Some Etsy Greens

Green is the intermediary between yellow and blue. Green is one of the secondary colours, it is produced by mixing two primaries - blue and yellow. Mixing blue and yellow to make your green can be a precarious balancing act, and most mixes lean toward one or the other of the primaries. . . and the character of your green will change dramatically if it contains more yellow or more blue.

Do your tastes run to the spring grown lime/yellow greens, or more toward the watery teal or turquoise/blue greens?

Blue Seedlings IV by Erica Vess of Bees Knees Studio is a beautiful illustration of using a yellow/green hue. She has paired it with a soft blue, that leans just ever so slightly toward a teal (and contains a touch of yellow). Erica has some beautiful modern work in her Etsy shop, and there is lots more green to be seen.

Sea Sisters by Emily Balivet at Mythological Goddess Art is a gorgeous blend of limes and olives and golds. The greens in this piece all speak more of yellow than blue, and create a moody, mysterious piece. Emily's work is reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites with a modern twist - her use of pattern and texture is truly lovely.

Curly Vines 3x5 Notepad Holder from Stephanie at Beetlelady Books has some wonderful journals and other paper product designs. I loved this piece in particular for the way she used her colours. The paper cover with the lime and brown and the red berries, with the red echoed in the solid spine colour, and then topped with the elastic closure with a green/blue bead on it. The green/blue bead somehow speaks to all the colours in the piece, and sets up a little colour surprise.

Let Yourself Bloom by David of David V. Moore on Etsy is a glorious grouping of greens (now that's an alliteration....). Olive, lime grass, forest, dare I say chartreuse? all of these beautiful hues make an appearance in a piece that feels more about the hues than the subject, and yet, the whole thing works so beautifully. Make a visit to his etsy shop or his blog and see the variety of his work.

Landslide from Auburn Crimson Studio is a study in green/blue, mint and silver. The aventurine stones go from a deep carribean green/blue to a soft and feather like silvery-green. She's combined the stones with a tangle of silver chains that makes the whole piece feel like something made especially for a mermaid. Beautiful and dreamy greens.

Watching the World Outside from Annie at Curbside Treasure is a green study. The contemplative side of green is highlighted with some accents of a bright new spring green. I love the movement of this piece, the way the variant greens move your eye around the piece.

There are so many faces of green: fruitfulness, contentment, hope, tranquility, life, and faith. Green is the colour representative of the plant world: the mysteries of our green plant friends, the relationship between light and water that creates all the green growing around us. Verdant, flowing, bejewelled: I find green one of the most magical colours.

Thanks again to all the Etsy artists who allowed me to use their work to talk a little more about green.