a scheme of colors

A project; a contrivance; a plan of something to be done; a design.  Thus we may say to form, a scheme, to lay a scheme, to contrive.

A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies.

I’m scheming in colors.
I’m arranging folders.
I’m packing poems into suitcases.
I’m lining up little watercolor tins

I’ll be scheming in colors as a Library Research Fellow
at Historic Deerfield using their Wolf Color book collection

 [Moses Harris, ‘scheme of colours’ found in Alexandra Loske’s ‘The Book of Colour Concepts ]

[scheme definition 1828 Websters]