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The Red Page has hung around for years in various piles and boxes of sketches and cut paper. Several layers of red acrylic paint over a page from a mystery paperback. Where to go with it? ____

It has had a strong and consistent hold on me for all these years. Usually I would pick it up and rub my fingers over the surface. Feeling the opposing textures of the mildly rough paper against the smoothness of several coats of acrylic paint…not enough coats to completely cover the text. I enjoyed playing with it, bending it. The flexibility of it appealed to me. Not only a painted surface, a painting, but also an almost-sculpture you could pick up, hold, touch and gently bend. And it felt so good!

It was an easy choice to pin on my newly hung bulletin board. Now, seeing it from a short distance as I paint…a new viewing perspective!…my curiosity about it grew. Til one moment, I visually became enveloped by the emotional weight of the red. Impact.

A short google search has led to some factual findings about the visual weights of color. Research finds red as bearing the most visual weight then blue, green, orange, and yellow being the lightest weight.

This woman will be walking through fields of red and doing some investigations on the visual weights of color and its effects.

Tip: Change perspectives now and then. See what happens…