Category: Things that inspire

Today’s inspiration.

Love colour

Colourlovers is a hoot!

Upload a photo, choose hex colours to create a palette, choose and colour a pattern template with your unique palette, then publish all  – and immediately get an audience viewing your work. All took less than 1/2 hour!

The Colourlovers site has lots of free tools, blogs, groups and communities. It makes seamless connections to other social media. When you set up your own profile and start making colours, palettes and patterns you get immediate feedback from people who view, comment on and use your work.

Here’s my latest palette translated into a paisley pattern. The palette was inspired by the one of the cloud photos on my blog page Things that inspire.

Gericault_sky
Color by COLOURlovers

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Vector Patterns by COLOURlovers

Chris’s world

Detail of Chris Wauchop's Centurion tank
Detail of Chris Wauchop's Centurion tank

My husband, Chris Wauchop, is well-known to the modelling (hobby) world. His particular forte is airbrushing and weathering and his passion is for building WW2 aircraft, but also very competent with armour modelling and science fiction/fantasy figures. His attention to realism and detail are beyond belief. The shovels in this image from the Centurion tank are about 25mm. He constructs and paints the interior cockpits of 1:32/1:48 scale aircraft in full detail – it is almost impossible to see the detail without using a magnifying glass. This is usually many hours of intense work. That’s inspiring!