Good day all! This blog will be about color theory and color symbolism. While this subject might be thought of as simple and elementary, it is an important part of our everyday life. We corrodinate much of our life and styles through what our color preferences are. I also was recently asked by an educated adult what the primary colors are and when I told her she did not believe me. Many people learned about the color wheel in grade school, but sometimes these things have a way of being forgotten. This made me think about a simple review, just a refresher, on what our primary and secondary colors are and why they are important.

I did discuss the basics of the color wheel in this podcast:
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The artists I gave in the examples are just a few of the artists that have used and are still using color to set the mood or tone of the images they are creating. Artists are not the only ones that rely on color for their work. Just think of all the professions that rely on colors to speak to them. It would be hard for athletes to compete in group sports if we didn't contrast teams with different colors. Different schools have been recognized by their school colors. Professions are identified through colors, such as police are identified with the color blue and doctors with white. People who work in any kind of transportation professional regularly identify with different colored symbols daily to perform their jobs. The color theory may seem like a simple idea, but it plays a big part in everything we do.