Orange (colour) paint straight from the tube. Paul Cézanne did not use orange pigment, but created his own oranges with touches of yellow, red and ochre against a blue background. Toulouse-Lautrec often used oranges in the skirts of dancers and gowns of Parisiennes in the cafes and clubs he portrayed. For him it was the colour of festivity and amusement. The post-impressionists went even further with orange. Paul Gauguin used oranges as backgrounds, for clothing and skin colour, to fill his pictures with light and exoticism. But no other painter used orange so often and dramatically as Vincent van Gogh. who had
Oh In Colour series and stated that he would have made more programs had he been given the opportunity.) The format is essentially identical to Milligan's Q series; a series of madcap sketches, typically lacking in plot or cohesion, with the cast and crew often donning bizarre or inappropriate outfits during pieces. The show ran for 30 minutes without commercial breaks, as is typical for programmes broadcast on the BBC. "Oh In Colour" was broadcast in colour, however the only surviving colour sequence is from episode six, the final broadcast. The entire series ironically exists as black-and-white telerecordings made for foreign sale. One