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    Colors evoke powerful emotions and memories. Each color has distinct psychological associations that have been studied for centuries. According to research, red represents strength and aggression but also anger, blue represents intelligence but also sadness, yellow represents happiness and creativity but also anxiety, and so on. At an expressive arts studio, every color is important for releasing inner feelings and experiences through painting.

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    Colors evoke powerful emotions and memories. Each color has distinct psychological associations that have been studied for centuries. According to research, red represents strength and aggression but also anger, blue represents intelligence but also sadness, yellow represents happiness and creativity but also anxiety, and so on. At an expressive arts studio, every color is important for releasing inner feelings and experiences through painting.

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    Colors evoke powerful emotions and memories. Each color has distinct psychological associations that have been studied for centuries. According to research, red represents strength and aggression but also anger, blue represents intelligence but also sadness, yellow represents happiness and creativity but also anxiety, and so on. At an expressive arts studio, every color is important for releasing inner feelings and experiences through painting.

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    Jan Jenver A. Ilumin.

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    Sir Rodney Marc Juan.

    Expressive Qualities of Color


    Colors make things exciting. Colors make things
    different. Colors make something bland beautiful.

    Colors also bring something out of us. They draw


    emotion, feelings, and memories containing that
    particular color, or set of colors. At Pamela
    Underwood Studios, no color is ignored or
    forgotten about; each color is important in the
    painting of one’s expressive arts experience. As Expressive Arts is already focused
    on finding and releasing an inner sentiment, colors
    are a vital part in the expressive parts process.

    For centuries, colors have been used to represent


    certain things and associations. Which is why
    each color has been studied by psychologists to
    find out what most people see in the colors they
    use to paint with. According to a color psychology
    website located in the United Kingdom, studies
    show that these basic colors represent the following emotions and characteristics…

    Red: mainly represents strength, power, energy, survival, strain,


    and defiance, as well as aggression or anger. Red is associated
    with blood, and with feelings that are energetic, exciting,
    passionate or erotic. Most colors carry both positive and negative
    implications. The downside of red evokes aggressive feelings,
    suggesting anger or violence.

    Blue: mainly represents intelligence and intellect. It reflects


    logic and coolness, but also represents sadness and coldness.
    Blue suggests coolness, distance, spirituality, or perhaps
    reserved elegance. Some shade of blue is flattering to almost
    anyone. In its negative mode, we can think of the "blues"-the
    implication being one of sadness, passivity, alienation, or
    depression.
    Yellow: mainly represents happier thoughts, including optimism,
    creativity, and extroversion. It can also stand for fragility, anxiety,
    or fear. Yellow is the color of sunshine. This color is optimistic,
    upbeat, modern. The energy of yellow can become
    overwhelming. Therefore yellow is not a color that tends to
    dominate fashion for long periods of time.

    Green: green can stand for balance, environment, peace,


    stagnation, restoration, or harmony. In its positive mode, green
    suggests nature (plant life, forests), life, stability, restfulness,
    naturalness. On the other hand, green in some tones or certain
    contexts (such as green skin) might instead suggest decay
    (fungus, mold), toxicity, artificiality.

    Purple: very spiritual. It means spiritual containment, luxury,


    decadence, introversion, and truth. Violet is the color of fantasy,
    playfulness, impulsiveness, and dream states. In its negative
    mode, it can suggest nightmares, or madness.

    Orange: passion, warmth, fun, security, as well as frustration.


    Orange is the color of flesh, or the friendly warmth of the
    hearth fire. The positive implications of this color suggest
    approachability, informality. The negative side might imply
    accessibility to the point of suggesting that anyone can
    approach-- a lack of discrimination or quality.

    Pink: mainly stands for nurturing, femininity, love, sexuality,


    physical harmony, although it can also mean inhibition, or
    physical weakness.

    Black: Black can stand for a lot. It can mean oppression,


    heaviness, fear, but also mean efficiency, substance,
    sophistication, and emotional safety.

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