I’m always struggling to come up with good color themes. I was reading the Xplane blog tonight and came across this interesting technique: use the mosaic filter in Photoshop to blow up the pixels in photographs and show the basic colors. You can then use the palettes for your work. I did it on a couple of vacation shots, and here are the results.
Check out Adobe’s Kuler for a much easier way to build beautiful color themes.
We’re back from the beach. One more week in Cleveland, then it’s off to Texas.
I used to be a snob about the Harry Potter books. Meg devours them. She talked me into reading the first two, but I got sick of #3 after 90 pages of [in bumbling British accent] “Harry remembered his first year at Hogwarts when the blah blah blah blah blah…” and gave up on the series. “I’ll go see the movies,” I said.
Loved the Azkaban movie, thought Goblet was good, and Phoenix even better. (I still think a perfect Harry Potter movie would be directed by John Hughes, and it’d just be two hours of Harry, Hermione, Ron and the gang stuck in detention and talking about sex.
Ron: She’s a tease.
Hermione: I’m sure. Why don’t you just forget it.
Ron: Oh, you’re a tease and you know it. All girls are teases.
Harry: She’s only a tease if what she does gets you hot.
Hermione: I don’t do anything.
Luna: That’s why you’re a tease.
Ha! Anyways, I finally pulled the corncob out of my ass and read book #6 this week. And I loved it. I let go of my snobbery and loved it. Can’t wait to read #7 this weekend.
For other great posts on Harry and the gang, check out Maureen’s thoughts about it being a post 9-11 fairy tale, and Eddie Campbell’s thoughts and links.
Oh, and if you care what Michiko thinks…
Has anyone read Cathy Malkasian’s Percy Gloom? New York Magazine ran an excerpt, and I am intrigued:
Also, Chris Oliveros at D+Q posted another page of Lynda Barry’s upcoming “What It Is”:
Beautiful stuff!
Just in case anyone else is interested in my other favorite female cartoonists: Renee French, Julie Doucet, Hope Larson, Alison Bechdel, Roz Chast, Lilli Carré, and Jessica Abel. I probably left a ton out, but those are the ones I can think of.
Who are your favorites?
Terrible cleanup of a digital photo. I’m sunburnt and full of soft shell crab and beer. What do you expect?
I also want to note that this article was a review of Paula Abdul’s new reality show, “Hey, Paula.” Just throwing that out there.
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