Showing posts with label Color. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Color. Show all posts
Friday, April 19, 2013
Color Your World
Coloring my world not just visually -- Pantone can definitely do that -- but through my imagination, through thinking positive and beautiful thoughts and feeling good inside, without the aid of external circumstances.
"One Light, a million colors." Love color. Live color.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Pistachio Green and Brown/Dark Chocolate, Tous Le Jours
A classy, fresh , refreshing,not-so-common color combination : pistachio or seafoam green and brown or dark chocolate :
So I was pleased as pleased having some photos at an artisan bakery shop 'Tous les Jours' which is decorated in the same color combination motif:
There are times when sweating the small but beautiful stuff works!
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Colour My World
Coffee liqueur, timberwolf, shadow, emberglow, granny smith apple, beaver, bittersweet.. who would think they are color names...
Pantone presents the 2011 color trends that designers, both fashion and interior, would likely consider in their palettes.
In my grade school in the sixties, a favorite was my supply of Crayola's box of eight colors [the first box of Crayola crayons (eight in a box) hit stores in 1903]. In my forties, I got myself Crayolas 64 in a box, if only for looking at. I haven't seen it yet but the number is supposed to be 120 now.
Well, I can always have a virtual peek at the new Crayola line.
As one old Asian saying goes "One light but a million colors."
Pantone presents the 2011 color trends that designers, both fashion and interior, would likely consider in their palettes.
In my grade school in the sixties, a favorite was my supply of Crayola's box of eight colors [the first box of Crayola crayons (eight in a box) hit stores in 1903]. In my forties, I got myself Crayolas 64 in a box, if only for looking at. I haven't seen it yet but the number is supposed to be 120 now.
Well, I can always have a virtual peek at the new Crayola line.
As one old Asian saying goes "One light but a million colors."
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Colour My World
I am a colorist...that's my newest realization. I love colors and I like neutrals because they can serve as a backdrop to showcase colors. Colors also seem to describe the stages in my life or the consciousness I had/have in those stages in my life. For the longest time, the colors I could relate to were the blues and the indigos and the browns ( couldn't wear clothes in yellow, orange or red), for the times when I was asking the question "Where is what we started for so long ago and why is it yet unfound?" (Walt Whitman).
Then, when I did find an answer to the question, sometime in the early 2000's, my colours du jour were shades of yellow-greens (sunshine coming through at last) and the lighter shades of blue like turquoise. I also started appreciating yellows and oranges. It was not until 2006, when I was aware that there were some internal blockages causing some rut and stagnation in my growth, that I purposely wore clothes in magenta which I read somewhere was the color for overcoming internal obstacles and mental stonewalls. I also started gravitating towards red, a color I didn't have any affinity to before. Now , I can wear the rainbow.
Surfing, I came across this video about a color-loving designer (Thanks,Jessi Arrington) and I thought I'd bring this up in my blog to celebrate colours, the rainbow, my realization that I'm a colorist and to celebrate colour-loving people.
Check this out :
Her blog: http://luckysoandso.com
Then, when I did find an answer to the question, sometime in the early 2000's, my colours du jour were shades of yellow-greens (sunshine coming through at last) and the lighter shades of blue like turquoise. I also started appreciating yellows and oranges. It was not until 2006, when I was aware that there were some internal blockages causing some rut and stagnation in my growth, that I purposely wore clothes in magenta which I read somewhere was the color for overcoming internal obstacles and mental stonewalls. I also started gravitating towards red, a color I didn't have any affinity to before. Now , I can wear the rainbow.
Surfing, I came across this video about a color-loving designer (Thanks,Jessi Arrington) and I thought I'd bring this up in my blog to celebrate colours, the rainbow, my realization that I'm a colorist and to celebrate colour-loving people.
Check this out :
Her blog: http://luckysoandso.com
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Fashion by Color
First of all, I'm re-embracing my interest in fashion and fashion design, which for quite a long time, I shoved in the sidelines in favor of things less "frivolous" and more "serious". But then , it has caught up with me again and I realize that it's something that makes me happy and it's something I turn to when the more serious things get tough.
So to mark this occasion,here's Fashion TV's Jonathan Sauders 2011 London Fashion Week video.
Remarkable are the use of solid colors in dusty but strong colors as rust, dark periwinkles, dark reds and blues; prints, some stripes and geometrics, do not overwhelm and the over-all silhouette is streamlined and bordering on classic. One is not distracted by unnecessary design details. There are splashes of interesting color combinations -- salmon skirt peeking out of a dark blue coat, some sort of kelly green and black, orange under a lacework of grayish blue green. Check out the photo below :
So to mark this occasion,here's Fashion TV's Jonathan Sauders 2011 London Fashion Week video.
Remarkable are the use of solid colors in dusty but strong colors as rust, dark periwinkles, dark reds and blues; prints, some stripes and geometrics, do not overwhelm and the over-all silhouette is streamlined and bordering on classic. One is not distracted by unnecessary design details. There are splashes of interesting color combinations -- salmon skirt peeking out of a dark blue coat, some sort of kelly green and black, orange under a lacework of grayish blue green. Check out the photo below :
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