Colour me happy

by amandamoonheadwear

Colour inspiration is all around me. I have this mental file and my phone camera that stores away colours  and colour combinations that help me understand how colours relate.

I’ve lived surrounded by white walls but I don’t lack colour in my life.  The white helps me see the colour.  It was my mum that helped me to see colour.  She didn’t teach me it, she just let me see it and we’d just enjoy it together.  The flat I grew up in, in London, never had curtains in the main living spaces.  Nothing blocked the windows and light flooded in.  The decor was/is simple but carefully chosen, and those chosen pieces are there for a reason.  For you to see beauty and enjoy.   So now, you can see below the link between quick snap pictures and some work.

Little dots of colour at my ‘growing up’ home.  It’s all about the way colours sit together or how the light shows the purity of a colour.

    

        

        

Having spent time in Brazil with my mum, you can’t avoid colour. Visit Paraty to be inspired. The key holder  was something I picked up in Haiti 20 something years ago… colour is a magnet is to the eyes (then and now).

  

And then, just walking about.  The pictures aren’t great but they’re enough to trigger my thoughts on colour.  For example, how the acid green somehow makes the redness of the red redder! And, there it is, in reverse proportions; red to green.

  

Back to Brazil, we ate lots of carrots and beetroot. Tastes good but looks incredible too.  In their contrast they complement.

      

And it’s not all about bright.  Sometimes, it’s the soft harmonious colours, that seem to hug each other and just belong together.

   

They help me see combinations like these…

   Thistle Button

If you can get your head around my  lack of photographic skills, the point is, inspiration is all around.  On this side of the world, most of us carry a mobile and we can hold inspiration.  Capture the things that are beautiful and that make you smile.  For me, colour puts  a smile on my face. Colour makes me happy.