The meaning of colors: How to use colors in your art! Everywhere you go, you see colors: white clouds in the sky, green vegetation inching up gray stone structures and red brick buildings, grounding brown soil beneath your feet. You don’t just see these colors…you feel them. Each color has a different meaning and can evoke different emotions in people. Color psychology is a branch of color theory that studies how you can use each color to create emotion, mood, and feeling in art. Where do color meanings come from? Color meanings come from a variety of places. Some are primal, like the color green’s association with growth and fresh vegetation. Others developed later from modern environments people found themselves contending with, like the color green’s association with poison and death for 18th-century Europeans (due to the era’s green dye containing arsenic). And sometimes color meanings can change over time, like how green’s association changed from the color of poison to the c...
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