Artistic Lines
from Joan Justis
May 2017
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Rockhill Farm, 12″ x 16″ oil on canvas board
Green is a color with numerous hues that can be detected by the human eye. As I drove early this morning through a farming valley with the sun rising over the mountains, this thought came to my mind. So many greens! So refreshing and uplifting.
I watched a Great Courses video “How Colors Affect you: What Science Reveals”. Apparently experiments have proven that green effectively fosters creative thinking. Even a green piece of paper can ignite inventive thoughts. That must be why I intuitively painted my studio a soft green. I wish I had known this when I was teaching school!
Green Grow the Lilacs, Joan Justis
We have all recognized that spending time hiking or sitting on a porch in a green backyard refreshes the soul and reduces stress. Also green is an invitation. Green means we can go. And the color represents the characteristic of being a nurturer.
It is an old word in many languages usually beginning with “gro” or “gre” referring to the color of living things and growth.
Blacksmith Fork Canyon, Joan Justis, 24′ x 30″, oil on canvas
We can take advantage of this effect and include green and plants in our environment, and especially spend more time outside in a natural environment.
I purposely design my landscape paintings to be windows where we can mentally escape and wander. Look at my website http://joanjustis.com for “Wild Spaces” and enjoy the sense of releasing stress!
“Green is the color of life.” (Quoted from Bourne Creative, meaning of the color green.)
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