[Jewelry making - Article 01408] - Re: [Orchid] What color is creativity?

[K. David Woolley]

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    There's colour and intensity (solid colour versus a tone (add grey)
    and tint (add white)). It has been said that lower-middle class can
    feel overwhelmed and uncomfortable in a solid colour painting
    scheme. Conversely those who are trying to attain highest social
    status tend to start here. 

    A tint with maybe a solid colour might be a nice compromise, so as
    to not overwhelm your senses and feel claustrophobic. 

    Red, blue, and yellow is one example of a primary colour wheel
    (red+yellow==orange, red+blue==violet, blue+yellow==green for your
    secondary colours), basically in the shape of a triangle. Opposites
    on the colour wheel produce the greatest contrast, orange shirt and
    green shorts for aquaman comes to mind, at the same time going tint,
    tone and shade (making a colour sphere with adding white, grey or
    black) also asks for balance. 

    Visual balance leads to complimentary colour scheme, high contrast
    is another option you could opt for. 

    Red tends to make us hungry/agitated in Western Society, blue tend
    to make us a little down/calm. A search of "red hunger blue sad green
    feel color" or something similar will bring up a number of sites
    covering this kind of topic. 

    Based solely on your query, and not going into a colour theory class
    I would most likely recommend orange as primary with violet accents
    (some say of orange can give feelings of joy and enabling creative
    expression, and also helps one to become more extrovert and outward
    in approach; whereas violet is said to be the most strongly artistic,
    creative and spiritual of the colours, giving inspiration). I would
    also recommend playing with tint/tone/shades of each to get the feel
    you want. Mixing cheap gouache and putting them side by side (paint
    splotch style) should help here and cost little by way of
    investment. 

    I could see someone painting up to the hip in violet and then the
    rest in orange, using green to balance and harmonize them in some
    way. Or course these are three colours at opposite ends of the colour
    wheel and hence have the highest contrast to one another, mixing
    between tints/tones/shades in a pleasing combination will offer a way
    to lessen to jarring nature this can cause. 

    Best of luck and hopefully this helps somewhat. 

K. David Woolley
Fredericton, NB
Diversiform Metal Art & Jewellery
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