Favorite Color? (Blog Hop Winners)

COLOR
How can I choose a favorite?
Each day is a different mood
And each hue fills me with deep emotions
But for today - as I get ready to climb up on a ladder and paint our entry-way a deep, heathered teal...

I have to admit that the lovely range of colors between green and blue make me smile.

What is your favorite color... at least for today?

Thank you all for swirling through colors with me this last week.
I have loved being a part of this wonderful group of artists who have inspired me to run outside in this cold, rainy December and take pictures! (though admittedly my photos are a bit dark in this cool, grey light).

Here are the lovely winners* (Drum Roll Please):

Wednesday (December 7): Barb Mahle (Anonymous)
Thursday (December 8): Valerie (Hot Art)
Friday (December 9): Sally Anderson (Wild Sally Road)
Monday (December 12): ChrisD
Tuesday (December 13): Pamela (Bailey in a Box)
Wednesday (December 14): Mari (Mis Amores)

*Please e-mail me with your e-mail address so I can send you the
pdf of DIP INTO COLOR!

Your comments have filled my cup and as a thank you, I am offering a SPECIAL DEAL on my eBook: DIP INTO COLOR through tomorrow (6:00 pct). Take a peek here.


Thank you again - I hope your Holidays are filled with color and warmth and music!
Beverly

p.s. Would you like to learn more about color? Join my mailing list for periodic COLORFUL newsletters from my studio and from the ColorQueen team!

Shades of Green (another Blog Hop day)

All the lovely colors of green..












So much depth, as nature knows - GREEN is a perfect backdrop for all of the other colors.

But equally stunning on it's own.

Nuno Felt

Wander with Flair instructions in Beaded Colorways

Beads on Metal instructions in Beaded Colorways

Celebrating Greens in my latest BAG OF COLOR!

(Color wheels and templates from EYE FOR COLOR)
Learn how to enhance your own lovely palettes with
DIP INTO COLOR and you can win a copy!!

Details on the GIVE AWAY here!

The best part is, you can also head over to these lovely artists and comment on their posts to win GIVE AWAYS from their blogs:

Valerie Hebert @ Val's Art Studio Blog here
Jeannette Cook @ Beady Eyed Women here
Carol Dean Sharp @ Sand Fibers here
Marcia DeCoster @ MadDesigns here
Cynthia Deis @ Shiny Little Things here
Lori Anderson @ Pretty Things here

p.s. There will be a winner for each day I post up through December 14, so comment each day for a chance to win!

p.p.s. The winners will be announced on December 15!

Come play with color!

Beads on Metal, Friday November 5

Saturday - Sunday, November 6-7

Creative Castle Newbury Park, CA

2010 Autumn Festival just around the corner

Come to lovely Whidbey Island for a day (or days!) filled with beautiful beads, fabulous wine and yummy food.

Only 2 spots left in each of the following classes:

Wander with Flair (Thursday, October 7)

Wander through Photos (Friday, October 8)

Beads on Metal (Saturday, October 9)

Read more about the Autumn Festival!

Jewelry Retreat on Whidbey Island

2010 Autumn Festival!

Get your creative juices flowing and join us for a week, or a day, filled with beads, color, wine and food. See below for an overview of the classes to be held. For more detailed information, visit the Autumn Festival 2010 page on my website.

Wander with Color
Monday - Tuesday, October 4-5, 2010

Tour of Whidbey
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Wander with Flair
Thursday, October 6, 2010

Wander through Photos / La Duet
Friday, October 8, 2010

Beads on Metal
Saturday, October 9, 2010

This is a very small, intimate retreat in my island cottage with class size between 6 and 10 students per day. We will be working in my sun room with tons of natural light, views of water, wetlands, numerous birds and sunrises. Each day includes a full day of instruction, lunch, wine hor 'doeuvres and dinner, interspersed with walks on the beach, a visit to the galleries at Greenbank Farm and plenty of colorful inspiration!

Registration is now open for those wishing to attend the entire week long retreat. (this is so that those wishing to attend the entire week are not closed out of a class in the middle!)


Registration will open at 12:00 noon (PST) on June 21st, 2010
for those wishing to attend individual classes, rather than the entire week.

I hope you can join us!

Beaded Colorways is in print!!!

Advanced copies of my new book have arrived at North Light Books!!

Click here to pre-order a signed copy, receive a tube from my Seed Bead Medley, and be entered to win a basket of beads and fibers worth over $400! (details here)!

Beaded Colorways: Freeform Beadweaving Projects and Palettes details my journey from inspiration, to color mixing to freeform expression in beads.

In the first part of the book, I share insights and techniques in working with color to help you gain color confidence. There is even a package at the back with 2 color wheels and 6 templates to help you enhance your color palettes! Follow along with me as I go from inspiration to color wheel relationship to creating bead soups with depth and movement.

The 2nd part of the book launches into freeform beadweaving, with over 20 step-by-step projects sectioned into techniques that build on each other. By the end I hope you will feel like throwing out all of the rules and designing your own freeform works of art!

(the pages shown are pre-print images)