Psychology Of Green

I have organized my inks by a very simple cross reference method and discovered two interesting things. One, I have a lot more ink than I thought and two, I have a lot more green than I thought. I suspected that the majority of my inks would be in the blue or brown range but green is the winner. I like green but never knew I liked it this much. Does this have some deeper significance?

Probably not, but you never know....

Hello Drawing, et al,

Well, in the UK, it was considered a mark of insanity to use green ink.

However, I've also read that green is the easiest color on the human eye and that it also stimulates thought and creativity... which is why so many school rooms, school bus interiors and blackboards are/were green, (it's also why pastel mint green has come to be known as "institutional green").

I painted my study a nice turquoise green... similar to J. Herbin's Vert Reseda for this reason. It must work, too... I just got a bonus and a promotion using an idea I hatched and developed in that study.

Be well and enjoy life.

- Anthony

Just to follow-up... it could just mean that you really like green... like me.

The horror! The horror!

- Anthony

Green may be my favorite color, but alas I haven't yet found a green ink that appeals to me. Truly a paradox. J. Herbin Vert Empire is currently my favorite, but it has zero water resistance and fades easily.

Thanks to all. Thank you Anthony, I shall have to embrace my inner Kurtz and welcome green into my heart.

Thanks to all. Thank you Anthony, I shall have to embrace my inner Kurtz and welcome green into my heart.

Good deal.

- Anthony

You probably got there step by step without noticing, like me and my current 8 blues; Vert Empire strikes me as an authoritative ink, while verde muschiato looks really wild with its yellow undertones, and Chiku Rin strikes me as a free spirit. When I thought all inks were black or blue they would have been wild, but now they are tame compared to my reds and oranges, but they seem to get along with other inks on a page. Not that any of this means much!

Congrats on the bonus and promotion, Anthony!

I love this season of grass and leaves and in general the colour green. For a long time no green ink was very satisfactory for long but recently I got Diamine Umber and I am in love with it. It's not surprisng if green ink spurs creativity as it's the colour of growing vegetation. Drawing61, if you're surrounded by a sea of green ink, I say wallow in it (not literally! 😃 ) and enjoy it's vivacity!

I was like Drawing61, but with black inks.... [Where did all those black inks COME from? I've had some for 4 or 5 years that I've never even tried -- including 2 bottles that were swag from DCSS a couple of different years....] And I almost NEVER use black ink.

As for green, I had an English teacher in high school who said that green is the middle of the spectrum, just as Thursday is the middle of the week, and the #4 is the middle of the (somewhat magic) number 7. Of course she also taught modern poetry by having us look at Grateful Dead song lyrics....

I would have said that I didn't have a lot of green inks, but I did a quick look at the inventory file and I have 22 or 23 (!) different ones at least as samples -- and that's more than I have of grey inks.... But of those, there's not a lot I actually like all that much. The ones I do like are mostly ones that lean a little yellow, but aren't -- like Diamine Kelly Green -- too light to be really legible.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Green with envy.

But a look outside, and there is green everywhere. Pantone's color of the year is Greenery "symbolic of new beginnings". Which is also Spring.

My favorite ink colors are green and brown, then purple.

Congrats on the bonus and promotion, Anthony!

Thank you, Joane... that's kind of you to say... I really appreciate it.

- Anthony

Green is the color of life. Christian churches use it during Pentecost. Muslims use it preferentially. Native Americans use it as, IIRC, one of the four directional colors.

Green is the color of life. Christian churches use it during Pentecost...

Hi Russ, et al,

We use red for Pentecost; green is for "ordinary time"... which is most of the time.

- Anthony

Hi,

Human vision has a sensitivity peak at Green, but I don't know if that makes it more 'attractive' than other colours.

I was traumatised when I did an Ink Review of Lamy Green; and am [slowly] working my way back to a healthy relationship with Green ink. (My paternal G.Dad is a Chartered Accountant, so always has a pen loaded with Green ink.)

As ever, use what you like when you like.

I've opened a few envelopes that displayed shocking surprises. And I have no doubt that recipients of my letters have been profoundly bored at my choice of ink. (Except for Visconti Blue and Pelikan Edelstein Topaz.)

Bye,

S1

Hi,

 

Human vision has a sensitivity peak at Green, but I don't know if that makes it more 'attractive' than other colours.

Hi Sandy, et al,

When I said green is easiest on the human eye; I meant that as a literal physical manifestation, i.e., "soothing"... not in the colloquial sense of (physical) attractiveness.

Be well and enjoy life.

- Anthony

Having liked emerald of chivor I wanted to try another green and awaiting kWZ std green #3 to arrive. If anyone here has used that i would appreciate your thoughts. Being a painter i like a variety of greens which i find to be calming

I find I have nearly twice as many blues as any other colour, a mild surprise to me, with red / green / turquoise / violet groups all nearly equal numbers, depending on how I classify some. Three browns and a single yellow trail the field.

I love green. I cannot explain why, but I realised I have a lot of green inks, and when I like blue inks, it is always blue/green, never plain blue.

Green, in Portugal, is the colour of hope. I like deep greens, not the light, "screaming" greens such as Diamine Green Jade, and others alike.

Green is soothing,.

Pseudo88 I very much like your poetic description of 3 of my favorite greens.

According to Wiki, green is the second favourite colour among Americans. After blue, of course. Perhaps it may mean that there are more blues and greens in brand's inventories to choose from, but you happened to like green more. Both blue and green are calming and relaxing colours.

I like muted greens the best, such as Diamine salamander and umber.