Prompt 2: Rose Quartz

The feathery brown graphic that, on GRSites.com, was called brown128.jpg is one that I've found elsewhere under other names on old websites containing collections of graphics. I've no idea where it originally came from. Some sites have versions of it in other colours; but these were formed by the application of coloured filters. In this way, for example, one can turn it red, as in the leftmost graphic below. If you look at it carefully, though, you can see that much of the subtlety of shading has been lost. (As in my first post, there's a link on the graphic. Click on it, and you can see how it looks when tiled over the whole page.)




GRSites.com, on the other hand, had a doohickey that rotated colours round the colour wheel. In other words the muted orange (i.e. brown) would be shifted—say to red or blue or green or purple—but any other colours in the graphic would also be shifted by the same amount. If there were several slightly different shades of brown, the result would be several different shades of red (or blue, green, etc.); and each part of the pattern would be bright or muted to the same degree as in the original. The graphic in the middle shows one of the possible reddish-toned variants that could be produced. One thing that is noticeable is that it is a muted shade (as the original graphic, being brown, is muted in colour); another thing to note is that the grey-toned portion of the feathering has not been glazed over with red, but remains grey.

To get pink, of course, a bit more manipulation is needed—to lighten and brighten the pattern as in the final graphic on the right.

Again, one of my projects was to achieve "solid" pink versions in this pattern:



Mostly, though, I've been trying to see what sort of combinations I can come up with. To make things more interesting, I've added some in darker tones, such as rose and carmine.



People have expressed some curiosity about the sort of thing I've done to get the variations. Well, here's one of them. A couple of years ago, it occurred to me to try using filters to blank out one of the colours, e.g. to use a purple filter to remove yellow, or a green filter to remove red. The result was a grey area—and a whole new range of possibilities! One obvious thing to attempt was paling the grey area to white; another was to produce pastels.



I could even make the graphic into a bicolour, for example by applying a yellow filter:



So (given this week's two prompts), let me show you some pink-and-yellow bicolours. These came from a variety of techniques.



I'll let the anthropomorficcers decide if these are Pink & Yellow or Pink/Yellow!



Previous Days:
Prompts #1 and #2 (Amber and Topaz)