Color magic is the thoughtful, intentional use of color to help communicate ideas, empower or change an outcome.
Examples:
- Wearing a color for luck.
- Changing decor with seasons.
- Coordinating candle color for a spell’s theme.
- Devotional art color choices. (Here’s a post 🔗about the symbolism in one of my icons of Frigg, Baldr and Höðr.)
- Making paints with dirt from your travels.
Some things that have helped me with working with color:
Color theory
- how colors mix
- how color can evoke emotion
- how pigments are made and reproduced
- how color associations change throughout history
- how color is used in special effects
Look how the color filters affect the makeup in 🔗these stills from Ben-Hur (1959):
Something on an altar or sigil that’s only visible at a certain wavelength? That’s spycraft, witchcraft and a lot of other-crafts all in one!
📖 .pdfs of Color by Paul Zelanski and Mary Pat Fisher:
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27789736M/Color
https://archive.org/details/color0006zela
Accessible design
Working with Höðr has helped expand my thinking about how people interact with my work other than with sight.
🔗Bloody Mistletoe Dart patch designed for sight vs. touch:
This Yule season I’ve been working more on updating the accessibility of my sites and shops. Writing alt text:
🔗Introduction to Web Accessibility, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
🔗Creating an Accessible Color Palette, Harvard University
New perspectives are one of the most valuable materials for a craft~
Ideas to try:
- Make a palette for spell with colors from a picture that’s meaningful to you.
- Make a list of colors, what you associate with them and why.
- Design a spell as though you had different eyes. Don’t have to be human ones~😉
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