Module 3    

 Color is a function of light. The less light that is available, the darker the color gets, to the point of it being black in the absence of light. light is refracted into different colors in different ways. Colors can bring out emotions in humans. Cooler colors tend to be more dark and bring about more negative emotions, while warmer colors bring positive ones.

     The aspect of color that I find most intriguing are harmonies. While I have never been an "art guy", one of my hobbies is painting miniatures. I often spend a lot of time researching what colors go with each other before I decide to paint a batch of them, mostly due to my ignorance on art as a whole. My mother always taught me that my clothes had to match colors, but that isn't really the case. Colors that contrast each other can go together just as pleasantly as complimentary colors can. This chapter has helped me understand more about this topic and thus I will put it to use.

      I found it surprising that artists would plan their paintings in advance. choosing the colors they were to use carefully and working from sketches. I've always thought of art as a creation that was made "in the moment" and not planned. The Scottish woman's story about visiting Italy to inspect the views she was going to paint was something I have never considered before.

      

     That places like restaurants seek out specifics colors in paintings to make their customers more hungry and that colors choices can have such a basic emotional response to begin with. It isn't surprising that a warm painting makes someone happier than are darker one, but I found it very surprising that a painting could control hunger.