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Sunday, March 21, 2010





COLOR!!!
I was recently assigned a project in which I had to take what I have learned about the principles of design in my apparel product design class and put it to good use. The assignment was to take the image of something non-fashion/apparel and match it with something that's fashion/apparel. I was assigned to work on color; one of the principles of design. I had absolutely no idea where I was going to go with this but by the grace of Google, I found everything I needed! I decided to go with blue and green as my primary colors. I attempted at making the presentation as visually appealing as a first time Photoshop user could! So here it is; I hope you enjoy!







This is a snake most commonly known as Gumprecht's green pit viper from the Southeast Asian region of Greater Mekong. This viper is carrying a fabulous green snakeskin Prada bag!

http://i39.tinypic.com/kb63vq.jpg

http://www.handbagcom.com/images/Prada%20snakeskin%20leather%20handbag%20green.JPG





Here, we have an image of a pair of Fila sneakers and as soon as I saw these shoes, I thought.... cotton candy!

http://graser10.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/blue-cotton-candy.jpg

http://www.widefashion.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mackdaddy-fila-mack-squad-shoes-615x409.jpg






This image is a picture of a young girl dressed in a masquerade costume as one of the"Birds of Paradise" in the St. Thomas 2006 Carnival. If you look closely you can see that I have placed the image of a blue bird on her left "wing."

http://clemag.com/Mountain%20Blue%20Bird%2052054.jpeg

http://www.deislandmasqueraders.com/files/BlueBird.JPG






I figured I could throw some doggy fashion in mix. As you can see here, I took the image of green apples and contrasted them with the image of a dog named Angel who is wearing a green apple doggy dress.

http://customeru.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/2-green-apples.jpg

http://www.fufufashions.com/images/green_apples_and_blossoms_dress_angel.jpg





In this image, we have a young lady in an ice blue bridesmaid dress and oh so cleverly placed an ice blue martini in her hand!


http://www.girlsofelegance.co.uk/acatalog/Ice-Blue-Evening-Lge.jpg

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2732500/2/istockphoto_2732500-cocktails-on-white-blue-martini.jpg














I decided to put a tie dye t-shirt and fireworks together in this image.


http://www.rossendale.gov.uk/tourism/images/Blue%20and%20Green%20fireworks.jpg

http://www.sunshinejoy.com/images/WholesaleTieDye/tie-dye_t-shirts_26.jpg













In this picture, I pieced together the image of a prom dress and the image of a coffee cup. I put these two together obviously because of the color but also because the design on the cup is similar to the flower seen on the dress.

http://rlv.zcache.com/groovy_lime_green_and_turquoise_mug-p1682569303056405992l99x_400.jpg

http://dressanddresses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/c/9/c9512_turqlime_dress_3.jpg











If I didn't say so, the changes here would nearly go unnoticed. I found this picture of a bouquet of flowers in my chosen colors and in the same search I found an image of a ring with the same colors that can be seen sitting on the same stand as the flowers.

http://www.thefairtradestore.co.uk/images/uploads/shj/SHJ031.jpg

http://www.academy-florists.com/images=/shop/thumbnails%5Cblue_roses_green_roses_with_green_Kiwi_poms.jpg





Sorry my photo shop skills aren't very good but u can get the idea here. I integrated a photo of a brunette in a lime green dress and a lime green vase with some type of brown twigs.

http://static.cache.com/cache/images/products/large2/05044A70232930.jpg

http://www.rikkafloral.com/images/rotate/40.jpg













As you can see, I have taken the image of a peacock inspired dress and layered it on top of an image of an peacock.

http://espimages.biz/2240/I/127/77/scaleD1116Back.jpg

http://www.hiren.info/desktop-wallpapers/animals-birds-pictures/true-colors_peacock








This project was very interesting for me because I never paid too much attention to how animals, food, home decoration etc. can be so similar to the clothing we wear. I enjoyed searching for the pictures I have used and using photo shop to make two separate images one. Thanks for checking out my blog. Smooches!