Crazy Colours
Yet another evil experiment /mind game from the very cute and quirky book "Wishcraft"
EXERCISE 4: Pick a Color
Choose a color that appeals to you. It doesn’t have to be your all-time favorite, or a color you especially like to wear—though it may be. The best way to pick one is to look at a selection of colors, and I’d also like you to have your color in front of you while you do this exercise. So you might glance through a brightly colored magazine . . . or look around for a color that catches your eye in a painting or print, a chair or a rug, in the room where you’re sitting right now . . . or if you have a child’s box of crayons, or a set of chalks or paints, that will give you an excellent range to choose from. (Remember the delicious feeling of choice you got when you opened a brand-new box of forty-eight sharp-pointed crayons and decided which one to draw with first: silver? flesh? forest green?)
Now I would like you to role-play that color. That means you are going to pretend you are that color and speak for it, since it cannot speak for itself. It can’t tell us what it’s like to be royal purple, or buttercup, or black. You will have to tell what it’s like to be your color.
The Emerald Serpent!
Oh yesss. So true that there's more to this one than meets the eye Even when being totally restrained and staying with one single solitary colour, there's at least 40 shades of green that this serpent could happily snatch
So the reason for green
Red is too hot and yellow too bright. Blue is too cold but green is just right It is a calming, relaxing and comforting colour and not easily slotted into the usual black - white, male - female, left - right pigeon holes
Getting more fussy and finicky
Olive green Warm and friendly Down to earth, quirky and eccentric But bestest of all - a quiet unobtrusive sneaking about on the sidelines colour
Forest (emerald?) green (the green equivalent of burgundy, plum or navy blue) Dark, mysterious, subtle and understated