Question:
Colour? what do you think?
Jessica G
2009-05-11 04:36:54 UTC
when someone says "Colour" what do you think? apart from just blue, yellow, red. where do you see colour mostly.... colours you link with things, colours you are fond of... e.g. colour could be linked with the natural world, red could link with anger...... any other COLOUR ideas???
Ten answers:
Naomi
2009-05-11 06:00:26 UTC
I remember the colored glass pane in St. Paul's church in my town (not the one in London!).



I also remembered an Agatha Christie short story called the 'Harlequin Tea set'. It's about a woman trying to poison a boy with color blindness by switching a red cup with a blue.



I use the word 'color' in my stories to describe a perfect harmony in voices or a rich, vibrant melody. It sounds insane, I know, but it really portrays the idea well.
?
2009-05-11 11:49:40 UTC
I usually take when someone says 'colour' to being well (healthy), positive, up-beat, bright, cheery and similar.

Depending on how you say the word, but that is the first thing I think of when I hear the word.

My favourite colour is purple: Apparently the meaning of purple is sexually frustrated, but it is also the royal colour! That is the one I prefer - lol.

Yellow - I automatically think of crazy, insane and the like.

Red - Traffic Lights (I hate stopping at them)

Green - a nice pasture

Blue - the ocean/the sky/feeling blue

Beige/Brown - Natural wood

Orange - m&ms (no idea why)

Gold - see yellow, although, more royally crazy - lol

Silver - calm feeling.



Like red up there - you associated with a feeling, that is what I do (most times), instead of things.
2009-05-11 12:01:35 UTC
In a writing sense, I'd consider "colour" to be the presence of things other than the absolute minimum required for the plot. So a story with a scene set in an airport terminal would have "colour" if there were announcements being made over the tannoy, crowds bustling everywhere, people asleep in the corner, empty disposable cups on every surface and so on. A story without colour would have the protagonist meet the person he'd come to collect, hold a conversation with him, and they'd leave together.



In other words, nothing to do with descriptions of actual colours at all.
?
2009-05-11 11:42:55 UTC
When someone says "Colour" i think about illusions and mysticism. Not a typical thing but i find it more appealing than most people. That is how some of us see things more advanced and not so bland.
HP Wombat
2009-05-11 11:46:14 UTC
If someone says that a person is "colorful" I imagine that person to be a little eccentric. They use bad language and generally don't care what someone things.



darker green = nature

electric greens = nightclubs

red = blood, sex, passion

white = purity

black = emptiness, loneliness

yellow = happy, sunny

purple = royalty

blue = water, sky
Tashi Delek
2009-05-11 13:11:33 UTC
...Every cloud has a silver lining, Silver Fox, Sterling Silver, Silver Anniversary, Silver Cloud,

...Purple prose, Purple Heart, Purple People Eater

...Red Ryder, Red Hot, Red Dwarf, Red Rose, In the Red, Red-faced.

Red as a beet, Red-handed, Red Ink, Red Delicious, Red Queen, Red Beans, Red Ant, Red Army, Red Alert, Red Door,

...Pink Panther, Pinking Shears, In the Pink

...Green Hornet, Mr. Green Jeans, Green with envy, Green Beret, Greenhorn, Green Party, Green beans, Green Card

...Yellowjacket, Yellow Delicious

...Blue jeans, Bluebonnet, Blueblood, True Blue, Bluebeard, Blueberry, Blue Willow

...Black-eyed Susan, Blackjack, Blackberry, Black Flag, Blackout, Blacklisted, Blackbird, Blackballed, Black Widow, Black Powder, Black Power, Black Panther, Black Belt, Black Beans, Black-hearted, in the Black, Back in Black, Black Sabbath

...White Flag, White Gold, White Hot, White Pine, White Rice, White Rabbit, Lily White, Snow White, White Sauce, White Sale, White Wedding, White Meat

...Gold Standard, Goldilocks, Goldie Hawn, Golden Child, Golden Gate, Golden Girls, Golden Hind, Golden Retriever, Gold Rush, Golden State, Golden Touch, Gold digger, Goldmine, Goldfinch, Goldeneye

...Brown Derby, Brownout, Brown Gravy, Brown Rice

...Grey Wolf, Grey Panther

...
Jo
2009-05-11 11:52:51 UTC
the colour spectrum
Charlotte
2009-05-11 11:41:33 UTC
painting. Like an artist's palette.
~ ApurvA ~
2009-05-11 11:41:51 UTC
red relates with love

and black relates to anger



at least for me!
jamezray
2009-05-11 11:39:07 UTC
rainbow?


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