Color PsychologyWhen you combine color psychology with an understanding of color meanings and application, you create a compelling base of knowledge that will serve you in any art, design or creative endeavor. Color Psychology and PerceptionEven when you are tuned in to the color around you, like on a sunny day when a wall looks […]
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Read Time: 4 min Hickethier color theory, which uses pure pigment, makes it easy to mix colors creating 1000 colors all from just five pigments.
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Color Meaning & SymbolismThere is more to color than just what meets the eyes. Color influences perceptions, touches emotions, and sways decisions. Explore the fascinating ways our physical bodies, our brains, and our cultures shape the ways in which we interact with colors. Green Color Meaning and SymbolismGreen is a symbol of rebirth. It’s the […]
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Read Time: 3 min Study Finds That Your Night Light Can Change Your MoodWhen it comes to some of the health hazards of light at night, a new study suggests that the color of the light can make a big difference. In a study involving hamsters, researchers found that blue light had the worst effects on mood-related measures, followed closely […]
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Read Time: 4 min Every design project is a balancing act. Designers must manage an array of elements – composition, color, lighting, function, shape, and texture – in order to create a cohesive, compelling space. Whether you’re tackling a small scale room remodel or you’re designing an eye-catching poster, one of the biggest challenges both professional and amateur designers […]
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Read Time: 3 min Louise Nevelson was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Her sculptures appear puzzle-like, with multiple intricately cut pieces placed into wall sculptures or independently standing pieces, often 3-D. A unique feature of her work is that her figures are often painted in monochromatic black or white. Although there aren’t […]
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Read Time: 3 min Kazimir Malevich was a Russian painter and sculptor founder of the artistic and philosophical school of Suprematism, and his ideas about forms and meaning in art would eventually constitute the theoretical underpinnings of non-objective, or abstract, art.
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Read Time: 6 min Each year some of us celebrate the new year by looking back over events of the year just past. Others ring in the new year with a commitment to a healthier diet, regular workout routine and a new pair of yoga pants. For companies that sells color “out with the old in with the new” […]
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Read Time: 5 min Ancient civilizations believed in this stones cooling properties both to cool boiling water and hot tempers. Today, this icy blue colored stone is perfect to warm the heart of someone dear to you.
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Read Time: 3 min If your birthday falls in the chilly eleventh month of the year, you can seek warmth in your beautiful, golden tones of the November birthstone color, Topaz
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Read Time: 6 min As valuable as ruby and emerald but worlds apart in appearance, The October birthstone color, is an entity all its own that sends off a rainbow of colors. There is no other stone quite like an Opal.
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Read Time: 6 min The color that comes to mind for most when they imagine the September birthstone color is a deep, velvety blue. A shade like the evening at dusk to the vivid blue of the sky on a bright summer day.
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Read Time: 5 min The geek in me loves to collect list of things related to color, in this case, U.S. cities with color names. The gypsy in me wants to venture out to see if these places live up to their colorful names.
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Read Time: 5 min Pure and pretty, April birthstone color, Peridot is a perpetual pleaser.
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Read Time: 5 min Songs use color meaning to communicate and idea or emotion. I put together a long list of song with color in the titles or lyrics and add to it as new songs come out or as older songs come to mind. Is your favorite song with color on the list?
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Read Time: 4 min The July birthstone color is a rare gem with a special allure that has captured our hearts and imaginations since ancient times. This “King of Gems” it is associated with the desires of the heart.
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Read Time: 6 min Cherished as symbols of purity and perfection, most think of pearls in soft white, but the June birthstone color could be any lustrous hues from gold to pistachio and platinum to peacock blue.
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Read Time: 6 min Always green, vibrant, and full of life, the May birthstone color, Emerald, in all of its brilliance is a color only Mother Earth could have created and carat for carat are more valuable than diamonds
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Read Time: 5 min The ultimate gemstone, diamonds are rare and revered; close to perfection as a gem can be. The April birthstone color is perfect when colorless but may be even more valuable when it’s not.
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Read Time: 3 min The birthstone color for March means “sea water” and that is what comes to mind when you look into the depths of this gem. Its lucid color is reminiscent of the turquoise water of the Caribbean.
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