Green Aesthetic | Junk Journal Stuff

Green is always considered to be a primary colour, meaning it can tie into a lot of aesthetics as well as its own. Green aesthetic colours can vary in tint and tone depending on the combination of blue and yellow used, from a rich and dark forest green to bright neon or fluorescent shades. Green is my favourite colour so I use it tons as both a main and accent in a lot of spreads; plenty of nature stuff of course, especially trees, but it also works great for space themes, or as an unexpected spike of brightness in a more muted spread.

“Green is the prime colour of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Most people recognise green from its abundance in nature, where it is mostly caused by chlorophyll in plants, although many forms of wildlife have also evolved to various shades of green in order to camouflage themselves against predators (or to aid in hunting prey). As a symbolic colour green is quite similar between eastern and western cultures; in the west, green is usually taken to mean something is natural or in harmony with nature, symbolises growth, and shows wealth, while in China green is considered to represent cleanliness, fertility, and purity. In parts of Europe, especially in the early modern era, green was very prominently a sign of financial prosperity and often used by bankers and wealthy merchants (whereas red was reserved for the more ceremonially-focused nobility).