Beauty Day 2: Harmony

In order to dive deeply into beauty, I’m starting with the basics. In a simple Google search one of the first videos that caught my eye was this video from BlenderGuru on understanding color.

While I lean toward the belief that creating beauty necessitates a certain amount of freedom, I do need to admit that most art masters arrive at a similar understanding of how to use color to their advantage. Whether through formal training or experimentation, there is no avoiding the fact that some people are born with a natural eye for color harmony and others need to work toward a more structured understanding.

I’m not sure which side I lean toward, but I do know that I know nothing about color.

Part avoidance, part resistance, part fear of exploration — my experience with color is mostly, “I do/don’t like (insert thing here).” I’ve never been able to fully understand or explain why or how things affect me a certain way beyond personal preference. The video by Blender Guru really helped to clarify and demystify why some color schemes can uplift a person or tear them down, and the power that color has in our everyday interactions.

So in my quest to create beauty, it’s time to figure out why I prefer my preferences, and how to develop more informed decision making processes when it comes to creating beauty.