DYLAN THOMAS AND COLOR (COMMENT).

DYLAN THOMAS AND COLOR (COMMENT). After reading the quote from Van Gogh about a painter’s palette in yesterday’s post (“a painter does well if he starts from the colours on his palette instead of starting from the colours in nature?”), Mary Jane reminded me of a passage in A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES. Dylan Thomas is asked about the “useless presents” (much preferred) that he got for Christmas. One of them was: “a painting book in which I could make the grass, the trees, the sea and the animals any colour I pleased, and still the dazzling sky-blue sheep are grazing in the red field under the rainbow-billed and pea-green birds.”