Each week one of our contributors gives you a sneak peek into their studio, creative process or inspirations. We ask a related question of our readers and hope you’ll leave comments! As an incentive, we offer a prize each week to encourage you to use that keyboard and tell us what you think. The following week a winner is chosen at random from all eligible entries. And here are the results from last week!
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I’m back again. Today I’m sharing about color, one of my favorite parts of my job is working with colors, mixing my own colors in clay and paint, creating color palettes for my beads and using color in my jewelry designs. I can’t get enough. In fact my color class that I took in art school was the best money I ever spent!
Here you can see the first step of my creative process is mixing up colors of clay.
The seasons do influence my color choices, along with fashion color trends. I’m feeling the spring blossoms this week.
If you’d like a little trend and color forecasting you can check out the Pinterest boards of Stringing Magazine Submission Guidelines. They have boards of upcoming trends that they will feature in their magazine.
Michele Dell
March 18, 2016 at 3:21 pmLoving bright neon colors right now!
Susan Diethman
March 18, 2016 at 3:42 pmI am working with pastel sea green leather and natural pink and peach freshwater pearls today with antique silver….beachy beachy….considering I am visiting my daughter in Southern Florida
Susan Diethman
March 18, 2016 at 3:44 pmI am working with pastel sea green leather and natural pink and peach freshwater pearls today with antique silver….beachy beachy….considering I am visiting my daughter in Southern Florida
Julie Leake
March 18, 2016 at 4:12 pmOh those peach and yellows of your birdies are scrumptious, so very Spring!!
Page
March 18, 2016 at 4:22 pmHope I'm doing this right. But my favorite combo is a shiny salmon with an indigo blue with an antique white highlight.
coffeelizard
March 18, 2016 at 4:23 pmI love your Floral Fantasy Post on your 2016 Winter Pantone Board on Pinterest. I like seeing these colors year round either as the main color or as the 'pop of color' accents with solid background clothing.
Becki Coffman
Buttercup
March 18, 2016 at 4:49 pmLoving all of your color combo's. Very Spring like colors. Beautiful!!
Buttercup
March 18, 2016 at 4:49 pmLove all of your color combo's. Very spring like. Gorgeous!!
bstrung
March 18, 2016 at 4:55 pmLove your beads! So glad I spotted your FB post link to your website.
SueBeads
March 18, 2016 at 5:04 pmI'm making a lot of beads in transparent wispy spring colors! Love your color combos Heather!
Alice
March 18, 2016 at 5:12 pmI love your wonderful beads. I prefer the bold colors and colors of nature like green, blue and brown.
Meg
March 18, 2016 at 5:29 pmI am perpetually into navy and a bright but olive-y green.
Elizabeth
March 18, 2016 at 6:30 pmRed used to be my favorite color but then turquoise snuck in and grabbed my soul. I usually tend towards blues, greens, coolness. Lately, I've been attracted to red, a cool red, but red nonetheless. Colorplay is always amazing.
Kathy Lindemer
March 18, 2016 at 8:53 pmI had to check out the Bloosmbury Group since I was not familiar with it. I fell in love with the pale muted blues in the pictures. I especially like how they are combined with golden yellows frequently.
sue hammer
March 18, 2016 at 9:15 pmthanks for sharing!!
andrea Porter
March 18, 2016 at 11:22 pmI love color so much it's difficult to to pick a favorite for right now. I really like a combination of pink and green and orange and green. And turquoise. I will always go back to turquoise. ��
Divya N
March 19, 2016 at 4:57 amIn terms of jewelry I am in love with icy blues, frosted silver and white right now. the place where I live is so hot and these colors are really cooling
beadrecipes
March 19, 2016 at 10:17 amI think I'm just a colour junkie! Hmm, my favourites do tend to be purples, blues and greens of all kinds.
Ann Schroeder
March 19, 2016 at 11:35 amThis post is full of the most gorgeous photos. My favorite way to spend a Saturday morning! I love all colors so much, and bright colors make my heart jump the most. But lately, I've really fallen in love with all the pastels. Thanks for the links to all the great Pinterest boards!
Sarajo Wentling
March 19, 2016 at 2:44 pmAfter a long, grey Minnesota winter I'm yearning for BRIGHTS! I'm really digging turquoise mixed with a tangerine yellow/orange. I also always love a deep teal with orange. Yum!
freshbakeddesigns
March 19, 2016 at 4:07 pmWorking on a necklace with tassel of buttercream silk ribbon. Pairing that with some shades of spring green and carved stone beads in neutral colors.
graypeape
March 20, 2016 at 5:18 amI bought a vintage Hawaiian shirt recently with the most beautiful colors, violet, orange, cinnamon brown, emerald, & a deep sapphire blue. they're really inspiring me right now!
BluMoon
March 20, 2016 at 11:57 amLove the colour pallets you have created they are absolutely beautiful!
Jackie
Linda
March 20, 2016 at 6:50 pmCoral and turquoise in beachy themes is making me happy right now.
Klassy Joolz
March 20, 2016 at 9:40 pmLove the Tiger Moth…so beautiful! Great idea! I love purples and greens…
Kristina
March 21, 2016 at 2:41 amLime green and purple are what I'm digging right now.
KimG
March 21, 2016 at 4:49 pmThe spring colors are so beautiful, I saved them as a jpg. Always love your bird beads, Heather.
Karen M
March 21, 2016 at 5:25 pmYou're getting me in the mood for spring!! Love the new colors and as always your work is beautiful.
Janea aka Naya
March 21, 2016 at 11:43 pmMint, Navy & Coral. Loving it with White. But quality Navy beads are not the easiest to fine I've found.