Color Texture Questions

What Factors influence the psychological impact color has on people?
Some of the different psychological factors that influence the impact of color can be age, gender,culture and life experiences.

Summarize the feeling each of the following colors evoke in people
Red- The color red can evoke power, danger, fire, strength, and passion.
Green- Green gives off the feeling of nature and and is commonly associated with peace, luck ,envy, and hope.
Violet- This color is royal, dignified, and dramatic.

Name the secondary colors. What primary colors, in what proportions, are used to make each?
 The secondary colors are green, orange, and violet. All of these colors are made by mixing an equal amount of two primary color. Green is made with blue and yellow, orange is red and yellow, and finally, violet, is made of blue and red.

Which color name is listed first in the name of a tertiary color?
Tertiary, or intermediate colors, are named first with the primary color and then with the secondary color. For example, a mix of blue and green is called "blue-green."

Contrast value and intensity of color?
Value refers to lightness and darkness of a color while intensity refers to how bright or dull a color is.

What are the differences between a tint, shade, and tone?
Tint is adding white to  a color, shade is adding black, and tone is adding grey to a color.

Summarize how to neutralize a hue.
To neutralize a hue you must mix it with its opposite color. fore example, you can mix blue and orange to neutralize it, or green and red, etc.

Name two warm colors and two cool colors.
Two warm colors are red and orange. Two cool colors are blue and green.

Identify an example of each of the seven color harmonies.
A monochromatic harmony is one basic hue, with its tints, shades and tones. An example would be a light blue, a grey blue and a navy blue.
A Complementary harmony is colors across from each other on the color wheel. Blue and Orange is an example of this.
An example of a Split-Complimentary harmony is blue, red-orange, and yellow-orange.
Double complimentary colors are two pairs of complementary colors. For example, red and green and violet and yellow fit this.
Analogous colors are next to each other on the color wheel. Red, red-orange, and orange is an analogous color harmony.
Triadic color harmonies use colors that are an equal distance apart on the color wheel. An example is yellow, blue, and red.
Neutral color harmonies simply use neutral colors, such as grey, black ,and white.

What factors influence the way color harmonies are used in planning an interior design?
Mood. styles, lifestyle, function of the room, objects in the room, and location of the room influence the way color harmonies are used.

Summarize the guidelines for using color correctly in a room design.
The guidelines for using color correctly are: color gains intensity over large areas, contrasting colors draw attention, color harmonies are easier on the eye when the base color dominates, select low intensity colors for large spaces, heavily textured colors make surfaces appear darker, if a space is large choose a color to make it appear smaller, if a room is small, and choose colors to make it appear larger.

Question #13 (I'm not typing that one all the way out)
Instead of just warm, or just cool colors, the couple should choose a mix of both. This can be done using harmonies. The best choice would be to choose a complimentary harmony that would use one warm, and one cool color. They do not have natural lighting, though, so they will have to be careful how the type of light they use will change or distort the color.