Colour Collaborative: April

Photo credit: Boris Schapira

 Tradition

It is sometimes hard to split apart the words 'tradition' and 'old'.  Traditions are of course repeated and handed down, often for many years and generations and that is why I think I associate the word with dark colours.  Colours that have become weighed down with age and responsibility .  They are classic colours that are used again and again.  They are respectable and solid.

It's Gryffindor red and British racing green.  It's noble navy blues and worn brown leather bound tomes.  That why that first picture is there, to represent the age and history of tradition.

But then what could be more traditional than the pomp and ceremony of royal parades and military regalia? Here we still have the somber navy and and ubiquitous black but we have bright scarlet too and, as this is for celebration, bright shiny silver and gold.  A much brighter palette that the fusty old library feel I was thinking of before.

Photo Credit: UK Ministry of Defence

But traditions don't have to be old of course.  We make new ones all the time.  I always eat one brussel sprout at Christmas, I don't like the things, but a it's become a tradition.  It's a word which is often used as a defence.  Many things are held onto and continue as they have done because of tradition but what is a tradition, but a routine?  Something that has worked before and so therefore gets repeated.

Routines are probably a little easier to break than traditions.  Routines don't have the weight of history on their shoulders.  So, how would I break with routine and use my traditional colours in a new way?

Photo Credit: Death to Stock Photos

I love this palette, even though I'm not usually happy to contain myself to the warmer end of the spectrum.  But here I like the perky pink against the aging brown and terracotta colours and the mustard which give the darker colours a lift too.

Photo Credit: Death to Stock Photos

I've always loved a dark green against a pale, teal or aqua blue, ever since I saw the two paired on a beautiful womans outfit in a film long ago.  It has a 50's feel to it I think and I love that this palette manages to bring the deep red in too.  I wouldn't have thought the deep forest green and the rich red could ever have worked together.

Photo Credit: Christian Guthier

Then there is something more surprising.  This makes a pretty unusual palette, the dark green is still there, but with a peachy orange and a musty purple.  The contrasting pale blue sky and the yellow of the grape are a classic combo and help hold the whole thing together but here are colours I never would have picked out to work next to each other,  but mother nature knows her stuff and I shall just look and learn.

So, do you have a 'traditional' colour palette that you like to use and would you dare to break out and throw in some new colours?


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Don't forget to check out the other great 'Colour Collaborative' blogs
for more of today's great posts...

Annie at Knitsofacto
Gillian at Tales From a Happy House
Jennifer at Thistlebear
Claire at Above the River

What is The Colour Collaborative?  All creative bloggers make stuff, gather stuff, shape stuff, and share stuff. Mostly they work on their own, but what happens when a group of them work together? Is a creative collaboration greater than the sum of its parts? We think so and we hope you will too. We'll each be offering our own monthly take on a colour related theme, and hoping that in combination  our ideas will encourage us, and perhaps you, to think about colour in new ways.

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