Colour my world

Colour is important to my style, I love seeing what I can create with a variety of techniques in Photoshop incorporating Digital Textures, Gradients and other tools to get the colour, tone and depth of colour I am after to express my art visually.

Making colour choices in your workflow can add depth, emotion and mood. I have written a number of BLOGS on making colour choices and using colour. The power of colour is inescapable. Colour affects your behavior, moods, and thoughts. Your reactions to colours are often deeply personal and ingrained in your own experiences.

Fun Facts about Colour

The first known theory of colour was developed by Aristotle who believed it was sent by God from heaven through celestial rays of light. He suggested that all colours came from white and black and related them to the four elements – water, air, earth, and fire.Surprisingly his beliefs on colour were widely held for over 2,000 years until replaced by those of Newton.

It has been said that Leonardo da Vinci preferred to meditate in a lavender or purple-coloured light.

Depending on our cultural background the significance of colours may vary significantly. While the colour white is used in many Western countries to represent purity and innocence, it is seen as a symbol of mourning in many Eastern countries.

Some 75 percent of small children choose purple over other colours.

This is a collection of my favourite colour quotes

◼ “Life is about using the whole box of crayons.” ~RuPaul

◼ “Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.” ~Wassily Kandinsky

◼ “Colour is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment.” ~Claude Monet

◼ “I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.” ~Georgia O’Keeffe

◼ “Nature always wears the colours of the spirit.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

◼ "Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn. " ~ Marilyn Monroe

◼ “Colour's given me rainbows of fun.” ~ Anthony Tickle

◼ “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh

◼ “Colours, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.” ~ Pablo Picasso

◼ “If one says ‘red’ – the name of colour and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.” ~ Josef Albers

◼ “I found I could say things with colours that I couldn’t say in any other way – things that I had no words for.” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

◼ “Colour does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it.” ~ Pierre Bonnard

◼ “Life is like a box of crayons” ~ John Mayer

◼ “Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways”. ~Oscar Wilde

◼ “In nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light.” ~Hans Hofmann