Perception: Color and Luminosity
There is tree primary color: Blue – Red – Yellow – Blue and Red Brings Violet, Blue and Yellow Brings Green, Red and Yellow Brings Orange – which make up 6 in total - now put all of this colors together you will have Black.
Color is hard wired into our perceptual system as well as our emotional body. Cool colors have a calming effect (as deep ocean) while warm colors have a stimulating effect – (emergency flashing red light). Colors improve your mood, concentration and also memory. One of my favorite abstract painters Wassily Kandinsky said: "In the first instance, color influences our souls".
This is just simple examples of color effect: turquoise – brings sense of happiness and calmness; Green brings emotional balance, also helps to relax your eyes and increases the concentration; blue brings a heart to natural rhythm and make you feel as if time has suddenly slowed down.
This technique is fairly simple and ‘artistic’. The purpose of this technique is to work with colors as a meditation, to see the complimentary colors, as it stimulates not only you mind but it also involves your perception. If you would choose to gaze on red – you would see as aftermath imprinting the color green (as a complimentary or luminosity to the color red) and so on …
Below are 6 colors to work with (the shade of the colors could be optional) you can buy already pr-made sheets of color paper at any craft or art stores. Add any symbol to it. And use gazing technique to see complimentary color to the color that you gazing at.
~ from my heart to your~
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Hey Miriam ... i did made a color wheel ... and i am an amateur self taught artist as well based ... lol ...
using colors as a meditation technique it's very beneficial ... ;) you can practice all of them at different sequence or combination ... what is important is aftermath - what color do you see when you redirect your eyes (white wall would be preferable ) ... but then you can use all the colors like this, so effect is more interesting ... ;) or use any color that you like
hugs and kisses to you Sister!!!
Hi sister, have you ever made a color wheel? I made it in class art, you divide the circumference in 6 segments and each one of them in several areas, I think it was 7. After that you paint each color fading to the center. When you spin it you have White, not black. I've always understood is White, not Black what you get when you put all the colors together. Someone good in Art could tell us, tomorrow I'll ask my niece who is in Art college and I'll write her answer to you. Black is the absence of color, I think. I love Black, but I love more pure colors, they've always given me a great satisfaction, as good music or a nice parfum. Which is your favourite? I can't really choose, but the Blue-Green strong tones really inspire me, also Violet and Purple, and Golden-Orange...You see, I can't really choose one, I choose them all!!!
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