Colour Psychology

Colour can have an imediate effect on our sense of space. It can effect our judgement of the proportions of a space, infulence our perception of size and distance and focus our attention.  A room's colour can subconsciously help influence our mood to be more cheerful or melancholy, painting hung up on a wall can affect us in this way too. Strong colours are over stimulating while weaker colours can have a calming affect on people.

Some pages from my sketchbook.

 

Now that I had an idea of what each colour represented I decided to try experimenting with abstract painting.

Red Paintings

Red represents romance, warmth, courage, strength, danger, anger, energy and passion.

Orange Paintings

Orange represents food, warmth, fun, ethusiasm, flamboyance, playfulness and confidance

 Being sick with a chest infection for the past two weeks has really slowed down my progress but hopefully I'm over it now and I can get to work properly this week. :)