Deep Magenta

It sure had been a hot day with 31c. The southerly has just started to blow through and the temperature is just 19c and dropping. I can see the dark clouds coming up from down south.

I was going to go for a walk today and get a few shots of the wonderful roses at the hotel nearby but it was just to hot and windy. The poor roses must be really suffering in this weather.

Here is the blip I did the other day of this Peony but this one is more of a double one. Luckily I took this shot this morning before the gale force winds picked up and it got so hot.

In science and culture
Shades of magenta began to appear in art soon after it was introduced. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) used a shade of magenta in 1890 in his portrait of Marie Lagadu, and in some of his South Seas paintings.

Henri Matisse and the members of the Fauvist movement used magenta and other non-traditional colours to surprise viewers, and to move their emotions through the use of bold colours.

Since the mid-1960s, water based fluorescent magenta paint has been available to paint psychedelic black light paintings. (Fluorescent cerise, fluorescent chartreuse yellow, fluorescent blue, and fluorescent green.)