Cool colours tend to have a calming effect. At one end of the spectrum they are cold, impersonal, antispectic colours. At the other end the cool colours are comforting and nurturing. Blue, green, and the neutrals white, gray, and silver are examples of cool colours. In nature blue is water and green is plant life - a natural, life-sustaining duo. Combine blues and greens for natural, water colour palettes. Heat up a too cool colour palette with a dash of warm colours such as red or orange. If you want warmth with just a blue palette, choose deeper blues with a touch of red but not quite almost black deep navy blues.
Cool colours appear smaller than warm colours and they visually recede on the page so red can visually overpower and stand out over blue even if used in equal amounts.
The profiles for each of these cool colours include descriptions of their nature, cultural colour meanings, how to use each colour in design work, and which colours work best together.
Warm colours are vivid and energetic, and tend to advance in space. Warm colours convey emotions from simple optimism to strong violence. The warmth of red, yellow, pink, or orange can create excitement or even anger. The neutrals of black and brown also carry attributes of warm colours. Red, Orange and some Yellows and Purples are considered to be warm colours. People who are extroverts tend to prefer warm hues.Warm colours advance in a painting.
Africa Inspirited Foyer
Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. African art and architecture reflect the diversity of African cultures.
African symbols are “sources of insights into African orientations to life" These are six groups are adinkra symbols, stool symbols, linguistic staff symbols, religious symbols and oral literary symbols. Each of the symbolic group has information to convey concerning the way of life of the people at every situation they are presented or the history of the society it represents;
Colour has symbolic meaning in African culture and each colour conveys peculiar information when won or displaced at significant places or situations. The black colour is a symbolic colour for funerals in almost all parts of Africa. It is the official mourning cloth at funerals especially the one that involves a person who died at unripe age-not the death of an old member.
The white colour is a symbol of purity and joy, which usually won at funerals especially the type that involves a dead old member. The differences in colours of cloth at funeral services convey different messages albeit they are similar situation, but not taken as the same culturally.
The red colour is a spiritual colour and has a very powerful religious significance. It is the colour of the cloth used to adorn the table in the shrine. The red colour is worn by chief priest of the local shrine.
Beads are an integral part of African history from time immemorial. Beaded amulets and talismans warded off evil spirits and had the power to cure illness. And jewellery played an important role in funerary equipment assigned to the departed. They function as money, they possess power, they indicate wealth, they are spiritual talismans, and they form coded messages. Such is the language of beads-a language rich in beauty and tradition, a language that tells the story of trade with foreigners, vast migrations, and vanished empires. Behold the humble bead! If it could talk, what stories it would tell! They made of stone, glass, wood, seeds, metal, shell, teeth, clay, plastic and bone.
In the pre-Christian era beads were prevalent in Egypt, the most common being faience, a quartz precursor of glass that was coated with a copper glaze of blue or green.
A Language all their Own
Beads worn by females immediately convey status: married, unmarried, engaged, uncommitted, has children, has unmarried sisters, etc. Additional colours and patterns even pinpoint the region she comes from. With these signals a man in a crowd can easily pick out females that he may approach without fear of being rejected or embarrassed.
