Imagine yourself walking through the park on a sunny spring day as you see the colorful flowers and the blossoming trees. There are also lots of people wearing their new spring clothes, and enjoying a bike ride or a jog. What do you see all around you? You are surrounded by color. Color is all around us, everywhere we go and at anytime of the day. Of course, color has been around since the beginning of time; however, "in 1666, English scientist Sir Isaac Newton discovered that when pure light passes through a prism, it separates into all visible colors" (Cherry 1).
Color has been described as wavelengths that bounce back from objects which our eyes perceive as colors. Colors are organized in a color wheel. All the colors on the color wheel are made up of the three primary colors which are red, blue, and yellow. Red and blue make violet, blue and yellow make green, and red and yellow make orange. These new colors that are created are known as the secondary colors. The secondary colors then mix to make tertiary colors such as red orange, yellow orange, yellow green, blue green, and blue violet. Then those colors come together to form new colors, and so on. Colors were organized this way so that they would be easier to understand and figure out (Cherry 1). When one thinks of colors, they think of the common uses for it such as decorating a room or coloring a drawing; however, throughout the years, society has found many different uses for color.
One of the interesting features of color is the ability to change a person's mood. Although the change is not dramatically noticed, the colors that are painted in the rooms of a house have effect on the people in it. Researchers have found that every color has its own mood change. Kendra Cherry, a writer and educator on psychology, reports that "while perceptions of color are somewhat subjective, there are some color effects that have universal meaning" (Cherry 1).
