Week 1 - Day Of The Dead

Since our first lesson was on hue, It made me think of colourful things I've seen or heard. One of the most colourful things I heard of which has always interested me is the Mexicans' "Day Of The Dead". This festival, occurring in November, celebrates the lives of all the people that have passed on. I would have always thought a festival like this would be overwhelmed with dark or desaturated colours, since death is a sad experience.
Strangely though this festival is full of bright colours to lift peoples moods, Asking people the celebrate someone's life instead of morn.
In this season every colour has a different meaning;

-Red is the blood that represents life

-Orange Is known as the sun of the festival

-Yellow, the colour of the Mexican Marigold (a bright flower), represents death 

-Purple stands for the grief and pain of the Day Of The Dead
-Pink is the colour of hope and celebration

-Lastly white stands for purity and hope

All of these colours flood mexico on this day. The colours used are very contrasting, high in saturation, but are the perfect value between light and dark, making them brilliant and bright.
I love the use of all the brightest of colours since it gives such a vibrate feeling that is not felt very often.