19 INSPIRATION WITH COLOR

The appearance of a summer flower or shiny glazed ceramics alone can easily inspire us to use pastel shades. And the faded and muted colors of the ancient Byzantine frescoes will forever leave an indelible impression.

Pastel gamut is widely represented in changeable colors of natural origin. A small drop of pastel color mixed with a white and neutral tone can create the mood of a warm sandy beach or a cool water stream. Imagine a pastel shade of lime, transient in yellow-green on the outer leaves of the soft dairy husks of the corncob, or the tender blue tint of a glowing radiance coming from a distant glacier. Delicate tones of natural origin are a reliable and inexhaustible source for creating a harmonious pastel palette.

At various times, artists and certain movements in art, such as painters who worked in the technique of abstract painting in the 1950s, used transparent shades of color to evoke lyrical and melodic feelings. These artists sometimes used transparent pastel colors when coloring large areas of the painting, using muted color to create mood reflections (for example, Rothko's paintings, which are hung in Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas). Pastel colors were widely used by the surrealists (a movement that originated in France in the 1920s and 1930s) to evoke from the subconscious and create fabulous images.

For color solutions you can refer to certain historical periods. For example, the pastel tonny craze originated in the United States in the 1950s, and this was essentially a protest of the post-war society against the grays of war that ruled in the 1940s. Fashion and clothing retailers, packaging and automobile designers, and even Hollywood used these optimistic tones that young people liked so much. Today, pastel colors are rediscovered, this time as pure fresh retro colors with unusual, referring to the past names like “blue - hold-in”, “pink - powder for puff” and “green-sea foam”. Pastel palette often relies on harmony and order and creates a soothing mood. Today, alternative medicine, such as color therapy, often uses combinations of pastel colors to help a person relax and bring harmony to his mind and soul.

PASTEL TISSUES

The search for new pastel shades can be as simple as the study of numerous fabrics of various textures. For example, pay attention to bright and airy patterns of shiny cotton sateen, soft and fluffy mohair, crisp flax or the pale sheen of many transparent synthetic fabrics. When color is used selectively, as in many pastel combinations, texture and shape become extremely important for the palette. The shape of the product, the lines of the letters of the font or the silhouette of the chair - due to pastel colors - become more visible.