The Brown Edition II | Collage week 44

I actually love the color brown. I know, strange. But it is true. I might not reach for it a lot when I am painting, but a warm brown feels welcoming and homely to me. It might be because it is the color of my childhood, or it might be because it is just natural and beautiful, but in any case, I like it.

So this is the second edition of very brown collages. The first one I made over 10 years ago: The brown edition I. Before that I also made a brown quilt, one that I still like, and today you’re getting seven new collages that are rather brownish. Enjoy.

The color brown, I realized, is anything but nondescript. It comes in as many hues as there are colors of earth, which is commonly presumed infinite.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Brown is neither one of the basic color perceptions nor a primary color used in color mixtures, but for human beings it is constantly present both in nature and in their everyday surroundings. It is the color of the earth itself — of rocks and sand, of the bark of trees, of the fur of animals. In that sense, at least, it could be called the basic color of everyday life.

— Kunio Fukuda

My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white.
My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I’m told they look orange in the night.
My hair is reddish blondish brown, but it’s silver when it’s wet,
and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.

— Shel Silverstein

Brown is a sober and sedate colour, grave and solemn, but not dismal, and contributes to the expression of strength, stability, and solidity, — vigour, warmth, and rusticity, — and in minor degree to the serious, the sombre, and the sad; not with the painter only, but also with the rhetorician and poet, with whom, nevertheless, many of the broken colours are yet “airy nothings” and “without a name.”

— George Field

What do you think, is brown a color for you?

Brown is the color of hearth and home — of dried herbs and stone-ground bread and freshly baked cookies. It represents all of the nurturing, life-sustaining, down-to-earth qualities of terra firma, the very shade of earth itself. Just as in the sturdy oak, brown represents roots, a steady, stable source of security, comfort, and normalcy. It is the color of fertile soil and plowed earth, buckskin and rawhide, weathered redwood, bison and mustang, frontier land — rugged and outdoorsy. It is pine cone and bracken, chipmunk and acorn, beaver and doe. Brown is considered a classic shade of solid substance.

— Leatrice Eiseman

Thank you so much for clicking over, taking a look and leaving me a comment below telling me which of these collages you like best – and why you like it. Take care.

Please also check out week 44 in 2013 (weaver’s edition) and
week 44 in 2018 (let it fall) if you have the time.

About this project: I am making one collage for each day of the year in 2025 and blogging seven at a time each week here. Thanks for helping me finish this by cheering me on. I appreciate you being here.
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365 collages in 2025 | previously w. 43 | week 44 | next week 45

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