Blue Is The Colour

Blue Monday? Wasn’t it just? My day at work felt like a 20-hour day. Absolute nightmare. I cheered myself up by remembering all the blue stuff I love. When I look at my paintings, I’m always surprised at how prevalent the colour blue is. So, sucks to Monday being blue, I love all things blue. There’s the amazing album by The Beautiful South. It’s a genius album with some of the most depressing lyrics I’ve ever heard set to jaunty, lilting music:

Liitle Blue:

You don’t back a horse called Striding Snail
You don’t name your boat Titanic II
So why when I see your happy smiling face
Do I always end up singing Little Blue

Little Blue, how do you do
Your smile looks like heaven
But your eyes hold a storm about to brew
Little Blue
How can a flower so pretty
Be so laden down with dew
Little Blue

Then there are my boys Elvis Costello & The Attractions and their equally wonderful Country album, ‘Almost Blue’:

Brown To Blue:

We stood there in the courthouse room so close but far apart
You brought along the lawyer and I brought a broken heart
The judge pronounced the words the way you wanted him to do
You changed your name from Brown to Jones and mine from Brown to Blue

I couldn’t help my tears from falling on the courtroom floor
My love, they took away my right to love you anymore
My world just seemed to stop as I stood there so close to you
You changed your name from Brown to Jones and mine from Brown to Blue

Pure genius. How can I leave out ‘Starry Night’ by Van Gogh? It’s an amazing painting. When you look at it. you can hardly breathe – or maybe that’s just me. I also love Yves Klein Blue, the colour. Those tables of his are truly beautiful but they are some ridiculous price so I’ll have to DIY one some fine day.

No paean to the colour blue can exclude the sea and the sky. I bring you Coconut Beach in Badagry, Lagos. The sand, the palm trees, the Atlantic ocean, and that big, big, sky in both that picture and the one of Montana. AlaraApothecary, we colour you beautiful. Have a fabulous weekend.