Margaret Almon Mosaics

My love of orange appeared when I started making art in my 30′s.  My sister loved orange as a child, but I was unmoved, baffled.  I discovered that orange was a contentious subject for some color theorists at the beginning of the 20th Century.  Albert Munsell worked on developing a color notation system, like a [...]

In 2009, Dr. Mas Subramanian at Oregon State University was exploring the electronic properties of manganese oxides, and after heating a sample to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, it turned an intense blue.  The pigment is stable and lightfast.  During my brief experience with watercolor, I read warnings about colors that fade quickly, called fugitive colors, as [...]