The Power of Color

Do different colors affect your mood?  Absolutely!
We associate different colors with feelings.

Red - An intense color that stimulates a faster heartbeat and breathing as well as appetite.  (You didn't think McDonalds picked the color scheme of red and yellow by chance did you?)  Red is considered an excellent accent color since your eye is drawn there.

Pink  - Considered a very relaxing color, the color of love.

Yellow - Cheerful, an attention getter yet is the most difficult color to take in so should be used sparingly.

Blue - One of the most popular colors, the color of the sky and the ocean.  It has the opposite reaction as red, peaceful and tranquil.


Green - The easiest color on the eye, the color of nature.  It is calming and refreshing.

White - Reflects light and symbolizes innocence and purity.

And that leads us to one of my favorite colors Black.

Black - The color of authority and power.  The color people wear to appear slimmer.  The color of evil.  It's also timeless and stylish and that is the main reason it is used so often in jewelry designs.

Stylish:

Abstract Art Pendant by Jans Art 

 Evil:

Mini Book Earrings by Illusion Everything

 

Timeless:

Black Heart by Strange Whimsy

Powerful: 

 Black Raven by Desert Rubble

 The above jewelry is an example of the talented people of the Polymer Clay Smoosher guild on Artfire.com.  These items were all made using polymer clay.  These were the emotions I felt when seeing these items in black.

How do they make you feel?

Inspiration

The stimulation of the mind and feelings to special

             or unusual activity or creativity.

Inspiration comes in many forms and means many things.  A simple word can invoke intense feelings good or bad.  A beautiful item found in nature can unleash a wave of creativity.  A heartwarming story may find you reaching out to help others.  What inspires you?  

Below are some inspirational words and what they mean to me.

Hope 

  The emotional state which promotes the belief in a positive outcome

 related to events and circumstances in one's life.

When I see the word Hope I always think of my high school friend Tracy.  She is a breast cancer survivor and hope, to me, means one day we will find a cure.

This word also inspired me to create the above necklace which I sold for Tracy's

 Team Boobilicious fundraiser for breast cancer research.  All monies received for 

these necklaces were donated to her team. 

Believe

To have confidence in the truth, the existance or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.

I believe.....hmmm, this is a tough one to put into words.  It's more a state of mind for me. 

For some reason, today while walking Rosa (the black dog of Black Dog Jewelry), I was thinking of how a blind man must put all his belief in his seeing eye dog to help him cross the street!

Love

 An intense emotion of affection, warmth, fondness, and regard 

towards a person or thing.


Love is a warm puppy (or is that happiness).
  Love is my husband, my son, my dog, my family, my friends, my health, my sense of well being...you get the picture.




Happy Holidays from Black Dog Jewelry!