Colour Theory at work
I have been preparing pieces for the South East Open Studio exhibition which opens next month. I made the first two beads of the series doing what I always do, which is to grab leftover clay and proceed from there, struggling to find a colour to mix that would "go" with the rest. I had some crimson and pale blue and mixed the turquoise to create the first bead and the burgundy for the second bead. This is what I obtained.
Then I thought - "Hang on. Let's have a "tabula rasa" approach and apply colour theory from scratch." I decided to work in the analogous harmony range and mixed various reds. This is what I produced.
Then I pushed my luck and wondered what would happen if I kept the analogous harmony going but tried to offset the warm colours with a complementary. This is what came out.
Dropping the analogous theme and focusing on a complementary harmony only:
From now on, I think I am going to stick to colour theory principles. No?
- My favorite color combination by far is the bead in 3rd row down on left. For some reason the juxtaposition of yellow-green and red-violet is very appealing to me. Maybe this is because the colors seem to contain the 3 primaries in somewhat more balanced quantities than in the bead to its right. I think I may be feeling a lack of blue in the right-hand bead that seems to focus on yellow & red with only the tiniest bit of blue in the greens and brownish. Whereas the violet in the left-hand bead seems to bring the color scheme into a more pleasing balance. Does this make sense? --suzanne
- I agree with Suzanne's choice of favourite. I guess you will all have heard of the book "ColorWorks" - The crafter's guide to color, by Deb Menz? It's a useful workbook with handy cut-outs to experiment with colour mixes and learn about split complementaries, triads etc.
(from visitor Domi) - Domi, thank you for mentioning "colour Works". It's a book I bought a while back and now find myself keeping on my bench for easy reference. I spend my money on books carefully and Deb Menz's guide to color was definitely a wise purchase. Thank you for posting and I hope to read you often.
- Your approach is very interesting. You live what you are doing. I like very much your third bead because of the balance of shapes. The burgundy colour of the fourth bead give a warm effect. This warm effect is amplifyed by the round shapes what I don not feel at looking at the last bead. VeTe
- I don't know what happened to your pictures, but they are not loading when I look at this post. Can you fix it? I would love to see the color combinations you are talking about.
Mechelle
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