An Analysis of Colour Metaphors of Emotions in Jimmy’s Picture Book-Turn Lift, Turn Right

Abstract

The analysis in this paper aims to find colour metaphors in the artist Jimmy Liao’s picture book Turn Lift, Turn right, and to use the pictures in this book to establish the relations between colour and emotions. This paper selects seven pictures of indoor scenes from this picture book, and brings forth an illustration by observing that different colours can be used as metaphor to convey different emotions. The results clearly indicate that the author Jimmy choose a large number of warm colour (such as yellow, red and orange) to present the positive emotions (like energy, passion and strength), while the cool colour (like blue and gray) to give out negative feelings (such as fear of loss, sorrow, heartbreaking).