“There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; it’s what we do with them that’s important” -Jim Rohn

Color wheels
Tinting river beds
Toning fields

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful —Pharrell Williams

Grass feathers
Stems bent for weather
Colors press

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will —John Sterling

Perpetual
Her palette rolling
Hues caress

Pink isn’t just a color. It’s an attitude too —Miley Cyrus

Engraving
Earth’s hues tints tones shades
Amazing

Color is a power which directly influences the soul —Wassily Kandinsky

Undertones
Infra evening shades
Ultra zones

There are colors we can’t see, but they’re connected to the ones we can, There’s a connection between everything —Wayne Shorter

Points of light
Exciting the orbs’
Rods and cones

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites —Marc Chagall

Rolling riffs
Hammering on drums
Skin and bones

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes, or dark lake with the treble —Wassily Kandinsky

Fragrant scene
Flagrant as flora
Sheers silk screen

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night —Rainer Maria Rilke

Colorfully
Rolling her gravures
Turns Mars green

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas —Edvard Munch

Editor’s note: The Earth Prints series was conceived while Pierre “Pepe” Leduc was on a train of thought, rolling over hundreds of miles of summer flora, alive with color. This post attempts to translate the emotive part of that which he calls “emotogravure,” when anyone asks him to describe his creative process.