COLORS- The most important thing I learned in STAC all quarter.

I am absolutely in love with and in awe of all the newly learned facts you've taught me about color theory and colors in nature. I used to be a victim of "symbolic painting". The grass is green, so I made the grass really green. The sky is blue so I made the sky really blue, etc. I always knew these things didn't look right, but I never really knew why. And the answer was so simple and it's just so amazing how much of a difference it can make. Colors are way more important than outlines and shapes. Both do make a realistic looking picture, but a correctly colored picture with misshaped figures will look much more realistic than a discolored picture with correct shapes. I'm just in awe of how powerful color and the use of color knowledge is in creating art.
My STAC Art project is proof of how much I've learned (and have yet to learn). Ha! My tree isn't brown! It looks like a real tree. My grass isn't green. It is a lot of brown actually.
One of the most fascinating things to me is that mixing the color brown into a color will create a totally different effect than mixing it's opposite color to make a brownish color. Using the opposite color makes a truer, realer, more naturalistic looking color. For example, when making the grass, instead of just mixing brown into the green, I mixed some red as well as brown. The resulting color looks more like grass and less like...mud. Which is odd, because opposite colors make muddy colors, I think. But just adding a tiny bit makes such a lovely difference while still keeping that green strong and potent.
My knowledge of color theory will greatly influence my art, whether it's painting, photography, or even film. I'm kind of excited to experiment with it in disciplines outside of painting. And I can't wait to learn more about it in STAC. I'm not sucking up either. I'm totally interested in this. Thanks :)