"3 Stunning Flower Colour Combinations from Famous Artists for Your Outdoor Flower-Filled Studio"

How to use colours in the paintings of your favourite artists to plan your flower colour palette.

What better way to get inspiration for the flower colours in your outdoor flower filled studio than to use colour combinations from your favourite paintings. To start my flower colour journey I looked at the paint colours used in the work of 3 artistic movements and found flower combinations to match the colour palettes of each one. Below are short videos of the Impressionist, Pop Art and Fauve artistic movements along with a few suggestions of flowers to match the predominant colours of these movements. I chose the colour palette of a Claude Monet painting in the Impressionist style as the basis of the colours in my garden. My flower choices are at the bottom of this post. Which movement inspires you from the 3 shown in the videos below? Let me know in the comments section at the bottom of this post.

Monet & Impressionism: Pastel Colours For Flower Combinations.

Monet is famous for his paintings of nature and for his garden at Giverny. The flower colour combinations for this famous artist were carefully planned and maintained. His main colour combinations of green, blue & bluey-purple were often used with warm reds & yellows as accents to pull the eye to one place or another. Monet also often made subtle, pastel colour paints by adding white to his colour mixes giving rise to amazingly atmospheric scenes. To achieve an Impressionist colour scheme in your garden view the short video below:

The opening frame in the video is 'The Path Through The Irises' by Claude Monet. (1914-17)

Warhol & Pop Art: Primary Colours & Black For Flower Combinations.

Andy Warhol is probably the most famous Pop Art icon. Rather than blending colours, he used stark, primary colours in blocks often separated by black lines so that each colour remained distinct. The primary colours are red, blue and yellow, so if you respond to bright and vibrant colour combinations in your garden use the plant combinations in the video below. There are many black flowers too, so use these to separate the primary colours in your garden if you want to be a purist of this artistic style. In the video below I have shown a few examples of plants that bloom in primary colours.

The opening frame of the video below is the 'Marilyn Diptych' screenprint by Andy Warhol (1962)

Derain & Fauvism: Complimentary Colours For Flower Combinations.

Derain was one of the most important artists of the Fauve movement. This movement broke all the norms of painting in the early 1900's with their bold use of colour. The Fauves or "Wld Beasts" as they were also known, paired complimentary colours together in their paintings i.e: colours from opposite sides of the colour wheel such as purple & yellow, reds & green, orange & blue. The Fauves disregarded the accepted more restful colour palettes of the impressionist movement. They believed that placing two colours from opposite sides of the colour wheel next to each other made each of them look brighter. To achieve a Fauvist colour scheme in your garden see the plant combinations in the video below.

The opening frame of the video below is 'The Turning Road, L'Estaque by Andre Derain (1906)

My Flower Planting Plan:

I have adopted the Impressionist approach for the flower combination planting plan in my garden. I am using creamy whites, pale yellows and stark whites as a backdrop on my fences with more vibrant, accent colours in front to create drama. The hard landscaping and fences are a soft blue/green. Accent colours in strong pinks and peaches are the colours I have chosen for the tearoses, roses and peonies in the foregrounds.

Flower Colour Combination Inspired By Famous Artists for My Garden:

Below is a list and an image board of the plants in my flower palette:

Shocking Pink, Coral & Creamy Peonies, Coral, White, Lilac & Creamy Tearoses, White & Pale Yellow Climbing Roses, Blue & White Hibiscus, Blue & White Agapanthas, 1 x Blue/Lilac Wisteria growing on the new arch, Creamy Orange Blossom, White Clematis, White Hydrangeas, Blue Delhiniums, Pink & Lilac Sweet Peas, 2 x Olive Trees, Yellow Honeysuckle, White Jasmine, Lilac & Pink Lupins, Shocking Pink Bourganvillia, Bluebells in memory of my Mum.

ART UPDATE:

I have just posted a tutorial on painting wisteria flowers on my Youtube channel:. Go to Youtube and type in the Youtube search bar /@nartomioriginalart.

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