Simple Geometric Color Swatch Art

Simple geometric color swatch art is a great exercise to try right now! Looking for an interesting way to learn about color combinations with results that are just so satisfying? Looking for a fun art project for all ages? This just might be the one! These bars of color are so simple to create, either in a sketchbook, or on paper, or even canvas, you just have to give it a try! You can use oil pastel, acrylic paint, colored pencils, watercolor or a mixed media combination. Do thick bars with acrylic paint and then go back and fill the bars with doodles or marks, note to self! Or choose to do squares or any combo of geometric shapes. Choose a set palette of 5 or 6 colors, plus white, and then have fun placing one color next to another. How did I get those bars of color to be so crisp? Keep on reading, I even took a process photo, imagine that!

The process photo below shows tape, in this case washi tape which one uses to define the stripes! Removing the tape is the best part of the project, and I can assure you everyone will want to do it again, I sure do!

Truthfully, one does not have to do color swatch stripes, use the washi tape to define areas that are square, rectangular or triangular if you desire!

An exercise like this one that explores combinations of color and even how different amounts of color look when placed next to one another develops skills for working with color, whether it be in art, interior design or even daily clothing choices, or fashion. For those of us who love color and for whom color and color combinations everywhere bring joy and interest, encouraging others to think about color is only natural.