Colour Experimentation

From the pattern development I have decided to move forward with the below design, I choose this as I felt it was the most successful design to be used across a wall and it for me have the most interesting qualities. So baring this in mind and the theme of the wallpaper, I needed to look at different colours to see what was appropriate. However whilst doing this I needed to remember that this wallpaper would be screen printed so the colours available to me are much wider in terms making the ink more special using metallic or pearlescent.

The first colour way is Hot Pink, this has been a favourite of mine since I began the research process on paisley patterns. I really like how vibrant and attention grabbing the colour is. There are some issues with using pink, firstly the digital wallpaper main colour way is Pink, so it wouldn't be wise to re use the same colour and secondly, I wanted this pattern to have a more neutral feel to it attracting both males and females and pink obviously doesn't do that. So in terms of the large wall drop print out I couldn't use it, but it is a potential swatch colour.

This second colour way is a deep yellow, however I have only used this to represent gold ink, I think to use a metallic colour on the main drop would help show off the piece as an expensive and luxurious wallpaper. The link would also be found in traditional paisley patterns and Indian designs. This colour way would really help support the theme of the wallpaper enforcing the paisley design. A final point to make here would be that the colour would be very neutral which I mentioned was something I wanted above for this design. I also find that this would help the wallpaper be suitable for a variety of rooms in the house and not juts one.

Purple was another common colour in my research, this perhaps doesn't work as well as it could on a white background, which is something I will develop later on, however the purple does look really beautiful with the pattern, but I am not convinced it would be a successful colour way used as a wallpaper.

Finally I have chosen green, unfortunately this isn't as luminous as I would have liked but that can be altered at the print process, I really like the use of green on context patterns I have found, however similar to teh purple working on its own with a plain background, it does'nt seem to work as well as some of the earlier colour choices.