Elizabeth Ann of Color & Convo

💙 The Color Blue: Origin, Influence & Healing Wisdom Blue is the long breath between thoughts. The horizon color. The place where sky meets soul. Let’s open this convo gently and thoroughly. 🌍 Origin & History of Blue When did blue appear? Blue is one of the last colors humans learned to create intentionally . Prehistory:  Rare in nature beyond sky and water. Early humans used blacks, reds, ochres, and whites first. Ancient Egypt (c. 3000 BCE):  First synthetic blue pigment, Egyptian Blue ,...

🌿 The Color Green: Origin, Culture & Healing Wisdom Green is the color of return. Return to balance. Return to breath. Return to the heart. 🌍 Origin of the Color Green Ancient roots:  Green pigments appeared early in human history through natural minerals and plants . Ancient Egyptians used malachite  for eye makeup and wall art as early as 2600 BCE. Language & perception:  Interestingly, many ancient cultures named colors in stages. Green often emerged after red, black, and white , once...

💛 ORIGIN OF THE COLOR YELLOW Yellow is one of humanity’s oldest companions . Its story winds through our earliest earth pigments: Ancient Origins Ochre (iron oxide)  was used as far back as 75,000 years ago  in cave art. Our ancestors ground the golden earth into a powder that lit their walls with sunlike strokes. Ancient Egyptians linked yellow to eternity  and the divine; many tomb paintings used orpiment  (arsenic sulfide), a brilliant but poisonous pigment. In ancient China, yellow was...