The color scheme of the surrounding world of nature is full at first glance of hundreds, thousands, and maybe even more shades. When they change, the appearance of the clothes, interior, image changes. Oddly enough, the apparent color chaos is subject to the strict laws of combinations. “Monochrome colors are in fashion again” - we read in the magazine. What does it mean? We turn to specialists.
Initial Coloring Lesson
In fact, the tint range is not as diverse as it seems at first glance. The entire color palette of shades is tied around three original primary colors: red, yellow and blue. All the rest are derivatives of mixing primary colors in different proportions. By the way, mixing all three primary colors in absolutely equal proportions gives black.
Color combinations obey their laws, and make up four main groups.
- Monochrome colors. Harmonious transitions in different shades of the same color, can be diluted with white. ("Mono" - one).
- Related colors. They are united in one "family" with the main common color. They also have four subgroups: yellow-red, blue-red, yellow-green and blue-green.
- Contrasting. Dramatically opposed to each other, warring and dissimilar. In nature, such combinations of red flowers on green leaves look appropriate; in design decisions, their opposite direction is usually mitigated by the “diplomatic” influence of any neutral unifying shade.
- Related Contrast. Colors from different "families" that initially have one thing in common. The palette of such colors looks brighter than monochrome, but not as antagonistic as with contrasts. Example: yellow-red with violet (blue-red).
Monochrome colors in clothes
The monochrome style of clothing has nothing to do with monotonous, gray and boring. Everyone wants to look stylish. Those who doubt their ability to choose the matching colors of parts of clothing and accessories tend to clothe themselves in win-win black, white and gray. Allow yourself only occasionally to dilute the classics with a bright blouse or scarf? Completely in vain. Knowing the basic laws of the color wheel allows you to look elegant and, at the same time, discreet and businesslike. To do this, it’s enough to choose your wardrobe according to the monochrome combination of various shades of the same color, using small details of the main palette. But the classic black and white accents will help to confirm the image that corresponds to the moment: stricter or softer.
Stylish makeup
Bright and contrasting face colors in the style of "a la Indians" has long been considered bad form. Where do fashion trends come from? To answer this question, it is worth observing the appearance of world-class stars present at various kinds of festivals, competitions, and meetings regarding the presentation of prestigious awards. The looks created by their designers eventually become No. 1 brands. So, the color tone of the makeup of several stars at once at the last Golden Globe awarding ceremony corresponded to all the rules of monochrome. The colors of the makeup of the eyes, lips, faces were kept in the same color scheme.
Monochrome interior
The monochrome combination of colors of one palette in the interior design is a good solution for any room: from a business office to a romantic bedroom. New-fashioned techno, loft or kitsch styles, the basis of which is the denial of any accepted norms, the combination of the incompatible and the combination of the incompatible, tend to exert painful pressure on the psyche very soon. Especially if you live in such a room all the time. Vanguard is suitable for places of youth gatherings, living rooms. The most favorable for comfortable perception, from the point of view of psychology and Feng Shui, is the interior, designed in monochrome.
Monochrome art
We have learned to use matching colors to create works of art a long time ago. Our great-grandmothers, not knowing the science-based rules, created whole masterpieces on the canvases, embroidering blue flowers on a blue background, or a white ornament on white. Monochrome paintings are characteristic of the paintings of Japan and China, the Impressionists, artistic painting on porcelain.
Modern artists also often resort to such a color to emphasize the interconnectedness of everything in nature, their inner experiences.
Black and white photographs, graphic images using the technique of two colors - this is already a slightly different direction, which is called a binary image.
Fashionable flower beds
In the gardening design, bright mixed flowerbeds, which combined all the riot of colors, are aggressively replaced by flower beds, designed in one gamut. And this is not surprising, the monochrome colors of the flower beds enhance the effect of the greenery of the garden, the corner of your favorite color serves as a place of relaxation, and finally it looks stylish. The yellow flower beds look like a beautiful sunspot, bright colors of red-pink flowers fill the garden with tenderness. Shades from pale blue to violet-blue in combination with greens soothe an irritated psyche. Such compositions look simple, but are created by painstaking work. The selection of plants matching in color, suitable for one soil, the abundance of moisture and light, their arrangement in growth requires patience and great love for such work.
Natural Monochrome
The human eye always perceives combinations from a palette of the same color calmly, as something natural. This is the harmony of nature itself. We see the color tone of one gamut daily, not realizing that the most faithful admirer of monochromy is the Creator and the universe. How harmoniously painted the sky at summer noon: blue with white, blue and gray, smooth transitions of shades on the fur coats of animals. And the sea! What shades it does not create in a day. Even the sultry desert is painted harmoniously and monochromely.