A Year of Late Cornish Day 297

Dew Cansves Dedh Pajer Ügens ha Seytek

De Yow, pempes warn ügens mis Hedra.

Thursday, 25^th October

Gelwys “kensa liw” ew rüdh gen limnoryon. Na ell anjei y wil gen cabuly warbarth liwyow erel. Ma dew “kensa liw” aral. Thens blou po glas ha melyn. “Nessa liw” ell boas gwres gen cabuly warbarth dew kensa liw. Ma rüdh ha blou o cül purpur; ma rüdh ha melyn o cül rüdhvelyn po oranj; ma blou ha melyn o cül gwer po glas. An kelgh a liwyow ma ew dhort lever screfys gen Moses Harris en 1776. Ma nessa liw adall dhe pub kensa liw. Ma gwer adall dhe rüdh; ma purpur adall dhe velyn; ma rüdhvelyn adall dhe blou. En Sowsnek, gelwys ens liwyow “complementary”. Na ora vy an ger rag hedna en Kernôwek. Oll warbarth ma’n trei kensa liw o cül dû. Nag eus odhom dhe limnoryon a berna paynt dû; anjei ell y wil. Monet, lymner Frenk, a wras liwyow tewal gen liwyow kemeskys, heb dû. En imach, ma rüdh reb gwer owth hevely moy rüdh. E’n keth maner, melyn reb purpur ew moy bewek ha blou reb rüdhvelyn ew moy crev, car dre hevel.   

Red is called a primary colour by artists. They can’t make it by mixing together other colours. There are two other “primary colours”. They are blue and yellow. “Secondary colours” can be made by mixing together two primary colours. Red and blue make purple; red and yellow make orange; blue and yellow make green. This circle of colours is from a book written by Moses Harris in 1776. There is a secondary colour opposite each primary colour. Green is opposite to red; purple is opposite yellow; orange is opposite blue. In English they are called “complementary” colours. I don’t know the word for that in Cornish. All together, the three primary colours make black. Artists don’t need to buy black paint; they can make it. Monet, a French painter, made dark colours with mixed colours, without black. In a picture, red beside green seems redder. Similarly, yellow beside purple is more lively and blue beside orange is stronger, so it seems.