The Psychology of Colour

I finally finished the latest two week exercise.  Next week we begin exercises that are more about composition than mixing colours.

We started with a prismatic colour grid of light and dark, warm and cold colours.  Then we were to add white, then a lot of white, then black, a warm chromatic dark, a cold chromatic dark and lastly complements.  This is what I came up with.  Not perfect but okay.

Then we were to use some of these colours to paint the same composition twice with different or opposite pallets.  Remember that the title of this entire exercise was "The psychology of colour."  So we were to try for happy/sad or whatever.  I did two pairs because the teacher found my first one too simple and with not enough contrast.  She's right.  My second is more of a mess.  Sorry but these pictures are a bit blurry.  I should have taken them out of their plastic covers for the photographs.