Color is the most powerful tool an artist can use to capture a mood or express an emotion. All artists share the challenge of creating an appropriate feeling using harmonious colors. The 12 Indigo Tones seasonal tone swatch books perfectly capture the essential seasonal harmonies based on Albert Munsell’s color theory and the Seasonal color theory of the Impressionist painters.
Flat paint chips or a color harmony PDF cannot reflect the nuances of materials that artists typically use, like fabric, paint, beads, yarns, or paper. For crafting, quilting, needle working, knitting, crocheting, weaving, spinning, scrapbooking, and card making, your Indigo Tones fabric color harmony book will help you pick the perfect color combination every time.
My students struggle the most in choosing color combinations that work, whether it’s with beads, stones, metals, or fibers. Using Kerry’s color swatch books would help them easily find color combinations that are harmonious and work best for them.
Susan, Jewelry Instructor
A personal color analysis at Indigo Tones identifies a range of colors that harmonize with a person’s natural color utilizing two color theories combined: Albert Munsell’s Theory of Color and the Seasonal Color Theory of the Impressionist painters.
Humans are able to perceive thousands of different color shades, and name colors differently. Albert Munsell, artist and teacher, created the Munsell color wheel for artists that is the global standard for organizing color harmony. It indicates colors that are true to nature based on these 3 dimensions: Value - the lightness or darkness of a color; Hue - the amount of warmth or coolness of a color ; Intensity - the brightness or dullness of a color.
Changing the value, hue or intensity of a color can completely change our reaction to it. Too many unrelated colors will spoil the harmony. Pretty colors randomly placed often result in a cha-otic look that won’t support the subject.
Margaret Kessler, Color Harmony in your Paintings
While observing nature, the impressionist painters came to understand the unique color tones associated with each season. Nature leaves nothing to chance and all in nature is in perfect color harmony. In Spring we see the bright greens bursting on trees, while Autumn tones are more earthy and muted. It is the same with people. Everyone can wear green, but some need brighter green to look vibrant and healthy, while some look better in a soft, earthy green. And it is the same with art.
Nature leaves nothing to chance. It gives us our hair color, eye color, and skin tone in perfect harmony. When we put color around us — in clothing, cosmetics, hair color, or accessories — we can either heighten that harmony, or we can create disharmony. Your personal color analysis will lead to one seasonal tone that has a range of colors that are perfectly balanced with your coloring.
Nature is the source of all true color. In her harmonies are supreme beauty and artistry. Each flower's stem displays just the right match of greens. Each animal's fur sports its own sublime tonal gradations.
Margie Deeb, Beader’s Guide to Color
