On Seasonal Color

Do you often find yourself sorting colors in your mind? I do - and it's almost always by season. I have colors in my head that are intrinsicly autumnal, and so forth.



This often helps me when I am picking out colors of glass for making a bead set. I think about what season it is - or what season it will be soon - and certain colors just stand out.

For some strange reason, I am not a Christmas Red and Green kind of gal. Unless the colors are a very specific shade, I kind of don't like red and green together. Give me a velvety deep purple-red and a pine green, and I might be okay with it. But tomato red and kelly green are nauseating.

Right now, I am working with pinks and reds for winter - specifically for Valentine's Day beads. Now, that's pretty self explanatory. But what colors would be good for winter in general?

For me, I like icy blues, minty greens and cold purples for winter. And of course, winter white is always nice.

When the new year comes, I kind of slowly slide over to the hot pinks and reds for February, then the sweet spring-ish greens for March.

Once spring starts to near, I like to work with soft pastels with shiny black as an accent - especially lavender and green. Coral is a fantastic spring color that will hold right into summer.

Of course, in summer the deep aquas, teals and greens are wonderful to play with - makes me think of swimming and the beach. Summer is a great time for anything vivid and cheerful.

By far, my most favorite season for color is autumn. You can see it in my gallery - most of my bead sets are in autumn shades of deep purple, amber, pumpkin, black and green.

Neutrals are also wonderful this time of year because they will last throughout the fall and winter season. I adore Halloween, too - which adds a whole new dimension of color.

What are your fave seasonal colors?