The way each of us perceives color is through visual sensation. Your individual sense of color and how it feels to you is directly reflected in the way you view the external world. Look at light for example: It reflects all color. In bright sun, colors are more strong, when the light softens in the afternoon and evening, colors in the same room become more grayer in hues. Your sense of color is, of course , influenced by light energy but also by interior sense conductors that are in your brain. Therefore color is not only seen by ones eyes, but also felt as an emotion which inwardly communicates a “feeling “sensor to your brain. So every color strikes a different sentiment in your brain.
Take the three primary colors for example: Red incites danger and excitement, Yellow initiates bright sun and vivid daylight and “Be Careful” on the highway. Blue is a very calm and restful color to sleep with—the sea rocking one back and forth. Secondary colors: Green represents the wonder of nature around us, Purple represents Easter (Christ Has Risen), royalty and masterful, Orange represents highway hazards. A good exercise is to look around you in your home, in your friends homes, at work ,and play a game and try to feel what each setting feels like to you. Do you feel cozy with a certain color, do you feel sleepy with another, do you get energized to tackle the world with another color. Then reflect on these feelings. They will help you start to “paint” the different components of your home and what you want from each room.
