Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

Create your own color palette

I have found just one more addiction to occupy my free time. Thanks to a few forum regulars on Etsy, I have discovered a new web site that allows you to create color palettes. You can name your palettes and even name new colors that you use. Other users are then able to comment and vote on your color choices.


The website, Colour Lovers, is very user friendly. It was quick to sign up with a user id and password. I immediately began my color hunt.


My first palette creation, named Hot Buttered Rum uses warm tones of red, yellow and green.

It has already recieved one love vote!



My favorite color palette I created is called Cous Cous.
It features earthy tones from ochre to olive

I named 4 of the colors in this one.
It begins with cous cous, then sienna (this had been named already, but I would have called it baby poop), steel rod, ash and finally martini.
This palette reminds me of the desert with a moroccan flair. I am waiting for my genie to pop out of her bottle and grant me my wish!

Don't Burst My Bubble

I am on a bubble kick right now. My son is loving the bubbles and we have so many contraptions for bubble making. We have electric guns, nospill bubble cups and huge bubble wands.
I have a new design I am toying with that involves bubbles. The hard part is, how do I represent a 3 dimensional, transparent object through silk screen? I have been looking at other bubble objects and found so many different ways to depict bubbles.


Here are some of my favorite items I have come across.

I love these bubble coasters by allisonsphotography
She is a fellow nature lover out of Montreal.


What a perfect graphic for a coaster. They are just asking for a bubbly concoction to rest on them.

She even makes these in a set of eight for parties or in my case, when I start loosing them as I always do!


I love the cool colors and the mix of circular rings with full bubbles.








I also like these funky bubble earrings by jewelera

Derya Aksoy is a multi-talented jewelry designer who creates intricate pieces that can be seen in her blog, Derya's Jewelry.

I like the different sized circles fused together in this cool pattern




I love the colors and swirls in this painting by ttgart
This is actually a 3 print reproduction of the original painting.




I like the white swirls inside the colored bubbles. I like the cool blues with the deep purples and yellow spotted in.






Hmm, this would look lovely in my office. I must resist...