Here’s a little exercise I completed recently, from the excellent book Color by Betty Edwards. Try it yourself, if you like: on 6 equal blank surfaces, using color only, illustrate joy, sadness, love, anger, jealousy, and tranquility. Multiple colors & white space are fine; just don’t use any representation or symbols.

1: Joy	2: Sadness	3: Love	4: Anger	5: Jealousy	6: Tranquility

Naturally, I went with my digital palette of textures, and combined different layers to suit my take on these concepts. Here’s the question to you: can you match each of my color combinations with their matching emotion? Is color choice individual, or universal? Play along and leave me a comment with your matches!