Using a Color Scheme - Homework 4

For this project, I started with a photograph in our collection of a young teenager modeling a flower headdress at the Renaissance Faire. I liked the vibrant color combination of mostly red and blue and decided to create a triadic color scheme by adding some yellow. I used two other photographs for the final image, both of which I purchased from iStockphoto. I found an image of a single daisy that was a very saturated yellow and wasn’t sure what I’d do with it but after playing around decided I liked it enhancing the headdress in a kind of sun ray sort of way. I turned down the color saturation on it a bit (if you can believe it). I was still thinking of sun rays when I found the second image for the background, which is a photograph of some aged decorative paper. I liked the rather dirty look it had and the way the soft orangey tones add a bit of harmony to the scheme. I think a triadic scheme of primary colors would have looked too harsh without some sort of softening effect.