This work explored the formation of creative abilities in the training of design artists to design a comfortable human settings using colour schemes in fine art objects. In this context, this study used the following methods: 1) structural analysis, 2) comparative analysis using expert elicitation, and 3) compositional methods. Meanwhile, a group of respondents were employed to analyse the world-famous works of art. Accordingly, the main compositional methods of colour schemes of fine art objects were identified to create a given emotional and associative effect when perceiving in the interior. Consequently, a training method consisting of sequential logical steps was proposed and developed. Based on the methods, the students completed a practical task of developing a colour scheme of an abstract composition placed in the interior, thus forming a given emotional state and association corresponding to the creative idea. Regarding the example of student works performed, the effectiveness of using the research results was obtained. The proposed practical methods of conscious choice of the colour scheme of fine art objects in the interior to create a comfortable human settings are urgent directions for the development of environmental thinking in the training of design artists for their future professional activities.