Wednesday, 15 December 2010

GD: Dawn after Storm

I have been lucky again to be asked by the lovely German mama to dye another wrap for her. The gradation was to be done on a white Zara and the chosen colours were supposed to be a strong pink and dark grey.
This reminded me of a long-awaited dawn after the night storm on a sea...



Wednesday, 8 December 2010

GD: Dream Coast

Looks like there are a lot of dreams here recently!
But this one is mine, and the lovely lady who wanted a grad chose to have this one done for her after I had sent her some colour combinations projects-I couldn`t be more happy! I`ve got to do my dream grad and now it is going to live with someone who actually likes it!
I hope it will be well loved-after all, Ms M. has been waiting for it for quite a time, bearing patiently with my colour experiments:)



Monday, 6 December 2010

GD: Susana`s Dream

Another Azur has visited my colour conservatory recently-a lady with artistic soul wanted it to become her true soulmate:)
So it has taken a dip (actually, couple dips!) in a purple and red bath.
I mixed various colours to obtain this plum, warm purple and burning reds, but it was all worth it, I dare say!:)
Hopefully Susana will feel it is really HER wrap.




GD: Northsea Impression

I have a very emotional attitude towards this particular wrap.
Over a month ago a sweet mama from Germany asked me to grad dye a wrap for her; she also ordered the naked wrap for it, an Indio Hemp. As an inspiration, I was to use her photograph of a beautiful evening on the North Sea beach.
Eager to create this impression, I ordered the wrap and waited...sigh...
It took a month for it to arrive, after in the end I decided to buy it from the manufacturer directly.
Without going into details about all this unfortunate purchase, here is the Northsea Impression, with smokey (accidental) purplish pink on one end and dusky grey on another.
I hope this wrap will only accumulate good karma for its` owner!



Sunday, 5 December 2010

GD: Cayman Breeze

A lovely mama from New York asked me to dye her Azur.
She wasn`t really sure about the colours, liking greys and greens/blues though. I was happy to realize that her favoured hues were my favoured ones !
So it was decided that one side would be definitely grey. But what about the other...?
At first, I mixed some Teal with Aquamarine, and this was born out of it:



Nice, but not lively enough for us, she said, sending me some pictures for inspiration. She was quite sure which direction she wanted to go then, and this also gave me an idea what might work...
So Azur was given another bath and what was created is here:



Friday, 3 December 2010

Rainbow Celeste:)

Not so much a gradation, but definitely a dye job!
A lovely lady said to me that she didn`t like any subtle tones and colours on her wraps-and that she wanted a rainbow.
A rainbow has 7 colours, so 7 colours it is!



"Stripey" look on request:)

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

GD: yet another Amethite Rosie...

My (and I mean "my" as recently revived by me, but not at all invented!) colour combination for first Amethyst and Hematite Rosalinde has proven so popular that it is living quite a busy life now.
But that`s enough of this self-appreciacion outburst (once in a while it doesn`t do any harm, right?)
I have also been asked to recreate one for a lovely American mama who however wanted the rails darker and colours slightly more intensive, so here is Amethite II: