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I know that I am a colourful character, maybe because I am always surrounded by colour and music. When you paint, your colour choices are important. They help to bring about the mood you are trying to convey. These can completely change your painting, giving the impression of heat or even a cold feel to them.

Colour affects us all, in any number of ways and we probably all favour certain colours, which please our senses. Sometimes too, accordingly, you can create the illusion of a feeling of space.

The colours we choose in our own domains make or break the feel of our living space. Mostly people want a relaxed feel, so are more likely to opt for pastel shades like blues, mauves and pale greens.

If you are an emotional person like myself, you will love using all the brightest mixes of reds, gorgeous oranges and glowing yellows and golds to obtain intense vibrancy. This can evoke the feeling of heat to your art. Making your art interesting to the eye.

Just look at Vlaminck, to clarify this point. If you are feeling blue, it definitely reflects what your mood is at that particular time. These general sayings stick in our minds. As for your work, of course, it helps if you use complementary colours. You can change colours really just by what you put next to one another.

We all like different colours and also like to experiment with new ones. Make sure that you always have a white to mix colours and build up your shades from. Then, of course, some colours are permanent. Black, you will find, can block out colour. If you want to make shadows, shades of brown, whites or greys.

Now if you are doing watercolours, Paynes grey is a very good choice. You could mix it yourself on your palette. The mixture consisting of Ultramarine Blue, Yellow Ochre and Mars Black. However, you can buy this ready mixed and because of its versatility, it is very popular with artists today.

At the end of the day, colour is very important to the artist. Well, after all, this is how we artists choose to express ourselves.

If you know about the Primary Colours and The Colour Wheel you are already half way there with your colour mixing. If you haven’t already got one, there are plenty explained in art shops and art books.

Now we have established our mood swings can be triggered by colours, so if you are feeling sad you would probably choose brown, black, grey, very dark navy or the like. These represent to me miserable colours, depending on your subject of course.

I admit that I prefer brighter shades! Thank goodness that we all have different colour choices and use them to advantage for our type of art! Remember too, using white with just one colour would work very well, it doesn’t have to reflect a miserable feeling.

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