Creative Life Blog
A toast to the colorful life. Cheers to full glasses and fulfilling experiences.
Basic Colour Theory, part 1
Colours can be a lot of fun to experiment with--they can take a black and white outline and create something that pops and sizzles! Most people have a colour they favour or are drawn to. They can even express emotions in an abstract way--blue and grey for sadness, yellow for joy, red for passion. Yet for how important they are and how influential they can be in art, they're something of a mystery for people. We may think bright red and hot pink don't 'match', but we can't explain why. Green and orange may feel off or discordant, but explaining it can escape us. This is where Western color theory comes in! All colour is a matter of perception. When we see bl...view full post
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