Colours are everywhere. Often, it becomes overwhelming to have the right combination in the art. Textbooks and guidebooks talk about colour theories, colour wheels and the specific combinations in them. That’s all fine and deep, but what about our satisfaction in the end? Even the closest to perfection of combination might look good on day A, but what about day F where our mood kind of dictates enough that we don’t want to see it on that day?

Colours on their own are like piano keys. One would have to press fingers to play. A rhythm needs to be established no matter what type of music it’s going to play. Otherwise, it would be a random noise. Colours are like that too. They require rhythm. There are ways to get rhythm in them. Rhythm must come from the soul depending on the mood.

The challenging thing is how to develop an eye for rhythm. Rhythm is not about the choice of the colours, but it’s what we do with that choice no matter what combination it is. Combination is like ingredients. From the same ingredients, one could make diverse types of food depending on the ratio and methodology. Colours are required to be treated in the same way. For this, trust is required just like the trust we have when we are cooking food.

Nature can guide the way we look at colours, but that’s not all of it. For instance, urban nightlife is not natural, but with the right rhythm, it has its own merit. The first campfire that happened in some extreme ancient past, it would be extraordinary how it would have felt for the very first time. The controlled fire, its glowing colours would have given the feeling which would not the be the same for those who already have an experience of it. It shows that colours related to experiences might become boring if they are used in the same way repeatedly.

When we are children, we deal with first-time experiences. If it’s the bubbles that give the reflections according to their surrounding or the wet mud colours, they all mark a critical thing in those experiences which is the fun and especially the first time for it to happen. This should keep going in life no matter what the age is. The closest we have rare or new experiences that deal with colours, the more profound joy is achieved. The urge to keep pursuing that path would be the path where one could say, “In Colours We Trust”…