YOUR OWN COLOR SCHEMES
1. Start cutting out pictures that you like
or that are unusual or that attract your mood. You might like to add them
for any reason, it dosen't matter. Find them in photographs, newspapers,
paintings, magazines, anywhere. They can be black and white or color, they
can be landscapes or figurative, they can be parts or the whole, whenever
you see one cut it out and put it away. Later you can classify it. Carry
a pair of scissors wherever you go.
2. When you have a good pile divide the cuttings
into black and white pictures and pictures with color. Ask yourself if
you are attracted to a picture because of its hues or because of its values
... or both. This will give you three piles of cuttings - value, hue and
a mixture.
3. Look at the third catageory again, squint
a lot, and force the cutting back into either the black and white or color
pile.
4. Your black and whites will become your design
pile and the color will be your color schemes pile.
5. Further classify your color schemes by mood.
This is a completely subjective thing and something you need to justify
to no one. You might like to make a category of peaceful schemes or violent
ones, sad or happy, melancoloy or disturbing.
6. Take a picture from your design pile and
match it with the mood scheme you think is most appropiate from your color
scheme pile.
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