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Using color to express emotion
From the course: Learning Digital Painting
Using color to express emotion
Color speaks to our emotions. We can use this power of color to imbue our paintings with specific expressive connotations. When painting abstractly, the combination of gestural brush strokes and color language imparts a strong emotional impact to the viewer. Let's let the color. So, we're going to go through here, and I'm just going to do a few strokes as I go to talk about this. And let's begin with red. So, I'll just grab some red here, and I'm just going to just do a couple strokes. And red. What is it that red connotates? Red is the color of blood and fire. And as such, it's associated with things like danger, war, energy, power, determination, as well as passion and desire and love. So, that's a color that has a very strong emotional weight that you can use to connote those kinds of emotions in your abstract imagery. Now, let's grab some orange here. And I'll just do a stroke for each one of these that sorts of feels like the color to me. So, orange would be kind of round like…
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