Last week I indulged in the studio and immersed myself in a beautiful world of sea glass, soulful old trade beads and silver. Using the color wheel as my creative astrolabe or North Star I navigated the waters of color theory and found myself adventuring in a whole new universe. I made several bracelets according to the design principles of color theory. Two are pictured below and pictures of the rest of the bracelets I made last week will appear in my next blog post.
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| Triadic Composition: Primary Colors |
The bracelet above has pink, yellow and cobalt blue sea glass along with some old glass and stone beads. This color combination is a triad that is made up of three colors that are equidistant from each other on the color wheel. A harmonious composition with energizing contrast. The use of pink softens the contrast. This color scheme is refreshing, grounded and cheerful.
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| Split Complementary: Red, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green |
This bracelet is a split complementary where one color is selected (red bead) along with two colors that are next to it's complimentary on the color wheel (yellow-green sea glass and blue-green bead). In this color composition contrast is still alive but with a confidence that is a little more casual.
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Lisl, I love your blog. You're Color Harmony is so helpful. It reminded me to get out my color wheel and use it!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Maureen Huzinec
yes a very harmonious competition, love the bracelet and your choice of colours, good idea to add a red bead in with the seaglass. After all it isn't like we can walk the beaches and pick red seaglass in numbers. http://scrapandwrap.ca/blog/ (ps I"m not able to add my wordpress blog address above to your comment section.... gives illegal characters???) I'll look at this after I post.
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