What Colors Are Selling This Year?

[jrgpots]

I am gearing up to sell my flutes. My color pallette preferences might be very different than other people's. So, I was wondering if some colors sell better than others. I remember someone said browns don't sell as quickly. What has been your experience? What colors are hot and what colors are not?

 

Jed

[neilestrick]

Completely unpredictable. I'll have 2 shows in a row where green sells well, then when I make a bunch more green pots the blue starts selling better. Make them whatever color you want, just do them well and they'll sell.

[Min]

 

Are there traditional colours Native American flutes are done with or specific coloured woods? Is it verboten to use other colours? Just from a personal preference I liked your earth tone ones that you posted a while back. There is ugly bean pot brown and then there is brown, your tones I thought were really nice. When we lived on Haida Gwaii all the drawings, blankets etc were done with red and black, usually with a white or cream ground, it would have been odd to see Haida art done with other colours. I wouldn't go with what is trendy, I would go with what you think suits them.  (if you really get stuck, make some with a bit of blue, blue sells)

[perkolator]

Glow in the dark/photoluminescent glaze powder and add that into your glaze.

[jrgpots]

Glow in the dark/photoluminescent glaze powder and add that into your glaze.

So where do you get this?

 

Jed

[perkolator]

I've only seen it online, I believe there are several vendors.  

 

Last year someone gave me a dinosaur mug with a temperature-based color-changing decal on it (when you pour hot liquid inside, the dinosaur skin goes transparent and the skeleton is left; as it cools the skin goes back to opaque).  Of course I jumped online to see if I could figure out how to make my own decals that do this...that's when I discovered someone's invented a photoluminescent powder for using in glazes = glow in the dark ceramics!  Google is your friend