How to Choose Art by Color and Mood
I get asked this question more than any other. What colors should I look for.
My answer is always the same. Start with the mood, not the color. The color comes after.
> Mood first, palette second
Ask yourself what you want the room to feel like before you walk in. Energized in the morning. Settled at night. Like the ocean is right outside even when it's not.
Once you know the mood, the colors usually pick themselves.
> Color does more than match your couch
A lot of people think about art the way they think about a throw pillow. Does it match. But color in a painting isn't decoration. It's a feeling translated onto canvas. A piece that feels calm will calm a room down. A piece that feels alive will wake one up.
> Trust what you keep coming back to
If you keep returning to the same colors in your search, blues, warm yellows, soft neutrals, bright yellows, that's not a coincidence. That's your eye telling you something about how you actually want to live in your space.
Some paintings just want to be lived with.