Sunday, January 30, 2011

Find BEAUTY in Color & Warm Metallics

Look up and look outward to see life's color even as the night sets in.  Fix your gaze forward, straining for hope, joy and inspiration for love (C.S. Spurgeon).

Soft Glow

Burning Pink January Skies

The picture's color scheme ties in nicely to
Pantone's Spring/Summer 2011 Color Trends
Find BEAUTY in color & "warm metallics".
See Below.

Pantone 2011 Color Trends:
The color forecasting company encourages all to "emphasize beauty through use of color. Find inspiration in the world of flowers. Love gold, bronze and all warm metallics. Go for simple, basic shapes in complex final products."

Color of the Year: HONEYSUCKLE
"Energizing Honeysuckles Lifts Spirits and Imparts Confidence to Meet Life's Ongoing Challenges"



Here is a foreshadow to warm weather's soft palette this year...


Designer Application...


Tuesday, January 18, 2011

(Pre)Shoot to "Shattered"

Shattered: To Break Apart
Broken: Violently Separated into parts; Not complete or full

Life is full of brokenness—its round shape seeming to hang in space waiting to drop—to shatter into tiny pieces.  War, displacement, addiction, divorce..

Life can be dark—clouds looming as obstacles, impairing vision for perspective, causing confusion.  Searching, searching for identity and where it fits in this broken world.

Shattered Horizon by PhantomGalaxy

These words are written as the inspiration for a photo shoot.
A dark wardrobe featuring geometric shapes, mirror and chain create the editorial entitled “Shattered”.

The images from the shoot are soon to come.  (Here is a sneak peek of a necklace I made for the occasion.  It is composed of broken glass, screen, washers, and silver chain).


For now, here are some test shots produced by the talented Sean Watson.











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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Blue Hue

Even when the skies are gray and the air is cold enough to blur your eyes with tears, color crouches in the shadows waiting to be discovered.


Brilliant green moss grows because of dark dampness

Spring will bring Color back into the equation.
Akris Spring 2011 features naturally bright hues 

Yes winter in Seattle has the potential to cause the doldrums.  Allow this statement to re-evaluate your situation:

Are you blue?  Why fall subject to this state of mind when blue is the color of clarity and refreshment, of depth and change?


Liquidity of Emilio Pucci's chiffon gown

Dip into the puddles of sorrow within you and reach out, painting the sky a more majestic hue.

Setting Sun atop White Pass

It takes eyes wide-open to focus.  Take advantage of life's colorful opportunities.

One of my favorite memories of this winter:
On my break from work, I wandered down to Pike's Place Market to witness a clear day's setting sun.  I was among many who stopped to capture the beautiful scene.  Two onlookers behind me were on there way to the next destination.  As the sun dropped below the horizon, one said, "Alright, that was cool.  Let's go."  The other responded, "Not yet.  We have to wait for the sun to splash up on the clouds".

What a beautiful statement!  Let us all look for life's silver lining.  The clouds are present to intensify the sun's color.



Not only a silver lining--but GOLDEN

A Fashionable Response:
Lanvin introduces a natural palette at the beginning of in his spring 2011 collection.  An intermission is made as the muted colors transform into a colorful array of pink, red, yellow, blue, and purple.  The sun sets once again to conclude with natural hues.



Rather than letting "blue" affect your interior state, let the cold air crack your gray perspective and spill the color blue into your wardrobe choices.  Akris and Emilio Pucci exemplify this trend:

Emilio Pucci Spring 2011

Akris Spring 2011