Today’s inktober prompt
Rescue, was particular easy to pick
what to draw. Last year I painted the local Life Savers down at Venus Bay practicing in their rescue IRB (an inflatable rescue boat) crashing through the surf. They
do well in the interclub and national competitions. There seems to be a lot of
skill in driving and jockeying these craft but I suspect there is fun to be had
as well. I had entered a watercolour I painted of it aas
submission to the Poetry of Watercolour
exhibition at the Victorian Artist Society. Alas; it hadn’t sold so it now
hangs on the wall in our family room,
At the time I was sketching the waves looking at the colour
in the late afternoon as the sun came through the breaking waves. It’s a very
distinctive bluey green. It’s neither an easy to photograph or mix as a colour
in paint. There is a chromatic intensity to it. It is very close to the colour
that Whilhelm Ostwald described as sea green, his compliment to his red. I tend
to agree, the ocean’s blue sits nicely against the green of the breaking wave,
with the contrasting white foam and the red and yellow of the rescue craft and
the life vest.
Slightly later a group of researchers in the USA reported on
experiment Where they had exactly controlled The wavel of microbursts of lasers, exactly the green cones of their returns. I won’t go into the details here but
I’ll direct you to four blog posts I wrote about this grain that they called
OLO.
see also
Part 1 The Quest for Sea Green
Part 2 When Art Meets Science: The Discovery of Olo
Part 3 AI, Technology and Traditional Obseration
Part 4 The Magic of Rare Optical Phenomena
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