Where is the inspiration of color?

Learning color design can get inspiration from nature, photographic works, movie pictures, clothing accessories and home soft magazines, just as painting art creation needs to collect creativity from life. In addition, Pantone, the world's authoritative color agency, publishes popular color trends every year. Its guidance on color matching is not limited to the fashion field, but also widely used in the field of soft design. Paying more attention to this information is very helpful for learning color matching.

The feeling of color comes from nature.

Nature is rich in colors, such as plants, animals, rocks, trees and flowers. Shapes and colors are ever-changing, and natural scenery and meteorology are also endless and interesting, which can be called a natural treasure house of colors. As long as we carefully observe, analyze and study, and then give a choice from part to whole, it is easy to apply color to design. Nature is the greatest designer, and the color matching system extracted from the natural landscape is beautiful and natural and elegant. The perfect combination of these colors can also inspire endless decorative creativity and inspiration. If the colors in nature are used in the soft decoration design, the colors of the whole work will be harmonious and intimate.

TINT and its name, designed with the theme of nature, have a strong natural flavor. For example, the colors named after the scenery are tropical jungle color, desert color, grassland color, ocean lake color and so on; The colors named after fruits are olive, orange, plum purple, pink, apple green, grape purple, lemon yellow and so on. The colors named after plants are brown, brown, red bean paste, willow green, rose red, tulip, cyan, orange, grass green, wisteria, etc. The colors named after animals are bustard (light pink), parrot crane, yellow phoenix, silver rat, rat ash, coral, peacock green, crane top red and so on. The colors named after metal minerals are rust color, silver gray, coal black, golden yellow, copper color, bronze color, copper green, sapphire blue, cobalt blue and so on.

There are many ways to learn color from nature, among which the most effective way is to select some color pictures of landscapes, animals and plants, analyze their color composition, calculate, refine and summarize the relationship between their color areas and proportions, and then form several different chromatograms as data in color design.

Seek inspiration from painting.

The colors in painting have full expressive force and relative independence, and the expression methods are rich and colorful. The colors in excellent paintings are full of the artist's rich emotions, and the orderly colors in the picture stimulate the viewer's psychology and feelings, such as mondriaan's color block segmentation technique. Collecting colors from excellent paintings is a more direct and effective method. In particular, some works with a great sense of modernity and spirituality, such as those of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso, have modern aesthetic concepts and are full of individuality. The design based on the color inspiration of these paintings will have different and fresh color matching effects, which is especially beneficial to get rid of their own inherent color habits and break through the limitations of their own color application, so as to set foot in a broader color world and experience more color charm.

Draw the essence from traditional culture

China's traditional culture and art have accumulated for 5,000 years and are profound. If soft colors need to reflect the characteristics and spirit of the classical nation, we can learn from the great traditional culture.

With the integration of global culture, traditional colors are becoming more and more blurred, but we can still find a long-standing traditional atmosphere from our lives. The colors existing in traditional national culture are mostly exaggerated, bright, bright and concise, with strong contrast and harmonious unity. For example, primitive painted pottery, lacquerware in the Han Dynasty, silk, tri-colored embroidery in the Tang Dynasty, embroidery in Suzhou, Hangzhou and Sichuan, carved beams and painted buildings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and folk material and intangible cultural heritage, such as dough figurines, clay figurines, New Year pictures, batiks, tie-dyeing and national costumes. , are full of bright and strong enthusiasm for life, with strong local flavor and regional charm.

Capture popular colors from fashion.

There are several popular colors in each period to reflect the flavor of the times. We must pay full attention to this point in order to design clothes with a sense of the times and creativity. Therefore, every season's fashion show can bring new color trends, and popular colors almost all start from fashion. A keen soft-fitting designer can capture the latest color information from the trend and apply it to the living room space, constantly injecting new vitality into life.