Matching dominant colours will create a more uniform and calming look. (styleathome.com)
I have arranged these flowers with a background that contrasts with the most dominant colours in the floral, but that is more muted in hue so that it accents rather than competes with the flowers. (arttutor.com)
Particularly evident in Gerber's oil painting L» Origine du Monde # 1 (1992), a generic European landscape scene, depicting a twin waterfall and faded alpine mountains in the background, painted in a mid-key, cool dominant colour scheme, and structured using a vanishing - point perspective. (rochfordstreetreview.com)