Warm and cool colors have different affects on their viewer, and can be used to emphasize a particular feeling. James Gurney says, "The cool colors evoke feelings of winter, night, sky, shadow, sleep, and ice...blue suggests quietness, restfulness, and calm. Warm colors make us think of fire, hot spices, and blood. They connote energy and passion." (Color & Light, pg. 112)
(Ananta Mandal, Wandering in the Desert, 2014)
(William Flanagan, Blue Morning)
Warm colors include red, orange, yellow, and yellow-green, while cool colors are purple, blue, and blue-green.
When mixing colored light, it's called additive color mixing, and behaves differently than pigment. The shadow in warm light will be cool, and the shadow in cool light will be warm.
(James Gurney, Dinotopia)
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