Looking for ways to mix up your color pallet and create unique florals this spring? Check out this vibrant card and snag some tips for coloring.
Are you ready for spring? Even thought it’s been cold, I can see tulips & hyacinths starting to push up through the dirt in the flowerbeds. Won’t be too much longer. In honor of the coming spring I have a very flowery card today colored in using mostly complementary colors. A little unusual but I’m liking how the colors look together. Keep reading for a mini art theory tutorial using these colors.
How to make this card:
- To make my card, I colored & die cut all the flowers with their coordinating dies.
- The one flower hanging over the greeting oval is actually part of a larger image, but it was trimmed to what you see.
- The greeting is from another set, but I liked how fit w/ the card & also fit onto the oval.
- After I had all my flowers, I cut the white panel & a purple one to go behind it. I did the same w/ the greeting then went about putting them all together.
- I really like how the dot dash rectangle & oval let the color behind show through.
- The flowers on the side are popped up one more layer.
Color Theory:
- Here’s a mini Color/Coloring Theory tutorial.The scratch sheet below gives you a bit of an idea how I arrived at the colors I used.
- Before coloring, I almost always stamp onto printer paper & try out my color combos. Even though I have a chart showing all the Copic colors, it helps me tremendously to test them out.
- Since it’s thin paper, I don’t really blend much, just test enough to see how they work w/ each other. (The colors I used are in the last picture.)
- I will mention, when using complementary colors (opposites on the color wheel, like purple & yellow), it’s a good rule to not color them over each other, you will end up with mud.
- You can get away with a little bit, but not much & they won’t blend well unless you want a dirty, muddy color.
- One thing complementary colors do well is brighten each other & the contrast catches your eye.
