Designers Guide to Color - BOOKS 1 & 2

 

I'm exploring colors for my dragons and dragon earrings.  I have a set of 5 books that are nothing but COLOR inspiration. 

 

These books are available used pretty cheap on Amazon. 

I completed my set with books 4 & 5 last week. 

 

I get into ruts of my happy colors.  Purple, Blue and Green (especially Teal Green)

 

 

 

 nothing but pages and pages of color combinations

 

 

 

 So book one looks like this

 

 

This book has mostly 2 color combinations

 

 

 

 

but is has a few 3 color combinations and

I have already beaded dragon earrings from them

 

 

and I plan to make a dragon from this

color combo in the bottom right corner

 

 

 

This is book 2

It has lots of 3 color combos

 

 

 and some 2 color combos

 

 

lots of combos I would never put together myself

but are very nice

 

 

 I am not into the pastel colors

 

 

 but bright vivid colors are my fave

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Time to get back to my beading

 

I hope you go looking for color on your own

 

I have gone to fabric web sights and gotten inspiration

 

I used a 3 color parachute cord to get a combo so I went looking for more multi color inspiration

 

Where do you get your color inspiration?

I'm beginning a journey about color and how to put colors together - join me!

A little back story....  In July 2015, I started dreaming about a dragon necklace.  It would be 3D and it's feet would stick out...  And I made one.   It turned out pretty cool.

Then I made one that showed the colors better so I could make a pattern

Which can be found in my Etsy shop

Well then I started making them and naming them - playing with colors

And then my cousin dreamed about my dragon only as an earring.

and that night I came home to make this pattern

 

 

I was wanting to play out of my color comfort zone so I dug out these cool books on color

 

And I opened them to find color combinations



 

 

and I made these

 

 

And then these

 

 

made these

 



So I used books on color to come up with theses

I looked some other places to get color inspiration like at the striped parachute cord at the bead store I work at.  I picked pink, olivine and grey out from one of those. 

You can search for things like quilt squares or quilt fabrics to get inspiration.  Most of you can probably open your closet and find all kinds of combos in there.

So I'm going to try to document a journey on color inspiration