Colour Inspiration

Following a visit to a not well known sacred site to gain inspiration, the profound experience stayed with me as I journeyed home.

Once inside I picked up the project where I’d left off hoping with fresh eyes and some distance I could now find the missing piece of the puzzle to enable me to complete it.

Then with a bang came clarity. A flash of inspiration that had for so long evaded me. To use a five colourway rather than the traditional two, then my mind came into play, this can’t work, shouldn’t work.... yet it did and beautifully so. By using five extra colours and against all the odds pulled the project together absolutely, just like the helicopter that goes against all known physics yet flies, here I was inspired to use colours that should clash and divide yet brought the project together beautifully and looked stunning.

A clashing feast of colour that worked!

As I sat back and admired the finished project, I thought long and hard of the importance of when working with colour we need to have the courage to step out of our comfort zone, to be brave. I have always taught, seek inspiration from nature, now I was going a step further And the result is amazing.

Instantly you can see whether it is right or wrong, so harness your courage and try something different, the result may surprise you.

Then I was reminded of the following quote.

“When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however impossible must be the truth”. Sherlock Holmes

Also, one of my own famous quotes came to mind too, a popular Junism

” Colour outside the lines”