In our last post, we wrote about colour comparisons. Today, we are going to make up names for colours. It is a similar activity. Think about a paint chart, or the names for lipstick colours or the colours of cars. We make up all kinds of phrases to suggest a colour: strawberry blush; dead salmon; … Continue reading Colour chart
Colour – or lack of it – can be hard to describe. What colour was it? we ask. ‘Blue,’ we are told. But that could mean a blue, pale as forget-me-nots or a blue so dark that you might think it was black. The blue compared with forget-me-nots, might make us think of spring, of … Continue reading White as …
Here’s an idea that comes from a workshop run by the poet, Lavinia Greenlaw. Look at these tree similes: … as white as milk … … as white as asbestos … … as white as angel’s bones … Think about, talk with others, about what images of white each of those comparisons give rise to. … Continue reading … as white as …
