Fani Kiran Vulapalli

Colors are important to making things look good, whether it's the clothes you wear or the presentation you give at work. But not everyone instinctively knows that orange and blue is a perfect combination. If you can't trust your own judgement, understand and rely on the basics of color theory to always pick the right colors. Learn the Color Wheel This is the basic color wheel and it will guide you in making color choices. You've probably seen it in school, but here's a quick refresher just in case you've forgotten. Red, blue and yellow are primary colors. When you mix red and yellow, you get orange; mix blue and yellow, you get green; mix red and blue, you get violet. Orange, green and violet are hence called secondary colors. Tertiary colors like red-violet and blue-violet are derived by mixing a primary color with a secondary color. All colors have tints and shades. A tint is the variation of that color when mixed with white; a shade is the...

Have you ever sat looking at a blank text document, page, or canvas and wondered how you ever managed to start new projects in the past? Assuming creative block exists (some say it doesn't), it can hit anyone involved in creative work—from writers to performers to composers to scientists. How you work through creative blocks will be different to what works for me, but understanding what they are and why they happen is a good starting point. What are creative blocks? Creative blocks are such abstract notions that it's hard to pin down a specific definition of what they are and why they occur. The general consensus seems to be that a period of time when an artist can't access their inspiration or can't bring themselves to create new work--is a creative block. It's that blank page syndrome by another name. Creative blocks can happen for various reasons. It might come as the result of criticism, as it was for Rachmaninoff, physical or emotional drain, or simpl...