March 9: Color Me Bluetiful

For tonight's activity, I purchased a brand new box of Crayola crayons, 120 to be exact. The first thing that I had to do was to put them in "order". You separate them by colors, and you place them in rainbow order with skin colors, browns, blacks, and Olympic colors (gold, silver, bronze) at the end. I love to color, and I love crayons. 

I have been through several coloring stages in my life. When I was around 7, I adored periwinkle and seafoam green together. I colored everything with that. As I got older, I discovered glitter crayons, and I still adore them. I would pick them out of the big vat of crayons we have at our house. Anything that has glitter looks better, but really, these are very bold colors, so they look better on the page. My most recent colors that I enjoy are fern and cerise. Fern is the exact green that is my favorite color, and cerise is a wonderful magenta-y color that you just have to love. The colors I am looking forward to trying in this brand new box of crayons are: pink flamingo, pink sherbet, almond, mango tango (orange), shadow, caribbean green, and bluetiful.

Other colors that are all time favorites and usually make it into my picture:

• dandelion, 
• chestnut or mahogany, 
• red (yes, just plain red), 
• denim, 
• robin's egg blue, 
• green, 
• salmon, 
• scarlet (which is more orange than red) and if I have to, 
• plum. I don't actually care for the color purple. 

If you haven't figured it out yet, my three favorite colors are red, yellow, and green (in the traffic light color).  

The colors I know I avoid are cornflower. I mean who can even see that blue after you color with it? Red violet is another crayon that is NOT for me, and what color is this anyway because there is no red in red violet or even in violet red. I don't care for violet purple or purple violet either. I am no fan of the neon colors within the box either. The lighter the crayon, the less chance I use it.

Coloring relaxes me, and I can let my creative juices flow. Crayons are a good medium for me because I outline on the black with darker coloring, and then, I color lightly inside. After listing all these beautiful colors and their names, I love their names!, I am going to go color!