Mosaic Design & Color Formula for Mosaic Patterns

Mosaic Design & Color Formula for Mosaic Patterns
Hi, I’m Faith and I’m here at Flat Fork Studio, and I’m going to talk a little bit about design and color. Personally, I have a formula that I use all the time in making my designs. It’s called the 3-5-7 rule. Basically you take a look at all of your tile pieces that you have available to you, you think about the colors that you really want. My personal three favorite colors are this yellow, red, and I love this teal color. But how am I going to put it onto my board? How are you going to make it look good and uniform. Well, with the 3-5-7 rule that I use, I can fill this board very easily and make it look wonderfully uniform. Basically, I take the colors that I want. I have three pieces of yellow. I’ll start with these colors. I’ll put one here, one here, and maybe one here. Then I’ll come in- red. Red is a really hard color to find, so I’m usually pretty sparing with it, but I use it in almost every design that I do. On this, I may either use seven pieces, or I may use five pieces. Basically, what I’ll do is I’ll just sort of place them around…I’m not real big into symmetrics. But I’ll put them and arrange them just so that they’re sort of evenly dispersed around. Okay, here’s five. So we’ve done three yellow, five red. And we’re just kind of going to play with them just so they look kind of even around the board. The third thing that I’m going to use will be my turquoise. So I’ll come in here and use turquoise. And I’ll start- I may put one right next to each other. Start kind of fitting them together like a puzzle piece. There’s three here. Four, five, six-oh and let’s say we’ll put a really big one right there- seven. From here on, I can choose to either add more color or if I just want to a really nice sparse kind of a look, kind of what I do from here on is that I will either add more color…say that I want to put maybe three more red in there because I’d like to have more red. That looks nice. And I’d like to maybe put a little bit more blue. See how I’m sort of evenly dispersing them throughout? Now to finish this piece, I might put a border of a solid color around and then I will fill with white. Everything else then. White just goes everywhere else so that you have a unified, beautiful, professional looking piece. And that is how I use color and I use the 3-5-7 rule when I’m designing my tile pieces.