Blue & Gold tartan concept

[OC Richard]

Yes it's me still beating that 'blue and gold tartan' drum

Not completely happy with what's currently available, I thought I'd take a stab at it myself.

The trick is to not make it look like a 'blue and yellow' tartan, nor 'blue and brown'.

I'm combining two colours of yellow plus brown and white to attempt to make it look golden. (When gold is depicted in paintings it's usually done with yellow, dark brown, and white.)

Another trick, which I learned in looking at the University of California Riverside tartan, is that to avoid the blue and yellow mixing in the tartan and looking green, you must use a blue that tends to the purple and a yellow which tends to the orange (blue + yellow = green, blue-violet + yellow-orange = neutral).



Another version with a slightly different shade of blue, and the yellow/brown/white area being all equal-width stripes, which is perhaps stronger visually



Here, for comparison, is the bespoke tartan of The Charleston (South Carolina) Police Pipes & Drums



Here's the thread I started a while back on blue & gold tartans

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...s-again-70755/