This artwork is by Courtney Mencarini and given to her Tampah in 2013. |
Pretty neat, and the colors brighten the room, even on a dreary day. And...we've had our share of those lately. She used 35 crayons glued to the top of the canvas and warmed with a heat gun until they melted and the colored wax ran down the canvas. I began to read the names of the colors and realized that some of them don't exist anymore. But, before I tell you which colors do not exist anymore, I should give you some background on the Crayola Crayon factory that is about 50 miles to the east of my home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was in 1903 that Crayola released its very first box of colored crayons. There were only eight colors in the box: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown and black. Since that day in 1903, they have released more than 120 different colors including colors named periwinkle, denim and Caribbean green (one of my favorites). But during that time, they not only added colors, they discarded some of them also. One of the colors that has been deleted has an unusual background behind it.
The very first color: Prussian blue |
All these colors were eliminated in 1990 at a mass retirement party. |
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