CHANGING COLORS

Once I watched an artist at the Madrigal Center in Ayala Alabang while designing a print for a coming art exhibit. He was using a black 'Cartolina' and white paint but every time the paint touches the black 'cartolina' it slowly turned pinkish and he was getting furious and very uneasy.

That was the time I came in so I was tempted to ask: "Why do you look so mad?" He explained to me the unexpected color changes. "Why get mad?" I asked further. "That is a discovery! You don't know how complicated the chemical reactions that took place for that color change to occur and you feel sad about it?. Don't you see, the color is giving out beautiful symbol of love?"

It was the month of February then, the Valentine's month of love which was symbolized by the color pink. That time war was also going on at the Gulf and that exactly was the color effect of blood-sand mixture.

But the artist who is sponsoring the exhibit, according to him, was an old man who won't probably be flattered by the resulting color at all.

At that time the color was further changing into a darker hue, yes it was turning into old rose and who won't like old rose color?

The artist's eyes brightened, a smile appeared on his face. After all, that color could be very well the motif for a wedding. How about old rose as the icing for the wedding cake?