Sophisticated Teal

My proprietary polymer over wood with pigments, sterling, and gemstones.

 Teal is my second-best selling color for jewelry right after purple. I’ve always loved teal and frequently wore it during the 1980s when the jewel-tone palette was so important. Maybe that’s why teal sells so well. Most of my clients are about my age and probably remember the “glory days” of power dressing, big hair, big earrings, and Doc Martens.

My proprietary polymer over wood with pigments, sterling, and gemstones.

Teal is a sophisticated color. It somehow mitigated the otherwise garish excess of the 1980s. It re-emerged in 2015 as one of the trending wall colors. In 2016, it became an important fashion color once again. A spring 2016 trend combined teal with spruce. Gucci paired teal and tangerine later that fall.

My proprietary polymer over wood with pigments, sterling, and gemstones.

Teal can be combined with almost any color. Maybe that’s why it is my second-best selling color. I used to make a lot of jewelry with teal. The series of triangles shown on this page all managed to get adorned with teal. These pieces were made before I started working with glass and lime green infiltrated my work. Despite teal’s aesthetic and lucrative appeal, I stopped using it for a while. I think it’s time to add it back into rotation.

My proprietary polymer over wood with pigments, sterling, and gemstones.

I was playing with some watercolors and decided to do a color wheel with teal in the center. I guess I won’t be combining teal with yellow any time soon. I did mix up a lovely shade of resplendent red-violet… or is that violet-red. Ah, cherished crayon colors.

Winsor & Newton professional watercolors.

I’m always happy to see teal resurface as a trending color. As a sci-fi fan, I’d also be happy to see Teal’c; but, that’s indeed another story.

My proprietary polymer over wood with pigments, sterling, and gemstones.