Love (or Hate) of Color

I love color. My mother is an artist, and I grew up loving anything she was doing.  Whenever she was painting, I wanted to paint.  Her medium when I was a child was guache, but now she works with oil on canvas.  She makes these beautiful masterpieces that are just incredible.  It has been fun to watch her painting styles morph over the years from folk art to realism to abstract.  It is truly a transformation.  As she is painting, she will often sit, stare, and ponder over her paintings.  She says the fun thing about oil paint is that she has days to decide if the thing she just painted will stay there or not.  What she ends up with is always immaculate, and you can always truly see inside her mind when she is done.

I have a love for color as well.  While I cannot paint nearly as well as her, the love of color has definitely been passed down.  I love to play with colors, to see the balance of colors.  I love working with online platforms that allow you to scroll your mouse over all of the possible shades of a red, or a blue, or a green to find the perfect shade that just seems to click.  I find it fun to mix and match colors to come up with the color scheme that would work best for the overall design.  

This week, in a wedding styling course that I am taking, I have been given a super interesting, and fun… and hard… task of taking a color scheme that I absolutely hate and design a wedding around it.  I completely understand the task.  I understand that I will have weddings come up that have a color scheme that I hate.  (And trust me… I’ve done them!)

I’ve decided my colors for this assignment are lime green and bubble gum pink.  I think these colors have no place in a wedding.  While they can be fun and bright, I see these colors more as summer colors you find on a beach.  (My umbrella in my coconut flavored drink should be these colors.)  These aren’t necessarily colors that I would equate to the elegance of a wedding.  I have actually managed a wedding where the primary color scheme was bubble gum pink and gold.  It was horrible.  I remember thinking it looked like a children’s birthday party, not an elegant wedding.  

So… that is my fun and crazy task for this week.  Show me the colors you hate.  What are some of the crazy color schemes you have seen that you just thought were awful!  I want to know!  I have seen some horrible ideas, but let’s hear it!