Bob Ross Would Be SO SOOO PROUD!

Read "Launching the Imagination" (Color: pages 55-63). Then start a new post in this forum with your name in the title and discuss the following questions:

1. How can color help increase the illusion of depth?
2. How can designers utilize color for emphasis?
3. Why do human beings respond emotionally to color?
4. What are your favorite colors and what emotions do you associate with them?
5. Why is symbolic color always culturally specific?
6. Update your blog for the week and post a link to your blog (target=new window); review your team member's blogs (optional: post comments on their blogs)

Reply and comment on at least 6 posts (starting with your team members' posts). Grade your team member's posts by assigning stars to their posts.

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1.) Hues and shades of a certain color can increase the illusion of depth. It's all about color and how it can be used to make the illusion of depth very much alive.

2.) Designers can use color for emphasis by using major contrast with other colors, isolation, or incorporating the color with shapes.

3.) Colors honestly just trigger emotions. We as humans, look at something and automatically have a reaction and have a certain feeling. When we see bright colors, we are automatically happy and hopeful. With darker colors, (depending on the shade and the actual color itself) we may feel sadness, anger, or even a sense of being calm. Darker colors tend to bring negative feelings... brighter colors tend to bring positive feelings. It's just how opperate. Colors represent a lot of things to us.

4.) My favorite colors are green and turqouise. Green makes me think of vibrance and life. Turquoise soothes me, it makes me feel calm. Turquoise is such a pretty color.

5.) In different cultures, colors can mean many things. It could be because of great ancestral stories passed down from one generation to the other or even it could have a religious purpose to it. For instance in India, green means fertility and faith. Around the United States, some view green as an evil color or even a color to mean jealousy. For some in the US it could even mean vibrance and growth. It all depends on the culture and what they associate with what color. You'd be surprised to find many different meanings from different cultures. Purple, in some Asian cultures, means death. Here in the US purple is not really associated with death, it's more of a fun color.