YELLOW PERIL - DAY 61

It's yellow today....I mainly used to avoid painting with yellow until I started painting flowers and then I had no choice. There's nothing like having no choice to make you grow up and move on. Today I've used a bit of yellow but I have to admit that I've used muted and earth yellows, which include raw sienna and titanite yellow. I've been looking at my books written by Derek Jarman and he speaks of the "Perils of Yellow" in his book "Chroma" and how he had a horror of Dandelions when he was a child. I can't say I liked them very much then either but have changed my mind now. So yellow for me brings to mind

Dandelions (of course)
Daffodils (of course)
Colemans mustard (my Dad's favourite)
Sherbert lemons (these were from Mr Corlett's sweet shop, mentioned in a previous blog)
Bismuth and Aureolin - two of my favourite watercolour yellows
Yellow River - the first single I bought
Lemons
Limoncello - brings back very happy memories of a holiday in Calabria about 12 years ago
​Yellow Submarine
My first car - an acid yellow Citroen 2CV - bought for me by my Dad in 1976
Primroses
Naples yellow paint (acrylic and oil)
My Convent school summer uniform dress
Winifred Nicholsons paintings - she used quite a lot of yellow
Eggs
A painting that Joe did of 2 yellow dandelions in a wine glass containing turquoise water - he was quite an artist/painter in his early years

The Minions - I love the Minions and I will never forget taking Chris's Mum (when she was 90) with Joe to see the Minions at Basingstoke Cinema. She was so enthusiastic but I doubt she could understand a word of what they were saying

Banana - for those of you who don't know is also the favourite food of the Minions

My pale yellow short sleeved sweat shirt -  I think it's the only item of yellow clothing that I have

A pretty teapot (mainly yellow) that I bought from my friend Daina when she ran the village Charity shop

The painting today is called "Two Yellow coats" and I've just noticed one of them has yellow shoes too.