Thank you Polyvore

moodboard

http://www.polyvore.com/mercy_me/set?id=17321674


other links

http://www.polyvore.com/free_flower_clipart/thing?id=74440

Albers-inspired Furniture

Color studies are not just for paper, they're for furniture and upholstery too. See here.

Pitter-Patterns

Here's a website that acts like an image database of print patterns that one can buy, or one can upload to and sell!

I found my homework answers right here, too.

1 - inspired by nature, but chaotic and random in print, click here.

2 - geometric pattern, (very Albers, too) click here.

3 - photographic, freeform or based in type, 2 patterns together, kaleidoscopic, click here.

The Next Secret Weapon

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon.

A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb.

And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one.

It would explode high in the air - explode softly

- and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air.

Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas.

And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight.

Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in.

With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach

and lime, amber and umber and all the rest.

And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces

and cover the world with imagination.

Robert Fulghum

The Early Blue(Green)Prints

What Will It Be?

The essence of the blue-green that I want to put forth in the book is really about paradise. The story that I wove before was about a moment that took place in a kind of "paradise". And, all the photos that I've been lucky to find in the net are of the beach, whether it was taken professionally (or with a professional camera) or a polaroid (which when kept for a long time fades to either cyan, magenta or yellow, depending on the percentage of color used).

I don't want the book to be a series of just beaches. I want to capture what paradise means. Is it always just about the water? Can it be about an object? A picture? A person?

This is where I am at, and I'm confused. Maybe I should just toss a coin.

Catching the Blues (Blue Greens)

This is one collection of the blue-greens in images I've mined on the net. Unfortunately, and frustratingly enough, there are not a lot of blue-greens around in real life (here in the city) yet. There is cyan, though, but I have been holding out on a combination of blue and green. I see it fleetingly on a scarf, or a shirt, or a bag, or a beauty product, or a salt shaker. They don't evoke the blue-green essence that I want to capture - paradise.

The concepts swimming in my mind for my color book are:

paradise

forgotten paradise

untold paradise

secret paradise

captured paradise

exotica

hidden exotica

secret waters

quench

waters of eden

eden

liquid eden

exotique

secret exotic