Hello there, Polly Stefanie here highlighting Angela’s art Journaling challenge for this final week of February. You can find it in the Lilypad forum, HERE.
Each week we are exploring different colour schemes, and this week our scheme is Monochromatic.
What is a Monochromatic (or Monotone for short) colour scheme?
Basically Monotone is defined as only using only one colour (or hue as we call it in colour theory). The monochromatic scale is created by adding black to get a darker colour (the tone) or adding white to get a lighter colour (the tint)
In digital scrapbooking the best way to visualise this is to look at the colour dialogue.
The colour in my colour picker is my main colour. Have the colour view option set to HSL mode.
Then look at the L slider – by moving that left or right we get the tones and tints for our monochromatic colour pallet.
Using Monotone
Here are 3 ways you could use monotone in your digital scrapbooking / digital art journaling.
1. Use papers and elements of the same colour (including light and dark versions)
The easiest way to do this is choose a large kit, or a collab with plenty of options.
2. Choose a coloured paper, and paint on it with brushes and stamps etc. Use the colour picker to get the colour of your paper, and adjust that L slider to get the tones and tints.
3. Use whatever supplies you want to use. Then place a coloured solid paper in the top layer. Set the blending mode of that paper to hue.
Your challenge this week is to create a layout using one colour with it’s tones and tints. You can add a little black or white if you need to, but keep it minimum – focus on your chosen colour. The topic/theme of your layout can be about anything you like.
Have fun.
You can create any style of page i.e. clean and simple, artsy, pocket style etc,. Your page can be all digital or hybrid. Wherever the inspiration takes you as long as you include TLP products on your page.
I created a layout and then tried out a variety of different colours, before finding the one I loved.
I tried blue,
then yellow,
and settled on this warm brown colour.
I really loved this easy, new to me technique and hope you give it a try too.
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