Amanda Hawkins

Velleity Pie

Try not to be TOO jealous, but I own the two collages above… along with 3 others. It’s true! I met Velleity Pie (J. Martinson) back in 2005 on livejournal and was lucky enough to do an art swap with her! Check out her Journal Set on flickr, she’s absolutely amazing.

Links: Candy Eye Factory, Flickr & Livejournal

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Artist Color Themes

THUMBNAILS +

A while back I put together a drawing set organized by date on flickr. While looking at the thumbnails I noticed blocks of color forming that corresponded with different periods of time.

www.flickr.com/photos/yourflickrname/archives/date-posted/
Plug your name into the above link and you’ll see a thumbnail view of all of your photos by year. If you have a lot of artwork posted you’ll probably see it too.

COLOR =

I was thinking about that a couple of days ago when I posted work by Hollis Brown Thornton and mentioned his wonderful use of color.

I’ve used Adobe Kuler before to pull in photos and grab colors from them, but had never done it with a large sampling of work. Using screenshots of thumbnails I was able to get a sense of an artists’ overall color theme. Of course it’s not exact because I’m pulling colors based on what sticks out to me, the results would be different for everyone.

There are a few below and I’ve done about 10 more that I’ll be posting over the next week!
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Hollis Brown Thornton

Hollis Brown Thornton is one of my favorite artists at the moment, has been for the past year or more. There’s something about his color palettes that really amazes me. Go look for yourself.

Visit HBT’s website or flickr to see more work.

Florian Afflerbach

Marktplatz by Florian Afflerbach (flickr) (http://www.flaf.de/)

Charlie Roberts

Wow. Just saw this on booooooom and thought it was pretty darn amazing. I wish I had the patience to do still lifes.

Check out more of Charlie Roberts work here.

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You were everything.

My first attempt at stop-motion animation, made Feb. 25, 2007 – music by Love Morris (that’s me!)

Shop Update: Sometimes I do…

I’m incredibly inspired by Jessica and her stained embroidery hoops. The light cheap wood color just wasn’t cutting it and this has opened me up to this whole new color palette while embroidering, I love it! I also picked up some vintage metal hoops that I’m currently working with too!

These two pieces are for sale on etsy!