Inspired by Fashion (or lack thereof)
Posted by Sarah at February 24, 2010 3:00 AM 
Categories: Inspiration,Beads
Tags: beads inspiration bullseye twitter color
Categories: Inspiration,Beads
Tags: beads inspiration bullseye twitter color
These past few days, I've been keeping my eyes open for inspiring and colorful links and things to post on my TheColorista page. And I figured, if I'm going to be looking for potential inspiration for my followers, why not use some of it myself? We could all use some inspiration from time to time, right?
Here is Loud, a set that was inspired by this fantastic photo I stumbled across on Flickr. Purple, fuchsia, olive, magenta... yum. I've been playing around with some Bullseye odd lots lately, so I happened to have just the right colors sitting there on my table.
Okay, fine, I happen to have just about every color in the world sitting there on my table. I know. I need to clean and organize my workspace. I KNOW. I just really don't want to.
Anyway, I love how these particular colors look together.
This next set is called Project Runaway, because it was inspired by one of the outfits on the last episode of Project Runway - the one the judges absolutely hated. Okay, the style is kind of horrendous, but it kind of pissed me off when they were going on and on about how terrible the color combination was, because I thought it was kind of awesome. Besides, the fact that one of them said "I don't think blue and orange are complementary colors" made me lose a lot of faith in the show.
Anyway, on the most part, they seem to be allergic to color over there. It's like the winning designs are almost always black, grey or some other drab and boring color. I don't get it. They walk into the fabric store and everything looks so beautiful and colorful in there, and then all anyone can come up with is grey. Maybe this is how the fashion world is in general? Don't ask me; my fashion sense is limited to my jeans, hoodies, sneakers and crocs and I am perfectly happy with that.
And now I look down and realize that the hoodie I am wearing at the moment is actually grey. It is cool though. Sigh.
This final set, Spring Accents, was inspired by nothing in particular, besides some of those pretty colors sitting on my table.
(And the fact that spacers seem to be the only really popular thing on eBay these days?)
(And the fact that spacers seem to be the only really popular thing on eBay these days?)
Sarah, I watched that episode of Project Runway too. And when she said she didn't think orange and blue were complimentary colors, my jaw about hit the floor. I still can't believe she said that. And she's a design expert?
I love blue and orange together and I thought the colors in that outfit were great. The design itself, well... that's another matter... LOL
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Love your lampwork beads, and that my selfportrait photo 'Loud' inspired the selection of colours.
Great blog.
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Ha! I saw that episode of Project Runway as well! Someone needs to give that girl a color wheel for Christmas
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I completely agree on the Project Run(a)way thing. I was like, HELL-o, have any of you ever been introduced to a color wheel, or BASIC color theory, in your LIFETIME, EVER? . . . . .
Or even walked into a PAINT store, and talked to a paint person, even THEY know.
Blue and orange not complementary colors, my ###. Yeah, my jaw about hit the floor, too. The pallette wasn't bad, I might've fiddled with hue, saturation, tints, etc.'s a little here and there, and of course her overall design was the BIG problem but as for color? The judges needed to go to school on that one . . . .
It's kind of like the way Heidi says Hello and Buh Bye, or exaggerrate that for "Buh-Bye". Say THAT to the Judges' credibility!
Sara
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What inspirations you wove here! I love the way you are inspired by a picture or pattern to create your gorgeous beads.
I believe with my whole being that inspiration is everywhere. But there are obviously those that don't see or maybe have no vision. You are a visionary.
I saw that episode. Made me want to scream! I am not a trained artist, but a self-taught jewelry designer and even I knew that was a complementary color scheme. I didn't care for the design, and the little girl did look like she grabbed every piece of clothing on the way out of a burning building, but I did like the color values. I am trying to break my color habits and get into these brights that you are sharing. Wonderful inspirations. Thank you for sharing. Enjoy the day! Erin
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