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| Colours |
So lets start now.
Learn about colours and know what mood and emotion
it activates.
Each colour has negative as well as positive meanings which effect the mood..
Red : Energy, Enthusiasm, Outgoing, Action oriented, Spontaneous, Rash, War, Blood,
Yellow : Happiness, Growth, Wisdom, Knowledge, Focus, Coward, Ego, Caution.
Blue : Healing, Calmness, Mathematical, Musical, Logical, Passive, Peace, Cold.
Green : Peace, Environment, Prosperity, Luck, Calculative, Jealousy, Relax, Health, Cool colours
Orange : Attraction, Warmth, Appetite, Enthusiasm, Courage, Impatient, Dominant Energy, Warm colours
Violet : Spirituality, Royalty, Intuition, Meditation, Third eye, Sensitive, Emotional.
The above set of colours are primary and secondary colours.
There are more :
Pink : This colour is derived from mixing white and red. This means friendship, love, harmony, peace with self, playfulness, empathy.
Brown : This colour is derived from mixing red and black. This colour shows stability, strength, resilience, security, down to earth, safety, endurance.
Grey : This is a colour mixture of black and white. Depressing, neutral, calm, placid, dispassionate, conservative
Black : Associated with heavy objects, machinery, being diplomatic, glamour, evil, death, perseverance, executive, labour, meticulous.
White : Purity, Freshness, hygiene, simple, clean, peace.
Colours in visual arts are chosen by designers carefully.
Here are few examples where the following colours are used prominently.
. Red - Restaurant menus, Elementary toys, banner for sale, games, energy drink packaging,
.Orange - Food packaging, Carnival banners, food coupons, games, life jackets , divider cones in traffic area.
.Yellow - School buses, moving machinery vehicles, legal note pad, post it note card, traffic signal, traffic sign boards.
.Green - Cleaning products, Health products, medicines, recycled products.
.Blue - PPT, Banking, medicines, recycled products.
.Black- Machinery, evening party attire, High end luxury items like shoes, bags and jewelry.
.White - Wedding dress, sanitary products, medical attire,
Colour mixing game for all ages.
This activity is mind stimulating as when we mix different colours new colours are derived. One can name the colours as they wish too.
Creating new colours, one can use it on different products.
Do watch this interesting video game and one will get ideas to create more activities in visual arts.
