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d’Holbachie’s Cosmos

Japanese artist d’Holbachie Yoko creates some outstanding candy-colored fantasy illustrations that make you just want to smile. Yoko’s colorful visual universe started in graphic design, while later she became a freelance illustrator creating the most outlandish, whimsical, cute, bold, psychedelic, and most colorfully enriched creatures. d’Holbachie is a fine example of someone who can use color to its maximum capacity, without overworking the digital canvas, or killing the visual experience in any way. If your a color lover, like me; you’ll be inspired and entranced by her multi-pallet experience.

Currently, Yoko works on a multitude of projects as 3-D CG illustrator for video game design and development, advertisements, books and a whole host of magazines. Oddly enough, I can’t seem to find much reference to interviews with d’holbachie, so if anyone out there knows of any drop me a line and i’ll add the link here. Don’t forget to check her “cosmos” site, and of course: Pekapoo Pecanpie - this is lovely whimsical art work. Without further ado, take a journey into Yoko’s colorful universe; be inspired with a smile. more…

Kim Anderson captures children on film as no one else can

European photographer Kim Anderson captures children on film as no one else can. While attaining success in the European marketplace as a talented photographer, Anderson also turned his lens to capturing his young daughter Nicola at play with her friends. The universal innocence and captivating antics of children entranced him. The resulting photographs evoke soul filled feelings of happiness, wonder, innocence and tenderness and above all else, nostalgia.

He then decided to specialize in photographing children. His pictures are described as “black and white film touched with subtle bursts of color that heighten the sense of childhoods gone by.” This technique Anderson uses is very popular photo tinting technique that is widely used by professional photographers. Though it may sound complicated, it’s much easier than you imagine. All it takes is a color image, your favorite image editing software (eg. photoshop) and 8 simple steps. Here’s a good tutorial to give your image those subtle splashes of color.

In the last 10 years Andersons worked exclusively for Verkerke Publishing of Holland, creating popular posters, cards and more. Let us take a look at [60] more of Kim’s romantic photographs that have won legions of fans worldwide, after the jump.

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Colors found in nature are often less saturated and more pleasing to the eye than their artificial counterparts. As a result, they allow users to focus on interactions, and not be distracted by overly bright hues. One particular site to find amazing colors in nature, by using nature to build the perfect color palette is COLOURlovers - a community website based on the world of color. Recently they listed some gorgeous butterfly color palettes, featuring the color combinations of 18 different butterflies. Any of these color combinations could be used for interior decor or a website. Here’s 2 sample butterfly palettes, be sure to check out the rest.

• 18 Beautiful Butterflies & Their Color Palettes

Cosmic Latte is the color of the universe, according to a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University. In 2001, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in “The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: constraints on cosmic star-formation history from the cosmic spectrum”, published in 2002. In this paper, they reported that their survey of the color of all light in the universe added up to a slightly beige white. The survey included more than 200,000 galaxies, and measured the spectral range of the light from a large volume of the universe. The hexadecimal RGB value for Cosmic Latte is #FFF8E7.

Read more about these findings here