Natures colour palette
Posted April 28th, 2009.
Lauren Marie over at Creative Curio was kind enough to share half a dozen of her great photos and accompanying colour palettes found in the natural world.
“Nature provides some of the most striking and beautiful color palettes imaginable! You don’t have to look far to find great inspiration. Flowers especially can give you such a varied and bright color scheme that you will never run out of ideas.
I had so many flower pictures I wanted to share with you, but this is one of my favourites. Notice how the complimentary colors of green and red are present in nature. Red and yellow are two parts of the triad of primary colors (blue is the other one), too.”
“Now we plunge under the depths of the Solomon Islands. This little critter is called a nudibranch (pronounce the ‘ch’ as ‘k’). These little guys come in all sorts of brilliant colors and crazy shapes!
Some look like leopards, others are charcoal with black spots and others have funny little tufts and dusters along their backs (which is actually how they breathe!).
Our friend here and his surroundings provide us with a beautiful palette of greens, purples, maroon and orange, which could be effectively used to highlight a particular element in a layout.”
What do you think?
Read the rest of her article for more great examples.
