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  The illusion of depth is like the magic of warm and cool colors. Place a cool color in the background and warm color in the foreground. A two-dimensional picture turns more meaningful.  This is where experimenting with color theory comes in.  I often make mandalas and it gives me peace. You will find mandalas throughout Indian temples. There is something magical about making a mandala. You start off with a blank canvas and draw a circle. You don't know where your inspiration comes from. But, when you lift your eyes off the canvas, a beautiful picture looks back at you.  I will use this mandala to describe warm and cool colors in color theory. And, I will also explain saturation, tone, and shade of colors in color theory.  The warm color is energetic and draws attention. It seems to come close to the viewer. Examples of warm colors include red, orange, and yellow. Cool colors like blue and green look peaceful. They don't attract much attention. They seem to move away from the

  The outline of a castle I read myriads of color theory blogs and summed them up in a bunch of blogs. Then I decided to experiment with color theory concepts. Thus I used some simple shapes in the Microsft word to draw a castle. Here is the outline.   Then I decided to use blue and purple to paint this castle. I have used different color temperatures, values, saturations, etc of these colors. So, the difference lies in color values. It can convey different meanings about the same castle.  Four different color combinations convey four different messages If you watch animated movies then these four images will look like the same castle. In different scenes, they depict it in different ways.  These four castles depict four different scenarios. The differences are subtle but important. Let us discuss them. An interpretation using color theory Colors create an illusion of depth This picture uses two warm colors and cool colors. Cool colors tend to recede to the background and do not draw a