favorite Bead Color combo's

I really like the bright pinks, greens etc but when I have gone to the black and whites I have been quite surprised - I like them too... I didn't think I would.

Mavis

My favorite color combinations (today) are colbalt & lime, dark pink & lime, pink & orange I prefer to have at least one of the colors transparent. Sometimes a nicely etched bead makes me go "ooooohhhh"

Rainbow....

Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Oooooh - that's tough. I love purple and black mixed with any neutral color. I like teal and purple, black and green, purple and green.......I like purple a LOT. LOL

Clear bright colors!. Boro is facinating, but my preference in glass is color and light. My favorite colors to feel around me are blues and greens in the aqua ranges. Not cobalt or christmas green but emerald, aquamarine, clear turquoise, lime. And I especially love them in combination.

I especially like analagous colors. That blue green range. Also the colors in the old fashioned Portugal Rose. It starts with a pale lemon yellow, warming to a salmon color in the petals and then blushing to a red on the ends of the petals. And I love the boro that seems red on the inside and magenta on the outside, and gives an impression of a purple color, a ghost of bluer purple.

Then there's silvered ivory with copper green and/or turquoise. And red and black.

And a particular favourite is pink with green. Specifically a warm pink without blue. Not a muddy purpled mauve-like pink. Not a blued hot pink. The sweet pink of a blushing Cecile Bruener rose, or that ald fashioned Double Bubble gum. And a green in the lime to olive range.

Llike several others, I find that white brings my eye to a stop. As if my eye were swimming in all that color and all of a sudden thuds up against a solid rock of white. I consistantly find that if I give white a chance and buy beads with white, I regret it.

I was going to say that I don't see white in nature, and then I glanced out the window to see a snow colored world. But even snow isn't usually experienced as white. Eg, the military never uses white as camoflage for snow.

So I don't do black and white. But then I also don't do brown and russets, or tan and it's many elegant combinations.

Personally, I think an artist should work with the colors s/he finds most natural, and that those colors will work and combine most succesfully. By doing what you like the most, you'll be doing what works best for you, and the people who like your work and colors will do good by you. Have the right fit.

Tina

Dark aqua and silvered ivory wins it for me! No matter how much I like other combos, that's the one that invariably makes me go "ooooh!"

-Kalera

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