Samba Nostalgique by LeCygne

Poser • Pin-ups • posted on Jun 10, 2007

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Description

Carmen Miranda not only inspired the Chiquita Banana trademark, she was also the inpiration for this graphic. Her outfit mimics the colors of one of the species of Brazilian macaws (which is the reason why I perched on on the hand of the "sambista.") This graphic allowed to me to make use of those chained beads which I created during the later part of 1990 using CorelDraw's PhotoPaint IV. They have remained dormant until now. :) Poser 7 - V4 Adobe Photoshop CS2 Corel Painter X Corel Paint Shop Pro PHOTO XI Wacom Intuous3 Pen Tablet using the Grip & Art Pens

Comments (16)

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aliwonder

1:10AM | Sun, 10 June 2007

Such beautiful colors, and I love those beads

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yakchat

1:13AM | Sun, 10 June 2007

Beautiful vibrant colors and character....very happy scene...love it..

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anitalee

2:12AM | Sun, 10 June 2007

Great work

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missgrin

5:08AM | Sun, 10 June 2007

Fantastic work and colors...

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PapaSkip

5:29AM | Sun, 10 June 2007

Beautiful work!

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Toribev

8:15AM | Sun, 10 June 2007

Wonderful! Such spirit, life and fun. Beautiful work and I love the beads.

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sapat

11:28AM | Sun, 10 June 2007

Wow, what vibrant and intense color! Fabulous image and the beads have stayed dormant much too long!! They are fantastic!

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delbeke

1:36PM | Sun, 10 June 2007

Ah you captured Ms Miranda's essence and spirit beautifully! She was quite the lady in her day, one of my favorites! Excellent work

Pascaline75116

2:01PM | Sun, 10 June 2007

I love it!!! However, I would have liked to have the whole fur but, anyway, I love it.

WhopperNnoonWalker-

4:37PM | Sun, 10 June 2007

wooooooooooooooooooow this is cool... totally awesum.....fantastic color and fab. postwork. Huggs :O)

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originalkitten

4:06AM | Mon, 11 June 2007

Wow such awesome colours....superb!

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JosephineAu

6:05AM | Mon, 11 June 2007

I love this. It is so bright and full of energy. Don't stay away too long Clemente!

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priss117

10:37AM | Mon, 11 June 2007

Excellent render!!!

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LeCygne

10:43AM | Mon, 11 June 2007

Hi everyone! Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving your comments. I do appreciate it very much. The beads... Zuze, aliwonder, Toribev... I made those beads in CorelDraw's PhotoPaint 4. I zoomed in to a rediculous size (the max), and them colored each of the pixels using light gray and black. Then I used three shades of the bead color to give it highlight and shadow. I did that for each one of the colors (not shown are magenta and purple), replacing the gray with the desired color. The eye pin findings (the wire thingy going through the bead) I made using two tones of yellow. Lighter yellow for the highlight side and darker yellow for the opposite side...except in the section where the finding goes through the glass bead. Here the finding color changes to match the glass color. For example, in a red bead, you see the finding through the glass as pink. Since this was at a pixel level, making the round top of the eye pin takes only a few colored pixels. These bead strands were originally saved in .gif format. I never got the chance to really use them. Poser now gave me the opportunity to do so. Zuze, most likely they will go into hibernation again. :) Jo, thank you. The end of June is usually brutal for me. On July 6th, my wife and I are flying down to South Beach (Florida) for two weeks. After that, I shall be free to play again. :) I am taking my laptop with me (Isn't that sick? LOL), so I might get to fire up Poser there as well. :P Thank you again. Thank you Tina. Huggs back. :) You know, I feel like I am cheating when I add the postwork. ~grin~ I wish that I could do everything in Poser and not add other media. But the other media is what I know. :( I tell you, I would never be able to do what you do... even if I were to actually totally learn Poser. I find Poser to be a difficult program to master. I get confused just reading the books about it. Yikes! :) delbeke, I agree with you. She was quite a personality. Before trying to mimic Carmen Miranda in Poser, I did some research online about the lady. I learned some fascinating facts about her life and career. Clemente

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