Colour Combo's

Some more colour inspiration for your day-

I really love this bright and poppy combo!

Colour Inspiration

Just a bit of colour love for your Wednesday afternoon :)

There's just something about grey with hit of colour that gets my juices flowing! This bright, almost coral pink is just heavenly to me, especially with the cool blue thrown in. Oh and the fact that its on a floating house makes it even cooler. Imagine living on a house that floats! Apparantly some of the locals (in Vancouver and on Granville Island) kayak work. Seriously. Too cool.

Abiento x

Art Inspiration

Based on my work yesterday with colour boards (read my journal entry to find out more) I started browsing the web to find more images with strong colour combos. Amazingly some of mine aren't great for this type of project (pherhaps something I need to work on?) After a few minutes of browsing this is what I found from just two tumblr pages! Aren't they all beautiful?

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Alot of these images evoke dreamy feelings and I really wish I could produce art/photos that do that. These are two tumblrs I found the majority of images from. Aren't they entrancing?! :)


http://this-is-unique.tumblr.com/


http://ennaland.tumblr.com/

Abiento x

Journal Writings Term 2 Day 1

I had most of my week prepared and planned last week. I knew what I wanted to be doing. I have lots of work to get through! So, while there may be little to write about on here this week (in my journal) that is because I will be busy writing my essay....!!


Today however was about showing heightened awareness of colours. This was a task set to me weeks ago. And after a suggestion of using watercolour paints to try and reach through to me in a physical way, that involves paint, I messed around. I did a big page of colour splodges and then gave up and went to play with the fabric paints. The fabric always calls to me... :) That worked a bit better, but with the exhibition at the end of last term, I had little time and didn't really play around as much as I would have liked. Over the break however I found, and reminded myself of all the great moodboards I have made, and all the fantastic ones that are about on the internet. With colour themes. So, today I created my own. Digitally. Not quite the point of being physical with paint (something I hate) but it has worked. Later this week I will endeavor to try with paint, my paint. On fabric! But for now this is what I did:

The idea behind creating these is that I can easily show to someone that I am aware of the colours in an image, and the colours from that image (or piece of work) that compliment each other and work well together. It also therefore creates a great colour flickbook for me to browse through when deciding on a colour scheme for something. I can simply take the colours away from the image and reapply them. While this is a very simple idea that just proves a point, it is a days work unwasted. I'm sure I will use them time and time again, and continue creating them.

Abiento x