Interview questions (art and colors)

Interview: Cecilia de Romaa Date: April 26 20014

Question 1
How did you decide on the colors of your artwork?
I choose a color depending on the area the artwork will be and depending on the
feelings I want to express and generate on people.

Question 2
From your perspective what color matches each feeling?
This information is helpful when decorating a house or an office.
1. Black dramatic, confident, sophisticated.
2. White purity, cleansing, sacred, neutral.
3. Gray sophisticated, contemporary, hi-tech.
4. Red energetic, passionate, powerful.
5. Blue calm, melancholy, loving.
6. Yellow cheerful, happy, bright, joy.
7. Green combines blue and yellow. It is stable, calming, expansive.
8. Purple combines blue and red. It is royal, elegant, sophisticated, velvet.
9. Orange combines yellow and red. It is hurried, on-the-move, energetic.
10. Turquoise has more green than blue and is a happy shade.
11. Peach has more yellow than red and is calmer than orange.

Question 3
What is your favorite color? Why? (How does it make you feel?)
My favorite color is white, I like to decorate with white because it is neutral and
match with all the color, it makes me feel relax and calm.

Question 4
From your experience how do you think colors affect feelings?
Colors affect feelings because when we are around them, we can feel and sense
depending on the environment and the colors that are around us.

Question 5
If your design is White how do you expect people to react?
I expect people to react calm and relax, a white space appears bigger than a dark
one. And it also looks cleaner.



Question 6
By doing a design or artwork what feeling are you translating?
Depending on the colors I can translate feelings as:
Confidence, purity, cleansing, energetic, passionate, powerful, calm, melancholy,
loving, cheerful, happy, bright, calming, expansive, elegant, sadness, anger

Question 7
From your experience how do people feel looking at dark blue? Why?
In my opinion Dark blue express sadness.


Question 8
People have different perspectives, so how do you know what color to use to
represent happy or sad?
Happy can be represented with yellow, and orange
Sad can be represented with dark blue and black.

Question 9
From your experience what color represents happy, sad or relaxed?
Sad can be represented with dark blue and black.
White can be represented with white.

Question 10
What color makes you sad? Why?
Dark blue make me feel sad because it look dark and without light.

Question 11
How do you feel looking at white?
Around white I feel relax and calm.

Question 12
Do a light color and a dark color make difference? Why?
Yes, a dark color is more dramatic, a light color is more relax and calm.


Question 13
From your opinion your favorite color represents what? Why?
Around white I feel relax and calm.






Question 14
What do you think your favorite color represent to people? Why?
Around white I think that people feel relax and calm.


Question 15
With what color do you feel relaxed? Why?
White, because it is neutral.

Question 16
With what color do you feel active? Why?
I feel active around orange and yellow, because they are warm colors.

Question 17
If you want people to feel relaxed in your artwork what color would you paint?
White, because it is neutral.

Question 18
From your experience how colors translate feelings?
Colors affect feelings because when we are around them, we can feel and sense
depending on the environment and the colors that are around us.


Question 19 (Architecture)
How can a design relate to colors and feelings?
Colors affect feelings because when we are around them, we can feel and sense
depending on the environment and the colors that are around us.