See last week's post for part one of this tutorial!
The analogous color scheme starts with
the dominant color that you’ve already identified, and adds colors
that are adjacent on the color wheel. In this case, I have chosen to
go from blue through teals, true green, to yellowish green. We could
have gone from blue through the purples instead, but I made the first
choice since the focal piece does have green in it, and has no
purple. There are plenty of colors to choose from in this piece: I
don’t think it’s necessary to add too many more!
Remember, if you choose this scheme,
you should consider all the tints, tones, and shades of the colors as
well as the pure hues.
Once you have your analogous color
scheme set up, it’s a very easy matter to add one of the
complementary colors, most often the complement to the dominant
color. In this case, I have added the pale orange that we saw
before. An analogous-complementary color scheme has just a bit more
pop and sizzle than a plain analogous scheme. That may not always be
what you want though, so I feel it’s still worthwhile to consider
both.
Interestingly, in this case, we could
achieve the look of an analogous-complementary scheme by adding a
liberal amount of golden or copper metal throughout the piece! Well,
isn’t that convenient?
The last color scheme that I want to
examine is the triadic. It consists of three colors, spaced
somewhat equally around the color wheel. Here we’ll start with
blue, and add red and yellow, which are all spaced an equal distance
from each other. Most likely we would not use all three pure hues,
but maybe use pale pinks and yellows with the stronger blue.
I feel we are starting to splash too
many unrelated colors around here. If the focal piece had any pink
in it, it might be really nice, especially with the pale yellow
echoing the gold dichroic glass. But there is no pink, and the
scheme totally ignores the green which is also so prominent along
with the blue of the focal piece. I also didn’t care for a triad
based upon green (adding purple and orange), and didn’t even bother
to photograph it.
Since this fused glass piece uses both
blue and green glass, and they are both so strong, I am leaning
towards using either an analogous or analogous-complementary scheme.
A monochromatic blue scheme would be fine too, but it feels too
“safe” to me compared to how lively the focal piece is. Again, if you
disagree with my choices, that is perfectly fine. The bead police
will not show up at your door and confiscate your stash!
So, join me next week when I share the tutorial for stringing this one up!
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