This brilliant photo titled Chandelier by the Li Family became my source of palette inspiration this week. I do love creating palettes from photos and there is a little method to madness – or should I say madness to my method. I squint and try to pick the prevalent colours – those that seem to take up most of the image’s real estate. This is actually easier than you think and made even easier with ColourLovers Photocopa tool. As nice as it makes the task it is sometimes easy to get distracted by what the tool selects so my second method is mood, a little harder to define. I select photos by how they make me feel or if I have some kind of reaction to them and then I select the colours based on that feeling. Do you want to make a guess how I was feeling with this image and subsequent palette?
My patterns this week had me exploring the shapes in chandeliers. With the top one, called Luminosity, I set about to create the curves and perhaps infer the shape of a chandelier. I’m quite fond of the final result and template I created (called Chandelier) has been used quite a lot by other Colour Lovers with such a great range of colour choices. The bottom one, called Watch It Burn, has been a thorn in my side today. This was the 4th attempt at this pattern and what I imagined and what in actuality appeared were very discordant. I’m still not sure how I feel about it but I can’t just show the successes right?
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