The Ups and Downs of Summer

LDeVries summer domeIn the northern hemisphere we are in the midst of summer, but Mother Nature is showing her many sides from hot and still to muggy and stormy, from tornadoes to floods to hurricanes. Down in the southern hemisphere, summer days are a distant memory, but nonetheless, summery colors are making a surge on the pages I’ve been visiting.

Lillian de Vries created this pendant with its interesting visual and tactile texture as inspiration for a summer challenge on Craftliners.com, a blog for the European wholesale company Craftlines, for which Lillian is a designer. The colors are mostly warm but delicate with a scattering of dark speckles falling out of a cooling ceiling of blue. It strikes me as a visual interpretation of a summer memory with its up and down days scattered through the memories of hot afternoons and those thankfully cool mornings.

Lillian plays with all kinds of texture, both visual and tactile, as well as stopping to create miniature and faux foods here and there. If you’re have a gratefully cool morning hiding from the heat, or are down under dreaming of warmer days, make a temperature appropriate beverage and escape into the creative wanderings on her blog and Craftliner’s pages.

 

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2 Comments

  1. Debbie Goodrow on July 20, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    Oh, I like this! I never would have thought the purple/blue that shows on the edges of the stacks would look right with those warm oranges and such… but it’s just perfect. Well done!



  2. Angela on July 22, 2015 at 1:30 pm

    This is really gorgeous! Love the colours and the structure… just perfect!!



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