A Hint of Colour

I'm still up to my eyeballs with making/painting my own diorama furniture, so I have been too busy to take photos this week. However, I have this post which I hope will help my fellow diorama enthusiasts who may be struggling with colour.

Colour plays an important role when it comes to decorating a diorama and the use of a colour wheel is really beneficial to develop colour schemes with these key approaches.

Monochromatic 

Three shades, tones or tints of one base colour. This variation of a single colour creates schemes which are serene and relaxing. Light tones create a relaxed delicate feel, whereas dark tones can feel moody and dramatic. Mixing light and dark tones is easy to apply to design projects for a harmonious look.

Complementary

These colours can be found on the opposite sides of the colour wheel, such as lime and hot pink or blue and orange. Used together, the colours will appear brighter and more prominent.

Contrasting

Colours which are not in the same colour “family” or that aren’t exactly harmonious can work very well together. By using a bold or deep colour from one area of the colour spectrum and using a lighter colour from a different family, the overall impact can be quite striking, like lemon yellow and royal blue.

Aside from those above, there are other combinations, such as Triadic and Split Complimentary, but for the purpose of making dioramas, they are not really necessary. As the saying goes "less is more" and it's easy to complicate a room by introducing too many variations of colour into such a small space.

I hope this post helps those aspiring diorama builders out there in the dolly world, colour is a great inspiration to me and so much fun to experiment with and I do love having fun . . .  don't you?

NOTE; PHOTOS WERE SOURCED FROM PINTEREST

Quick Note & A Belated Happy Halloween

Some of you have already picked up on this, but just to bring you up to date . . . I recently changed the title of A Little Dolly Toybox to The Little Dolly Toybox, so you may want to change any links you have to it.

An oldie but a goodie :)

I'm still working on my diorama, but should have some new photos for you soon. Things have been kinda hectic here lately as Victoria has finally come out of stage 4 lockdown and we can now travel up to 25 kilometres from home, shops and food outlets are open again too. So after 112 days of total hibernation, I have managed to have my nails done and actually have a proper lunch with my daughter and dine at a restaurant with my hubby . . . feels sooooo good!

I know things are not going well in the northern hemisphere and I hope and pray you all stay safe and healthy. Keep safe distancing and WEAR YOUR MASKS!!! I know they can be horribly annoying, but believe me it helps.

Diorama Progress

It's been a little while since I last posted and I am aware I have been slack in replying to all your comments, for this I apologise. At this late stage I probably won't get round to it, but I thank you for them and for continuing to drop by.

I have finally found a few moments to take photos of my diorama progress so far, though they are not the best. However, they will give you an idea of what I have been doing so far . . . and there's so much more to come.

This is the gold room, with a salmon coloured carpet which I have decided to use with another room in future. I am also working on a small half round side table with a pink marble top to go under the back window.

I'm happier with this carpet, though it's only made of paper as a test run. I will re-print it on fabric at a later date.

I still need to re-paint the skirting boards so they are nice and white like the window frames. I am really happy with the marble floor though. The gold and grey furniture is available in raw form from Fairy Meadow Miniatures.

With the room box walls reversed and the grey furniture which will eventually be used in my Fleur & Ruben diorama. The ice mint furniture below, was made from kits I purchased from Etsy (sorry I cannot remember the name of the store). The carpet is also made of paper, and which I will re-print on fabric.

You can see more clearly the garden scenes I have used outside the windows. I made these by using photos of gardens I found on the internet, printing them out on A4 paper then gluing it to crocodile board. Hubby made me wooden stands to slot them in, which is great, because I can change them as I need.

My models were my Kurhn Fashion Week Sweet Lolita and my Integrity Toys Poppy Parker™ Gardens of Versailles. Well that's it for today my lovelies.