Silver or metallic gray is a colour tone resembling gray that is a representation of the colour of polished silver. The visual sensation usually associated with the metal silver is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid colour, because the shiny effect is due to the material’s brightness varying with the […]
White
White is the lightest colour and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of fresh snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green […]
Brown
Brown is a composite colour. In the CMYK colour model used in printing or painting, brown is made by combining red, black and yellow, or red, yellow, and blue. In the RGB colour model used to project colours onto television screens and computer monitors, brown is made by combining red and green, in specific proportions. […]
Purple/Violet
Purple may refer to any of a variety of colours with hue between red and blue. However, the meaning of the colour term purple differs even among native speakers of English, for example when comparing speakers from the United Kingdom with those from the United States ).Purple is closely associated with Violet, and the meanings […]
Blue
Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model. It lies between violet and green on the visible spectrum. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. An optical […]
Green
Green is the colour between blue and yellow on the visible spectrum. In subtractive colour systems, used in painting and colour printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and cyan; in the RGB colour mode, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colours, along with red and […]
Yellow
Yellow is the colour between orange and green on the visible spectrum. It is a primary colour in subtractive colour systems, used in painting or colour printing. In the RGB colour model, used to create colours on television and computer screens, yellow is a secondary colour made by combining red and green at equal intensity. […]
Red
Today we are beginning a series of posts highlighting colours, starting appropriately with Red the first colour in the rainbow. However our explorations will enivitably go far beyond the rainbow itself but perhaps not to the extent of Jospeh’s Coat of Many Colours. Red is the colour at the long wavelength end of the visible […]
Ruth Fazal
Born in England, Ruth Fazal began her musical studies on the piano and the violin, attending Dartington College for the Arts, before going on to graduate from the Guildhall School of Music in London. Further studies on the violin took Ruth to Paris, France. Since emigrating to Canada, and living in Toronto, Ruth has performed […]
The Songs of Marie Lloyd
In today’s blog I want to celebrate Marie Lloyd the ‘Queen of the Music Hall, sadly there is no footage of her actually performing on the stage, although some recording of her singing do exist. Her daughter Marie Lloyd Jr. did give performances in which she impersonated her mother so I have included these as […]