Colors

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When you look back at your kindergarten drawings, you always think about how much you loved to color. You couldn’t understand then, but now you just realize that coloring is just the act of smearing wax onto a piece of paper. Something enticed you at the time. You just don’t know what. When you were young, neatness didn’t matter. Mixture of colors didn’t matter. You just wanted to add color to the page, whenever you felt like it. If you wanted the house to be purple, you made it purple. If you wanted to make the girl green, you made her green. If you wanted to make the sky red, you made the sky red. But now, color matters to you. Color is so abstract, yet so defined. It could mean a million different things, or it could mean one thing. It all depends on how you use it and see it.

In all its simplicity, colors can even arouse strong emotions. That bold shade of magenta, being so feminine, possesses so much heat. So does red and orange. Now, you would juxtapose these hues to show something serious, extreme, or angry. Yellow is nice and warm. It feels like the Sun shining down on a cool day. It lands on your skin and brings you happiness. A happy painting with a beautiful scene would use yellow. Green and light blue freshens you up. It reminds you of when you take a bath. You put on your aromatic soap, throw on some fragrant lotion, and spray some perfume. You feel rejuvenated. New. Like you had a fresh start. A bucolic, quaint landscape would be infused and blended with shades of green. And then, blue and purple. These two colors are so tranquil. So serene. So dull and bold, while so calm and scintillating. The ocean while buzzing with so much activity, feels so soothing. No worry. No anger. Just water.

Color is a treat for your eyes. Something mainly looks beautiful or ugly, based on its color. The six basic colors are so unique, compelling, and have a thousand words to say on their own. But, what if we took tints and shades of each color. What if you mix the colors. Mixed them with tints and shades. And even more variants. You could create almost any color imaginable. Then, place those colors next to each other. Added shadows. Added perspective. Depth. Abstrusity. Complexity. Style. Mood. Tone. Character. That is what creates art. Only by using color, you can create almost anything! On a typical computer screen, you could create trillions of different images, with different colors placed next to each other.

Color, yet being so simple, humble, and one-sided, can immediately change how we perceive things, and how the perceiver perceives things. Each person can view it differently. A red circle could just be a round line. It could be infinite points set together. It could be an undefined two-dimensional figure. It could define a border. It could be all of things. Or maybe just a few. Who knows? There is never a right answer. Color is just color.

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