Color choices...
Robin's blog, Beadlust, has gotten me thinking about my color choices...I'm realizing I use a lot of greens...and then I looked up from the computer out one of my studio windows and saw this....well, duh...looks like I'm echoing my environment! Also, I live here in Oregon because I love greens and blues (and greys too) and that's what we have a lot of, especially here on the coast!
I also realized, after talking to some other local artists, that in the winter...when it can get a bit dreary with many days of rain...we all switch to brighter colors, as if to add some cheer to our lives and studios...
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I was reading your post about looking out at...green...and sitting at my computer looking out my windows at...green. I'm a bit south of you, in the middle of a nat'l forest and some days the air actually looks green. I have come back to beading this year after years away from it and have enjoyed discovering your blog. Donna
Now you've got me thinking about green, and about my bead stash. Years ago when I was in the Czech Republic, I saw an old book of glass samples. It was amazing how many different greens there were, as compared to purples or yellows or even reds and blues. Tonight thinking about my stash, I realize there are twice as many green seed beads as any other color, and the same for accent beads. It's just a more expressive color of glass... more choices. Maybe this is part of the reason... in addition to the green outside your window????
thanks, dmzapp!
hmmmmm....I'm not seeing that in my beads, robin....apparently I buy all the colors but actually use the greens more!
But my fabric stash is another story...there the greens are really predominant...and almost all of the multicolored fabrics have some green in them, even if they're mostly another color...I hadn't noticed that!
Do you find you get stuck in colors? I went on a huge binge of amber and purple. Other times, green or blue is all I want to look at.
I think it's seasonal both in concrete terms and in the sense of emotional seasons.
Such lovely things, BB.
I do, lj...but I also have a general palette I tend to stay in unless I make an effort to break out of it...I've been doing that more often lately...and enjoying it!
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