Beading - Color Harmony For Great Beading Patterns - Use Fresh Blue With Fiery Orange

One of the biggest challenges that faces you when choosing beads for a piece of beaded jewelry is the wide choice of colors. A tip to help you make this task easier is to concentrate on one color and its different shades. It is, however, very inspiring to work with various colors. You do require considerable knowledge of colors to be able to do this effectively. An easy way to be sure that your color combinations are well balanced is to concentrate on complementary colors. The colors that are opposite each other on a color wheel are complementary. This means that they harmonize well together. Just by using beads belonging to a complementary pair will help you make strikingly beautiful beaded jewelry.

Two colors that look gorgeous together, and complement each other, are blue and orange. You will often find this combination used in traditional Tibetan jewelry. Their combination of turquoise and coral is brilliant and highly decorative to wear. When the clam, pensive blue is paired with the vivid fun loving orange, it takes on quite a different expression. Blue is suddenly bold, friendly, energetic and strong. Indeed, it is most difficult for the dignified blue to resist the contagious vitality and exciting, pulsating energy of the gorgeous orange. One has the impression that there is a high energy flirt going on when these two colors are combined. If you have seen some of the lovely Tibetan jewelry made of coral and turquoise, you will know what I mean. Certainly, wearing a beaded necklace made of this strong color combination will add glamor to your clothes, especially to any of your blue outfits.

What makes it easy to combine interesting beading combinations when using complementary colors is the fact that this system works with all shades of the complementary pair. In the case of blue and orange, lighter shades of orange, such as apricot or beige, will look great with all shades of blue, such as dark blue, soft blues or strong primal blues. The darker shades of orange, such as russets and browns, will look equally fascinating contrasted with pale blues. There is an endless possibility of mixing these two colors with all their shades to create beautiful beaded jewelry. The art of beading allows you to be so creative when working with colors. The wide choice of beads in all shapes and colors makes it possible to create that perfect piece for your outfit. This naturally allows you to create a very individual accent which makes you so special.