Color in Fiction

Margaret Avison uses a lot of color is her poems. Pauline Johnson also introduces color to describe the landscape of Vancouver. Color evokes emotions, feelings and imagery. Color has a subjective perspective. There are different shades of each color and each person sees color in a different light. The popular colors people can easily identity like red, blue, yellow, green, but when the colors start to blend together, more complex colors are formed and people have different opinions on what they are called. To one person it could be turquoise but to another it could be aqua-marine. But is it the name of the color or the color itself that provokes an image. If so how do you show a color is writing? What about a person who is color blind. How does color look to them? Some colors will look right but other colors will all blend together. Color is a great way to describe something and connect the reader to imagery, but I think all the senses should be used to truly convey the full image.