Secret Lives of Color

 Secret Lives of Color

Creative Work #1

Naples Yellow

The Bottles

paper, hot glue, card board, paint 

In the book, Secret Lives of Colors, the author gave a story about how Naples Yellow was found. Kassia St. Clair told of how there were a bunch of old bottles that were by the ocean and they all these different shapes and sizes with different labels. Inside the bottle they found powdered of what would become known as Naples Yellow. I used this story to inspire me to make a cardboard island that represent the land the original people found the bottles at and then I made my own bottles with labels covered in Naples Yellow. 

Creative Work #2

Rosso Corsa

Racing Collage 

paper, glue, canvas

8"x 10"

There is not much up for interpretation with this piece, It directly tells the story of where we got the color Rosso Corsa from. The book tells of a journey that these men go on (map in collage) where they are determined to drive across the world. They start out in a bright red car but by the time they finish, their car is so dirty that it becomes what we know now as Rosso Corsa. Rosso Corsa in now know as "Racing Red" bueause that is the color that Enzo Ferrari used for his Ferrari's. In the collage there are examples of things that represent Ferrari like the map of the journey, the Italian flag and map, the racing flag pattern, and the car.