Take A Little Leap

by Beverley Harper Tinsley

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$65

Dimensions

8.000 x 8.000 inches

Title

Take A Little Leap

Artist

Beverley Harper Tinsley

Medium

Painting - Watercolor And Graphite

Description

Take A Little Leap
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A vibrantly colored, light-hearted fantastical bird takes a joyous little leap. This creature's chartreuse and turquoise plumage will brighten up any space. Sometimes I just feel like painting strange birds.
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And now for some slightly random information from wikipedia:
Chartreuse is a color halfway between yellow and green that was named because of its resemblance to the green color of one of the French liqueurs called green chartreuse, introduced in 1764. Similarly, chartreuse yellow is a yellow color mixed with a small amount of green that was named because of its resemblance to the color of one of the French liqueurs called yellow chartreuse, introduced in 1838. The French word chartreuse means "charter house". The monasteries that the monks of the Carthusian order (who started producing Chartreuse liqueur in 1764) live in, the first one of which was established in 1082 by Saint Bruno, are called charter houses because they were chartered--and given generous material support--by the Duke of Burgundy known as Philip the Bold when he took over the area in 1378. Philip the Bold's elaborately decorated tomb was initially installed at a Carthusian charter house when he died in 1404. The term chartreuse was first used to refer to "a pale apple-green" in 1884.[6] This was codified to refer to this brighter color when the X11 colors were formulated in 1987; by the early 1990s, they became known as the X11 web colors. The web color chartreuse is the color precisely halfway between green and yellow, so it is 50% green and 50% yellow.
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Chartreuse is a French liqueur made by the Carthusian Monks since 1737 according to the instructions set out in the secret manuscript given to them by Maréchal d'Estrées in 1605. It is composed of distilled alcohol aged with 130 herbs, plants and flowers. The liqueur is named after the Monks' Grande Chartreuse monastery, located in the Chartreuse Mountains in the general region of Grenoble in France. The liqueur is produced in their distillery in the nearby town of Voiron (Isère).
Chartreuse gives its name to the color chartreuse. It is one of the handful of liquors that continues to age and improve in the bottle.
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Some words used to describe this painting are:
take a little leap, watercolor, beverley harper tinsley, bird, peacock, strange bird, weird bird, fantasy, fantastical, peacock, gourd bird, whimsy, whimsical, bright, vibrant, birds, feathers, beak, tail, wings, fly, child, children, yellow, green, blue, turquoise, orange, gold, red, phoenix, fun, funny, funny bird, cartoon, animation, silly, joy, joyous, cute, light-hearted, pattern, plumage, chartreuse

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