Spark and Inspire Question #5: What Color is your Business?

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QUESTION #5

What color is your Business?

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the

world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

-

E.B. White 

I can’t believe I am saying this but the color of my business is pink! I am

not normally into pink and actually I very rarely wear the color. When I

first started my business I gravitated to orange and yellow and all things

funky, all things boho. And then suddenly my life, my heart, my business

took a feminine turn.

I got more heart centered, more soulful. The business became more about

the “why” I do business and why I was just the person to serve those that

connect in my business. So here I am embracing who I am… and embracing

pink.

Kelly Thiel:

I had to think about this one for about 2 seconds. Then I knew. Pale

Yellow. My business is Pale Yellow for several reasons. Right now, I know

that my business is a paler version of what it could be. I want it to be a

bright, blazing, and cheerful yellow, but right now it isn’t. My business is at

a slow simmer and hopefully over the next few years as the kids start

school, I’ll be able to turn up the heat and bring it to a boil. It’s an exciting

thought and one that keeps me awake at night!

Nolwenn Petitbois:

I would say «Teal». Because running Inner Voices feels like being on a

constant wave. Sometimes I crash and burn on the rocks that are put in my

way, sometimes I feel like I am on top of the World and can accomplish

everything my Heart and Soul desire.

I am swimming in a huge ocean of Creative beings and it is not always easy

to find my place, to figure out how to get noticed in all the wonderful art

that is created and shared and sold each day.

Jan Avellana:

Right now, my hand stamped jewelry business is in transition in a big way,

so I’d have to say that dark grey describes my business at the moment.

There are many things I am letting go of, many new things I am venturing

towards, but right now I am in the middle of getting from here to there.

This is the scary moment of letting go, that moment of leaping before the

net appears. All is not lost, since I do believe that the best is yet to be,

that’s why I’ve chosen “grey” and not “black”! There is a quote by Anatole

France and it reads:

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we

leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we

can enter another.”

This is what “grey” speaks to me today...

Sonya McCllough:

The color that describes my business these days is GREY ... a sweet

combination of black & white (which express my view of this world)

Jean Simrose:

I’ve always had an affinity to turquoise. When I was designing my business

cards I decided to use a favorite photograph my husband took of a

dragonfly. To make the picture more dramatic we decided to make a color

negative of it. The red dragonfly turned out turquoise and the green

rosebud turned purple.

Turquoise: represents a higher heart; creative communicators; trusting

intuition and femininity.

Purple: represents higher mind power; good judgment; peace of mind and

inspiration.

I love these two colors together and they seem to fit with my creative

business.

Leanne Wargowsky:

When I first read this question, I thought "easy peesy!" But the more I

looked at the color wheel, I felt drawn to so many of the colors out there.

Trying to narrow an artistic person down to one color is quite a challenge.

The color RED is represented widely in my studio, as bookshelves and

frames and accent pieces here or there. Red gives off a great energy and

inspires me to take chances and be BOLD in my work. However, I must

choose YELLOW as the main color to describe my business . . . Bright and

sunny, and full of creative energy. Yellow is said to stimulate mental

processes and encourage communication. Much of my art has to do with

inspiring and encouraging, and I can't think of a better way to encourage

communication with others.

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a

yellow spot into the sun." -Pablo Picasso

Kelly Warren:

“I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice in the brilliant

ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.” ~ Sir Winston Churchill.

Did you know that Winston Churchill was also an artist? And his quote

sums up my love of color. What color describes my business? Bright, happy

colors! The name of my business I think clearly reflects my outlook on life

and my love of color. When you think of a “happy shack,” what color do

you picture it to be? I certainly don’t think of brown. I think of bright

Caribbean blue, with pink porch ceilings and aqua doors.

Every room inside this little shack is painted a different color, each just as

happy. And in this, my friends, I have truly described for you what my own

home looks like to a T. And that love of color is reflected in my work. My

jewelry designs are filled with brightly colored handmade glass beads and

gemstones, my photography is juicy with saturated color, and my mixed

media work is spilling in color as well. I can’t pick a favorite. I love every

color on God’s beautiful rainbow.

Stephanie Amos:

After putting much thought into this I have concluded

that orange describes KoiStudios. I have three reasons why. One is that

orange is one of my favorite colors. It’s such a cheerful color and makes me

happy. I would hope that anyone that collects my art is happy when they

receive a package from KoiStudios. The second reason is that orange is a

warm and inviting color, one that represents me and my business well. The

last reason reflects the name of my business, KoiStudios. When I think of

koi fish, I immediately think of the orange koi first. So naturally, orange is

the best color that describes my business!

YOUR TURN:

What color is your Business?

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