![]() ![]() There are 9 Neutral Undertones in the World See them Here ![]() I gained a lot from it, and now I do not second guess my color choice because a client is telling me “but I really love this color” I WILL NOT BACK DOWN on what the undertones are telling me! And now I have the reasons WHY they should not settle either!” Karen sent along this note to go along with her video with Sam: Here’s a Video Testimonial from Karen Gray Plaisted and Samantha Ring from Design Solutions KGP who attended my Toronto Specify Colour with Confidence workshop this past Spring. So look, if you are a decorator, interior designer, stager, architect or colour enthusiast, you should join me this year! This is the system for working with colour in interiors and exteriors and you won’t learn it anywhere else but in a live class with me. So much better than in the past where you had to come all the way to Canada. If I’m close to a city near you this Fall and all you need to do is book a hotel room, or take a short flight, now is the time. So do not cross your fingers and wait for me to show up in the distant future. So just to be clear, I’m NOT doing a full American tour every year. I keep getting emails asking me when I’ll be in this city or that city with my workshop. Over to you my lovelies, I’d love to hear what you think? Working at a paint store years ago, every time I spoke to an interior design student who walked in looking for help with their complementary or analogous colour wheel homework assignments, I would think to myself, “That exercise seems so useless”, because never once did I walk into a client’s home and say “Today I’m going to give you a split complimentary colour palette”.Īnd that is why my system works, because it’s fundamentally useful, and it takes the world of thousands of colours and turns it into a manageable and simple way to choose colour for paint to fabrics to tiles and everything in between. The colour wheel has very little to tell us about working with complex neutrals and whites in interiors. But he was trying to understand the spectrum, not how to coordinate fabrics, tiles and other finishes. Sir Isaac Newton gave us the colour wheel, and many of us get basic colour theory – primaries, secondaries, complimentraries, etc. This last section about Isaac Newton was added to this explanation by Tricia Firmaniuk my fabulous virtual design assistant: My system is the periodic table of understanding undertones: it gives you clear sense of how colours behave in every space. What he did was study them so thoroughly that he noticed patterns in how they were configured and how they behaved.Įver since he published this table, scientists have been using it to understand and predict how chemical elements behave. He didn’t invent these chemical elements. He developed this table to show trends in the properties of chemical elements. In 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev organized and published the first widely recognized periodic table. I’ve also uncovered another way of explaining the difference between regular colour theory and my Understanding Undertones™ system, this is courtesy of Irene Hill (my amazing freelance writer):ĭo you remember studying the Periodic Table in your high school chemistry class? The outer circles represent the most useful whites from blue white to greige with true white, the white you would use to compare to all the others, on the outside ring. dirty) then there is the darker circle of neutral undertones which includes gold beige, and the lighter circle of neutrals for a total of 9 neutral undertones. Here’s how it works, the inner wheel represents the primary colour wheel, the next circle is slightly more muted (clean vs. Understanding Undertones® – The Colour System In the meantime, you can catch a glimpse of my new logo in the middle of this colour wheel. It’s taken a village to get this far let me tell you! Well, it’s been a long time coming but it’s finally here! The feedback I received from the first agency I hired to design my new site was “You don’t have a colour wheel that shows your colour system, that’s the first thing you need”.
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