Colour of Music

George Benson is just finishing an exhibit as part of the West Midlands Open 2010 at the Birmingham Art Gallery & Museum.  The series shown was called Colour of Music. The photographs in the series feature collections of records arranged by colour instead of genre. The effect is quite beautiful. In the words of the photographic artist:

"The photographs create a rhythm of colour, light and shade that resonates with its musical content."

Grant Hamilton Polaroids

About once a month I come up with some great reason I should buy a Polaroid camera. This month, I found Polaroid inspiration in the photography of Grant Hamilton. He uses Polaroids to capture colourful geometric patterns. His collection, Geometries, has been building for 3 years, and it is stunning.

Hue Test

How is your sense of hue? Test your hue definition skills with this online version of the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Test. Rearrange the colors in a progressive gradient to test your ability to see small variations in color. If you want an accurate measure of your color definition skills, be sure to take the authentic physical test, this online one is just for fun.

Color of the Internet

Antrepo4.com tried to answer the (hardly age old) question of what is the color of the internet? Although this problem could be approached in many ways, they chose to look at it from the scaled perspective of the top ranked sites. They created 4 posters showing the colors for the top sites in the categories of Global, Design, Games and Blogs. Then surfacing the most dominant color in any category. No surprise that the Global website color was blue (safe, predictable and unoffensive - yawn). Visit their website to see the full range of colors and order one of the beautiful color posters. I'd love to see this done over time.

See Saw Series

Artist L Filipe dos Santos has a nice sketchbook series called See Saw. They start with colorful gouache blotches and are transformed into quirky, story filled drawings.

There is something really nice about allowing yourself to be inspired by color and shape. (Found through Sub-Studio).