This collection of Pantone swatches makes it easy to group colours together and individually see what colours work well when applying colour to an image and also exploring various tones, hues and gradients.
I plan on creating a colour palette mood board with these postcards on my home study wall where I can group, swap and interchange various colour swatches to see what works best when applying colour to my work. This will also help me to keep in mind what we were taught in the first year of this course: Keep a palette simple and have it comprise of 3-4 colours of similar tonal/harmonious qualities. Choose a final "accent" colour, a key colour that pops/jumps out/contrasts to be used to highlight important elements within the composition and help to guide the eye.
Pantone is a huge and widely recognised chart/collection of colours. Each is available in both digital printed media and software as well as physical analogue media such as screen print ink and paint.
"Pantone, Inc. is the authority on color, provider of color systems and leading technology for accurate communication of color." http://www.pantone.com/
By using the colours individual code, an exact swatch/colour choice can be selected and applied to my illustrations.
Adobe Photoshop CC Pantone Swatches
When thinking about colour and how to apply it to my work, I am also beginning to make use of Adobe Color CC. I constantly take reference photos and screenshots of landscapes/scenes/packaging/other practitioners works etc where the use of colour has really inspired me. Using Adobe Color CC, I can input this reference imagery and have the program select the various colours I find interesting in a variety of ways. From there, I can save my swatch selection and create a library of palettes to apply to future work both digitally and to use as reference for my analogue work.
Adobe Color CC
https://color.adobe.com
Using reference imagery
Pinterest - Colour Board
In order to collate my reference imagery for colour palette inspiration and have groups of colours that work well together to refer back too and try out for myself, I have started a Pinterest Board just for colour. There are many links and pins on Pinterest dedicated to colour, theory, palettes and application, and I plan on making the most of this so that i can develop an in depth library of colour inspiration and reference to add too. I plan on using this growing collection to
- gain a sense of how light can be depicted (and applied) in various colours/tones/hues etc within a composition
- learn about various palette trends throughout varying seasons and themes
- improve my knowledge of colour application, colour communication and how light and colour work together.
(I need to figure out a category system as the collection gets bigger ha!)
