We are surrounded by color—in the beauty of nature, in the ugliness of war, in the clothes we wear, in the décor of our homes, in photograph albums, and just about everywhere.   We do not live our lives in black and white but in varied colours that life unfolds in.  Science and psychology both hold the view that colours are an integral part of our lives and influence everything we do or feel. Colour psychology is the study of how colours affect human behaviour. It’s that burst of orange, splash of blue, stroke of red, and the other colours in the rainbow that add that zest to our lives. A depressing day may be associated with grey or black; red symbolises your passion and energy, while blue creates an aura of calm and tranquillity, not forgetting that blue is also associated with sadness and a style of music called “the blues.”   Can you communicate with colors? Colours silently communicate moods and emotions and are a reflection of your tempe...

  Blue is a pretty colour. The light and dark of blue is very appealing. It just feels so good gazing up at the daytime blue sky. Travelling down memory lane, my school uniform was a white blouse and a blue pleated skirt. The ocean is a tantalizing deep blue and my ma's favourite colour was blue.There is a genre of music and a mood named after the colour.   Some Interesting facts about Blue. Blue is a relatively new colour and the last colour to be named in the English language.  The Chinese associate colours with the 5 primary elements, the four seasons and directions. Hence they associate blue with wood, east and spring. Blue is a sign of Hope in countries with a high Catholic population. Blue is the fifth colour of the rainbow. According to L. Elizabeth Crawford, a psychology professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, the association of blue with sadness arose from the look of the bo...