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Divergent thought is powered by your imagination, driven by your passionate curiosity, executed by your talent and implemented by your convergent thought (rational & analytical brain). This section contains terms related to creativity (creation of something new and unique) & innovation (designs that are implemented in artwork, product manufacture or other actionable delivery).
THE COLORS OF OUR CREATIVITY
​Defining & Finding Creative Flow (Article)
​Riding the Brain Waves of Flow
Study of the Art and Science of Creativity
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​Communicating Your Creative Arts
Cup of Colorful Creativity
Embers of Thought in the Fire of Creativity
Cornucopia of Colorful Creativity
​Midnight Madness and Meraki
​Shaping the World Like a Mold of Clay
May I Have This Dance?
It’s Music to my Ears
There is More to Color Than RGB

​Visit my Creativity Site - CREATIVITY CHAOS

​Download my Creativity Vocabulary Guide
Defining New Ideas - Dictionary of Creativity, Innovation and Design

A Bunch of Colors Not In Your Crayola Box​
Obscure Words for the Rainbow
​THERE IS MORE THAN RGB.

A CROWN OF RUBIES AND JEWELS
  • AMARANTHINE - dark purple red like dark red wine.
  • CARDINAL - deep scarlet red.
  • CINNABAR - red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment or a dark scarlet
  • COCCINEOUS - bright passion red
  • COQUELICOT - brilliant poppy red.
  • CRAMOISY - crimson red.
  • ERYTHRAEAN - a reddish hue
  • FLAMME DE VESUVE - the flame of Vesuvius or the color of lava
  • FLAMMEOUS - flame colored.
  • GINGERLINE - reddish violet or brown. Also describes a rich orange-yellow or the color of ripe kumquats.
  • HAEMATIC - blood red.
  • INCARNADINE - like a blood red carnation
  • KERMES - brilliant red color; from a red dye derived from insects
  • LATERITIOUS - brick red.
  • MADDER - red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish orange color
  • MODENA - crimson red.
  • PHOENICEOUS - deep scarlet red.
  • PICEOUS - the darkest red
  • PONCEAU - brilliant poppy red.
  • PUCCOON - bloodroot dark red
  • PYRRHOUS - a reddish ruddy color
  • RUFOUS - an earthy red.
  • RUSSET - an earthy red.
  • SANG-DE-BOEUF or “oxblood,” - a rich shade of coppery blood red
  • SANGUINEOUS - blood red.
  • STAMMEL - bright red color.
  • TESTACEOUS - brick red.
  • VERMEIL - bright red or vermilion color
  • VERMILION - crimson red.
  • VINACEOUS - wine red
  • VINOUS - deep burgundy red

A TASTE OF A JUICY FRUIT
  • AURULENT - gold colored
  • BANAN - the color of a ripe banana
  • BASTARD AMBER - amber color used to recreate sunlight or to give the illusion of dawn or dusk.
  • CHARTREUSE - yellow green mixture.
  • CHRYSOCHLOROUS - golden green
  • CITREOUS - a lemon yellow
  • CITRINE - dark yellow green
  • CROCEATE - orange yellow color of saffron
  • FLAVESCENT - turning yellow
  • GAMBOGE - vivid yellows of autumn or a thick spicy mustard.
  • IBIS - a pale apricot
  • ICTERINE - marked with yellow
  • ICTERITIOUS - like jaundice yellow
  • ISABELLINE - grey yellow
  • JACINTHE - color of orange juice
  • JESSAMY - yellow like a jasmine
  • LURID - dying pale yellow leaves
  • LUTEOLOUS - yellowish hue.
  • LUTEOUS - a golden yellow.
  • LUTESCENT - yellowish hue.
  • MELICHROUS - a honey yellow
  • MELINE CANARY - a canary yellow
  • NACARAT - bright orange red
  • OCHRE - a mustard yellow
  • OCHROLEUCOUS - yellowish white hue
  • OLIVACEOUS - a golden yellow.
  • PRIMROSE - pale yellow
  • SAFFRON - orange yellow
  • STRAMINEOUS - light straw colored
  • SULPHUREOUS - bright yellow.
  • TILLEUL - yellow green
  • VITELLARY - bright yellow.
  • WALLFLOWER - yellowish red
  • WHEATEN - golden ripe wheat
  • XANTHIC - yellowish hue.

GRASSY HILLS OF AN IRISH GREEN
  • CELADON - pale green.
  • CHLOROCHROUS - a leafy shade of green
  • DRAKE’S NECK - the iridescent green of the male mallard (duck).
  • EAU-DE-NIL - pale green.
  • OLIVACEOUS - olive green
  • PORRACEOUS - leek green.
  • PRASINOUS - leek green.
  • SMARAGDINE - emerald green
  • VIRESCENT - turning green
  • VIRID - bright green
  • VIRIDIAN - chrome green.
  • XANADU - green gray color of a Philodendron plant. Green with a tint of gray.
  • ZINNOBER - chrome green.

THE BLUE HUES OF OF THE SEA AND THE SKY
  • CESIOUS - bluish grey.
  • CYANEOUS - sky, dark blue or sea green
  • LABRADOR - derived from the mineral labradorite
  • MAZARINE - rich reddish blue
  • NATTIER - a deep shade of slate blue
  • PAVONATED - peacock blue
  • PERVENCHE - French for periwinkle
  • SMALT - deep blue.
  • ULTRAMARINE - deep blue.
  • VERDITER - a blue green like the sea.
  • WATCHET - very pale sky blue
  • ZAFFRE - ancient blue pigment from deep burning cobalt

THE ROYAL PLUM AND A BUBBLE GUM
  • AMARANTHINE - deep purple red
  • AUBERGINE - eggplant; dark purple
  • DRUNK-TANK - bright shade of pink said to be a calming influence.
  • FLAME-OF-BURNT BRANDY - mixture of lavender grey, pale yellow, and dark lilac.
  • HELIOTROPE - purplish hue from a flowering plant
  • HYACINTHINE - bluish purple
  • LANTHINE - violet.
  • LUSTY GALLANT - pale shade of pinkish red similar to coral pink.
  • PORPHYROUS - deep blue violet
  • PUNICEOUS - bright purplish red
  • PURPURE - royal purple
  • PURPUREAL - deep blue violet
  • RAZZMATAZZ - red rose pink color invented by Crayola
  • RHODOPSIN - deep blue violet
  • SOLFERINO - deep purple red
  • VIOLACEOUS - deep blue violet

EXPLORING NATURE IN HUES OF BROWN
  • BADIOUS - nutty or chestnut brown.
  • BRUNNEOUS - dark brown.
  • BURNET - dark brown.
  • CARNELIAN - reddish-orange or brownish-red color leaves, also found in quartz
  • CASTANEOUS - nutty or chestnut brown.
  • CASTORY - brown dye of beaver pelts
  • D’OREILLE D’OURS - a rich brown, literally “bear’s ears”
  • FALLOW - sandy brown named for fallow fields and soil
  • FEUILLE NORTE - French for a brownish-orange or yellow
  • FILEMOT - dead-leaf color; dull brown
  • FULVOUS - dull yellow brown or tawny.
  • FUSCOUS BROWN - tawny brown
  • INFUSCATE - tinged with brown; cloudy
  • LURID - yellow brown
  • NANKEEN - buff-colored cotton
  • SARCOLINE - Caucasian flesh
  • SEPIA - brownish tone of vintage photographs
  • SINOPIA - reddish brown.
  • SORREL - reddish brown chestnut
  • SPADICEOUS - nutty or chestnut brown.
  • TITIAN - red brown gold
  • UMBER - reddish brown chestnut
  • WILLOWISH - color of willow leaves

A RUDDY RED RUST
  • AENEOUS - shining bronze color
  • AUSTRALIEN - rusty color of the rocks and desert of the Australian outback
  • FALU - deep rust red color from the mines.
  • FERRUGINOUS - rust infused with iron
  • MINIACEOUS - color of reddish lead
  • MINIUM VERMILION - red lead.
  • PLUMBEOUS - red lead.
  • RUBIGINOUS - rusty color.
  • RUBIOUS - rusty color.
  • SINOPER - rusty color.
  • SINOPLE - pigment from hematite, an iron-rich rust-red mineral

BLACK AND WHITE COOKIES
  • ALBICANT - whitish; becoming white
  • ALBUGINEOUS - eye or egg white
  • ATROUS - jet black.
  • CRETACEOUS - chalk white
  • EBURNEAN - Ivory white
  • FULIGINOUS - dark and sooty
  • LEUCOCHROIC - pale white
  • MELANIC BLACK - very dark black
  • MOREL - midnight black
  • NIGRICANT - blackish
  • NIGRINE - jet black.
  • NIVEOUS - snowy white
  • WHEY - off-white

SHADES OF GREY
  • CAESIOUS - greyish blue green.
  • COLUMBINE - dove grey
  • ELEPHANT’S BREATH - steel gray
  • GLAUCOUS - bluish grey.
  • GRIDELIN violet - violet grey
  • GRISEOUS - pearl grey or blue grey
  • HOARY - pale silver grey color; aging grey
  • LIARD - grey or dapple-grey
  • LOVAT - greyish blue green.
  • PERSE - greyish blue green.

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Defining New Ideas is vocabulary book centered in divergent thought. That is your right brain, the creative one who dreams and creates, innovates, designs and produces your ideas. Divergent thought is powered by your imagination, driven by your passionate curiosity, and executed by your talent from the right side of the brain. And then plans are implemented by convergent thought - the left (rational and analytical) side.

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