3 COLOUR, DO WE REALLY KNOW WHAT IT IS?


 

 

In our everyday lives, an infinite number of colours surround us, which we take pretty much for granted, although it has a wide range of roles in our daily lives; it influences our tastes in food and numerous other purchases, even the colour of a person’s face can also tell us about that person’s health.
Colour is one of the luxuries of the modern world, never before in history has so many colour choices been available, and never so easily or inexpensively. Colour surely plays the most important role in our lives, and yet we take it for granted, not realizing the ininfluence colour has on our daily lives.
Although colour plays such a big role in our lives, our knowledge of colour and its control is mostly insufficient, resulting in numerous problems in deciding on a colour or colour scheme. 
Since judgement is mostly performed accordingly to a person’s impressions or experience, it is impossible for everyone to control colour, using common, uniform standards. Unlike length or weight, there is no physical scale for measuring colour, making it impossible that everyone will describe a colour the same.
For the innocent, colour is a quality fixed to the surface of physical objects. In reality, colours don’t exist, or rather they do exist, but only because our minds create them as an interpretation of vibrations that are happening around us. We see our surroundings, and we see them in colour. Why?                                                                                                                                                                                          To To understand this, we have to understand what is colour, how we see it and how it can affect us.
Without this understanding of colour, it is no wonder we like to believe that the information on colour palettes and from interior decorators, is the best guide to colour decisions.

Ever thought why you are fairly confident and assured about your colour taste, but lose all that confidence when trying to “mix and match” colours. Instead of following your instincts, and deciding what appeals to you, what you enjoy looking at, you become indecisive and ill-at ease.
Colour palettes, trends and colour forecast is for many people an answer to their colour indecisiveness. They like to believe what they read and are mesmerized by the alluring descriptions of the effect which colour can have on them as marketed by paint companies.

Every colour in excistence have a positive and negative characteristic, but you will seldom find that the negative side of a colour is mentioned.
Other influences, like shape, texture, combinations of colours, furniture, carpets, curtains, the paint used, paint application are all influences which have an uncontrolled effect on the viewer’s perceiveness.  But the most important roll player on colour is the quality of light.

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