in bed with mona lisa

If you’re into vast skies and rolling hills covered with heather in bloom, exquisite man-made grey stone walls crisscrossing them, beige-grey stone houses with slate roofs in which you can just...

https://inbedwithmonalisa.com/2022/04/18/in-bed-with-unison/

As I needed a link so that readers of the wonderful Institute of Making‘ s newsletter could read the full version… there it is! Dear Pigment, I thought I would give you an update of where I�...

https://inbedwithmonalisa.com/2021/02/22/dear-pigment-a-love-letter/

I know, I know, there should be caps to Natural and Pigments. It just looked more yummy this way and in bed with… natural pigments, just the thought, hey? Bit messy perhaps but ever so colourfu...

https://inbedwithmonalisa.com/2021/02/06/in-bed-with-natural-pigments/

Just as I cross the border from Canada into the States, the sun emerges from the lake on my right… It’s beautiful, and I’m early. I stop for a coffee with a sunrise view, then drive leisure...

https://inbedwithmonalisa.com/2020/01/11/in-bed-with-she-who-whispers-to-the-ochres-heidi-gustafson/

I always found bucket lists an idiotic first world annoyingly greedy ‘even-if-it-costs-the-Earth-I-want-to-have-it-all’ sort of thing. Until I realised I had one! Mine of course, haha, is of ...

https://inbedwithmonalisa.com/2019/06/01/pigments-on-my-bucket-list/

Until a couple of months ago I hardly knew and cared even less about Albert Henry Munsell. Researching colour I had come across some of his beautifully painted charts and somehow knew he was rele...

https://inbedwithmonalisa.com/2018/12/10/munsell-chips-anyone/

If one says “Red” (the name of a colour) and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be...

https://inbedwithmonalisa.com/2018/03/19/naming-the-fugitive-the-elusive-the-unnameable-part-1/

I could have subtitled this post “12 shades of grey” but perhaps, just perhaps mind you, it might have been going a little too far… and yet they exist: Cold grey, Blue grey, Light grey, Eng...

https://inbedwithmonalisa.com/2017/11/29/in-bed-with-the-sennelier-family/

Leaving the Chroma factory after been given a visit of the whole place, I muse that I’ve only got half of a story. Yes, I’ve collected evidence: the colour spills, the empty tubes, the rolls ...

https://inbedwithmonalisa.com/2017/11/05/in-bed-with-jim-cobb-aka-mr-chroma/

Ochre? Ocher? I’ll choose the first spelling… No offense intended, ochre is simply more visually pleasing to me, in all probability only because it’s closet to the French spelling I have al...

https://inbedwithmonalisa.com/2017/09/03/in-bed-with-ochre/