COLOR HEALING
An introduction to the use of color in art,
Spirituality and Color Healing. 
In the physical plane color is the result of light hitting an object. the color we see is the frequency of light that is reflected off an object as light strikes it .
Colors that we are able to see form the visible
spectrum .
The easiest way to become aware of the full
spectrum in pure colored light is to take an old cd (aol cds work
well) and hold
it in light while watching the play of rainbow color across it
rainbows are, of course a full spectrum and have the
range of secondary and tertiary colors as well as the primary colors.
Colors
react with each other
either by
harmonizing or
contrasting with each other.The color wheel is a valuable tool for understanding color.
A color wheel is an image of the spectrum bent into a circle .
The colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel form a related harmonious sequence.
When you are mixing colors of paint or pigments. the Primary colors are Red , Yellow and Blue .
Red and yellow make orange and they are
equidistant
on
the color wheel .
When you are working with light or modern
Printer's
inks the Primary colors are
magenta , cyan and blue. Your computer screen is colored by light rather than with pigment and the green (as a visible primary) may bea much lighter yellow green than the emerald or grass green hue often used as the secondary color in pigment based color charts.
Primary means that in theory you can mix all
other colors
from
them though it is not as simple as it sounds
because pure red ,blue, and yellow do not exist in pigments .
You can not mix the primary colors from any other colors.
yellow and blue make green
blue and red make violet
red and yellow make orange .
The tertiary colors are mixed from equal parts of a primary and the secondary color next to it on the color wheel .
yellow- green, blue- green, blue- violet, red- violet ,red- orange,
yellow -orange, are the tertiary colors
White things reflect all frequencies of light
black things absorb all frequencies of light.
Complimentary colors are those opposite each other on the color wheel and they intensify each other when placed next to each other . they can be mixed together to form a neutral gray and when you view a photographic negative you will see the complimentary color of the positive photo image. The complimentary colors of the pigment primaries are
Red
compliment = Green
Blue
compliment = Orange 
Yellow
compliment = Violet
Hue is another word for color it is used to describe close or similar colors, scarlet and crimson are both hues of red for example.
Intensity ,chroma and saturation all refer to how bright a color is.
vivid bright colors have strong intensity, pale grayed colors are weak in intensity, adding white to strong Red creates weak pink, graying a hue by adding the complimentary color also weakens it. Tone refers to the relative lightness or darkness of a color . when white is added to a color the result is a tint of the color pink is a tint of red. adding black to a color results in a shade of the color.
Colors with a blue tinge are called cool, colors with a red tinge are called warm. Warm colors tend to make things look near and cool colors create distance.
