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Reflective Essay: What Is Your Favorite Color

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“What is your favorite color?” It’s a simple question that people have asked me countless times-the one that I could never give a definite answer. I used to have a favorite color, but when I started painting, I have ceased to remember what it was. I realized that using the same old tone, the same own favorite palette had limited my own creativity: I was no longer satisfied with my artworks’ expression. Gradually, I learned to pick up different pigments, their combination proved unpredictable, uncontrollable. Juxtaposition of colors has added the kind of emotions never exhibited in my paintings before. It was amazing to feel a summer day through the mix of blues, beige and brown tone, the energy and vitality of blue sunset from the combination of cobalt blue and strong oranges, or the sense of magical and mysterious evoking from grayish blue, deep violet and a range of browns. All colors are beautiful it they find their proper palette. I love all colors that comes to my life. In the canvas of my life, I have tried to understand and appreciate every color. People have different stories that …show more content…

I explore and love my city from various corners, try on others’ shoes to see life through different lens, fulfill my curiosity by adding to my canvas varied shades of interests and knowledge. Some ultramarine blue of science, the blue of joyfulness and incredibly childish pride when I found out the reason why the sky is blue, why popping bubbles sparkled various colors or when the answer opens to more and more “why”. Some sepia brown of hours looking through the annals of history, searching for various pieces of story that contribute to make big historical puzzle. Some emerald green of books and fictions. Some viridian of art’s endless passion. And deep red of enthusiasm glinting through the entire

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