Colour Studies: Theory and Practice

Abstract

The study of colour is interesting. The value of human life would be meaningless without colour. This is because colour helps to enhance the beauty of both man-made and natural phenomena. Colour is not easy to define, it simply explains what the eyes see or interpret in the presence of light. According to Ngumah, Ayoola, Dalhatu, and Samkay (2013), colour is the interplay of the eyes with the light. In other words the word colour cannot exist without the presence of light, it depends on light. Ogumor (2007) sees colour as the waves of light separated by different things before reaching our eyes. Colour is perception. The eyes see something (the sky, for example), and data sent from the eyes to the brains tells one it is a certain colour (blue). Objects reflect light in different combinations of wavelengths. The brains pick up on those wavelength combinations and translate them into the phenomenon called colour (Decker, 2017).