Color My World

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You can always Color My World. To begin with, imagine the world around you without colors for a minute, how uninteresting and dull life would be. For colors play a vital role in our daily lives. Indeed, color influences our activities and reactions.

Primary colors such as red, yellow, blue, and green are all part of our color psychology. Alternatively, these colours represent body, emotion, mind, and the essential interdependence and harmony between these three elements, respectively.

It you think of the way we describe certain emotions (seeing red, feeling blue, green with envy), there’s no denying that color and mood are inextricably linked.

There are several reasons why colors are able to influence how we feel. “We react on multiple levels of association with colors.  There are social or culture levels as well as personal relationships with particular colors,” explains Leslie Harrington, executive director of The Color Association of The United States, which forecasts color trends.

In addition, we all have an innate reaction to color. For example, when you look at red, it does increase your heart rate. It is a stimulating color. This goes back to caveman days of fire and danger and alarm.

Furthermore, we learn certain associations with color.  Such as red making your heart race since it is linked with fire trucks and ambulances (in other words, alarm).  Then yellow having positive association simply because it is the color of your beloved grandmother’s kitchen.

Per Harrington “As you get older, you become much more conscious of those learned reactions than the innate ones.”

Color My World 

“The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.” – Edvard Munch

Since the beginning, colors stir our emotions and jazz up our lives. Additionally, colors can stimulate our imagination to express taste, smell, and emotions.

In fact, I use color combined with different textures through my brush strokes, palette knives, and yes, just my fingers to create expressiveness. This painting titled “Color My World” is a reflection that My world is one filled with color and will probably always be. For colors are active, eye-catching with a friendly nature that may induce a sense of courage, energy and happiness.

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.” – Pablo Picasso

Dare to Feel,

Red

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