If you think of the whole world as a composition, then there are brushstrokes of color everywhere.
I found these in Allentown, PA, this last weekend. Look at them and enjoy this world where bright spots are everywhere just for the looking.
Some colors are muted or subdued:
And some are loud and clear in their message.
And then there are the combinations of color and pattern that catch your eye.
Go ahead, walk around. Take a look.
Claudia McGill and Her Art World 
I think you would love the brightly coloured harbour villages of the west coast of Scotland. I lived near Tarbert but there is also Tobermory and Portree among others.
I have always thought it too bad our climate and scenery doesn’t lend itself to bright colored houses too well, but snow seems to make things into a whole different picture, and color that might be garish, or emphasizing the tiredness of the rest of a building, just glowed, when I saw it in the city last weekend.
Houses, Allentown, two of my favorite things!
Yes. The city looked good in the snow!
When I first started painting, an experienced artist told me that I’d start seeing the world differently. And I do! Just this morning I walked out the back and admired the light blue of the sky reflected in the (damp) shadows on my garage roof, next to the warm orange of the rising sun. I just can’t help it anymore. The funniest example, though, was when I noticed interesting, abstract shapes reflected on a toilet button: https://chrislt.art/2021/01/16/funny-the-things-you-notice-as-an-artist/ 😆
Absolutely right. You get an eye for details that no one else even bothers to look at. Our world is beautiful in the oddest places. I love your story.
Thanks, Claudia. 🙂
Beautiful. I love the blue storefront
Thank you. It caught my eye as we were at the traffic light. Leaped out from the surroundings!
Love how you view things – you are right – there is a lot of art and artistic inspiration in daily life around us. You have such a great eye and those photos are wonderful!
Thank you. You know how sometimes you are just going along and things you have seen before suddenly present themselves differently? That is what happened here.