Colour visualisations of well known books

[Hysteria]

Well, apart from a crash course in the title of this thread on the difference between UK and American spelling, I stumbled across this (http://www.wired.com/2013/09/data-visualization-the-color-signatures-of-famous-books/) and thought it was pretty cool.

What colours do you describe in your writing?

For me it'd be blue and black, followed by red. Talen's eyes are generally the only colour on him, so I often try and draw attention to them while mentioning the sky or water. Red; blood and a fire normally. I try and stick with these three, but setting will also often be green.

[hoytti]

Mine is mainly blue's and greens with a yellow, white, and pink thrown in there once in a while and rarely is red ever mentioned.

Blue comes from the skin color of three of my main characters as does green. Blue is also the color of water so it is used a lot as well.

White is a common color when it comes to clothing. Also, one of my main character's eyes are silver, which is a form of white.

Hair & robotic equipment usually have a yellow color to them. though I do have other colored hairs as well.

Pink is the main eye color of the coralian race.

[Lightfoot]

Colors are one of my favorite things to use. Finding new ways to describe red is always fun. Especially with blood, which comes up often on this site. I love blue, green, brown, purple, orange. Interesting colors for environments, clothes, etc. is a great way to keep everything fresh.

I also love using colors in an interesting way to interact with what I'm describing. If it's a sunset I might say, "hues of red, purple, and orange began to paint themselves across the evening sky." Or, perhaps, someone dying, "The blade slipped through his defenses, and was met with a sickening crunch as it tore through armor and flesh alike. Blood spilled out onto the snow, staining the ground a deep crimson."

There's just so much you can do with colors.

[Philomel]

I describe grey a lot, for Philomel's eyes (not fifty shades of it though). Fire also seems to feature a lot so I use the colours of it fairly often - a sunset, a hearth, Viridian on firefox mode.

I love describing things, technique is something I really want to excel in.

Gordon says "Grumble's colour is silence."

[Otto]

I probably over-use amber. It's in Otto's eyes, but more than that, it's the usual hue of everything in my night-time threads; I mostly write in the city of Radasanth, where street lamps, candles, lanterns and torches usually cast their pall. When I was growing up, the only street lights we had in the 'burbs were old sodium vapour ones, so nothing says 'night time' to me more than a monochrome, shadow-filled, golden landscape:

http://megaanswers.com/images_uploaded/Why%20does%20the%20sodium%20vapour%20lamp%20take%2 0some%20time%20to%20glow.jpg

[Philomel]

Here (http://www.bartleby.com/85/6.html) is an interesting piece of fiction by Virginia Woolf. It is called "Blue & Green" and is often called avante-garde short fiction. Its a type of fiction without really any action, but rather description at its core - a theme on the particular. We also have some workshops in my Creative Writing society on colour writing itself, i.e. using colour as inspiriation.