Mary Gartside
White Yellow Orange Scarlet Green Blue Crimson Violet
Arranging found color today and thinking of the newly published, ‘Mary Gartside (c.1755-1819) Abstract Visions of Colour’ invaluable scholarship by Dr. Alexandra Loske. 
Mary Gartside’s eight colors illustrated “Colour Circle, from the Borrow Copy of Mary Gartside, An Essay on Light and Shade 1805, engraving with hand-colouring.” 
Not only did Gartside write about colour theory, but she brought in abstraction with her ‘colour blots.’ The ‘white blot’ captures the tints of our grey skies as of late. 
2 Images from Mary Gartside (c.1755-1819) Abstract Visions of Colour published by Thomas Heneage Art Books.
Find more information on Alexandra Loske and her colour research, here. Mary Gartside (c.1755-1819) Abstract Visions of Colour published by Thomas Heneage Art Books