’t and wouldn’t admit it if you did.) Why not try using it to make new and different art?

Now there are those among us, (Not actually us as in me cause I don’t work at this level, but you guys do so we’ll let the editorial us stand and just move on how ‘bout?) who use blue and green predominantly in their art all of the time, so why not try out their palette?

There are lots of things you can do in blue and green which are not Seahawk logos. There are all sorts of landscapes, plants and sea scenes. You could do that but you are an artist and don’t want to do just any old art, you want to create something wonderful.

Okay, here’s a thought, so many of the scenes of Native Americans use bright oranges, tans, yellows burnt umber and sienna, but do they have to? Could it be that a Native American might venture somewhere away from the deserts and the plains of the center of the country?

No how silly of me, you and I know very well that we white guys were the first and only people who ever laid foot on the Pacific coast. We weren’t? Musta cut class that day.

So if there were Native Americans living in and around all of the water and foliage here in the vast Pacific coast then how come they only get yellows, tans and burnt umber? (Okay, maybe not every artist who paints Native American themes uses burnt umber, but that’s the correct color for the Longhorns and I like saying it just to show that I haven’t forgotten Saint Darrell and the Wonderful Wishbone T.)

Surely there are scenes and themes which can benefit from some green and blue hues.

Now here I go again, harking back to the dawn of time when I started taking pictures and when cameras used film and didn’t not have charged coupled devices or CMOS sensors and the colors you got depended on the film you used and I used a whole bunch of film so that I could understand what sort was best for the particular image I was creating.

And one of the best was Ektachrone which only saw in blue and green and National Geographic went to town with it cause in a jungle if you dropped it down a stop or two the blues and greens would just blast your eyes out and that is how National Geographic got so famous for fantastic color photographs.

And if they can do it using a film with a strong green and blue color bias then why not you using up some of that leftover Seahawk paint?

Nothing will make the season start any sooner and as long as you are at the mercy of the calendar, say that’s an idea, make a bunch of blue and green images and have a Seahawk color calendar ready for both the next season on the gridiron and for the Christmas holidays which usually follow the football season pretty closely so that the NFL a can cash in on all of that seasonal buying.

Get out there and do some bicolor paintings or be a real artist and do mono-color and see if you can do it better than Picasso who had a whole “Blue Period” and maybe a hundred year from now people will be talking about your “Blue Period’ and if nothing else you will use up all of that leftover Seahawk paint so that if the Twelfth Man has nothing to do next year, what am I thinking that would never happen but they might change the tint of the Hawk’s colors and then you’d have to go out and buy new paint anyway so why not use up all of this years and be ready for the start of the new season?

You can always catch up on episodes of Hostages. Oh wait that’s all ready been cancelled, you better just start painting.