Colouring-in your life
This is the second in the series of journalling inspiration based on colour (see Thinking in Colour, Sunday 14 January, for the first one.)
2. Exploring colour
Jot down the answers to the following questions:
a. What colour(s) did you have at your wedding? (Bridesmaids dresses, bouquet & flowers, accessories, etc.; your outfit, if it wasn’t white)b. If you had a party with a colour theme and a white church hall as a background, what colours would you use to decorate it – banners, tablecloths, flowers, crockery?
c. What is your favourite flower colour?
d. What colour car would you ideally like (or maybe you have it…)
Now:
e. Look up dictionary definitions of colour – eg“a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"”
f. Colour mixing is different depending on whether you are mixing light or paint…..
Naming colours is important in naming paint, lipstick and eyeshadow, lingerie, wool, cardstock… Look at the names of the colours in the Bazzill range, for example, and jot down your favourites (names of colours rather than the colours themselves).
g. Get out your colour wheel – or print out this one - http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~psyc351/Images/ColorWheel2.jpg
Explore some interesting colour illusions
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_lilacChaser/index.html
Colour is important in clothing/fashion, interiors, make-up and grooming. It’s even thought to have healing properties
http://www.colourtherapyhealing.com/colour_fun/
Colour is not an property of what we are looking at – it is something created in the brain as a result of the way your eyes interpret wavelengths of light. Colour is an invention of the human brain. Without our eyes, there is no such thing as colour – so everything must be in the equivalent of greyscale. Were there aliens, colour might not be one of their senses and they might have an additional sense or completely different senses from our five…
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