I wanted to post this a lil' bit earlier but I have been a *smidge* busy. I had some interesting news to share. For those unaware, I am slightly colorblind, I have been as long as I can remember. It was first brought to me in elementary school, I was made fun of (only briefly) for coloring in my oceans purple instead of blue, as I didn't see all too much of a difference. As an adult, it most commonly affected me with my artwork, I get green confused with yellow, white and pink, etc.

I've always accepted it and I was never able to pursue help for it, I've been told many times over that they make glasses for these things but I've never looked into them because of the cost. That is until Christmas, when my boyfriendfops gave me a gift-card to the Enchroma company. The reason I'm only posting this now is that because of covid, it was difficult to get an appointment at a place where I could see these in person before making a decision on a purchase. Eventually I gave up and just went for it.

So...now I have them! And...they work. That is understating how effective they are...I can't really put it into words how much it has changed my vision. First off, I know they work because I can definitely very clearly see the difference between that yellow and green, that white and pink, and so on. What I never realized was how, overall, over saturated the world was for me. I had gone outside and looked at the trees, and the sky, and my house, my road, things I've seen so many times. They looked so different, I can't say "normal", but everything before felt more like a cartoon compared to how they are now.

This is a pretty big thing for me, and I wish I could articulate what I'm feeling better, but I at least wanted to put it out there. I don't know how this will impact my artwork going forward, I took a look at lot of my work and found things I liked more, liked less, but I've always tried to keep things close to their original references with great success and I suppose I will continue to do the same. I do want to do more foliage though...