Delphiniums in my Shawnee Pottery Vase
The blue just explodes out of the vase. |
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I love this, using food for a color scheme!
I used a soft butter color as the color for our house once. People would stop and ask what color number and brand the paint was!
I used a soft butter color as the color for our house once. People would stop and ask what color number and brand the paint was!
Love this combination of colors and fabrics!
Many people think complementary colors are so called because they look nice together. Complementary colors are often combined to produce a pleasing effect. That's what I always thought until I started doing a little bit more reading up on color wheels. Actually they're called complementary because they complete the color spectrum.
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I came across a very interesting site called The Muser Physics & Physiology of Color.
Here's what was said about how this all works....
The blue we use as an additive primary color contains light from one-third of the spectrum. Yellow contains the light from the remaining two-thirds of the spectrum (red+green). When blue and yellow light are added together, they produce white light. So one pair of complementary colors is blue and yellow. Another pair is green and magenta. Another is red and cyan. (source)
Now I always just knew that these colors worked together and I knew that I loved the combination. Perhaps it's because our brains are happy when the color spectrum is complete. Kind of gives a new meaning to "You Complete Me" doesn't it?