What do green art prints do for you? Colors do matter. Apparently we have physiological responses to color as well as mood responses. According to the March 2004 Home and Garden, the favorite color for a toothbrush among Americans is blue. What’s your guess for next favorite? If you said romantic lilac, you would be right.

What about green? According to a Cornell study the positive mode of “green suggests nature (plant life, forests), life, stability, restfulness, naturalness.” The “restfulness” brings to mind the line in the 23rd Psalm, “He makes me lie down in green pastures…He restores my soul.” The Paint Quality Institute states that, “As the dominant color in nature, we are at home with green anywhere in the house.” So green seems to be a natural and calming color in the right context (if your face is turning green, we might say that’s not calming).

See for yourself with art prints. Is “Lake George Early Moonrise” by Georgia O'Keeffe calming to you? How about “Gamberaia Creek” by Joe Sambataro? A familiar calming painting is “Water Lilies” by – you guessed it – Claude Monet. These three art prints use shades of green as a major theme. Explore other examples of the use of green in paintings. Happy St. Patrick's Day!