Red colour palette recipes

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colour mixing, colour recipe, Fimo, polymer clay, red

Here are my colours for the red palette of my Spectrum Year. I had a bit of a struggle adding a sixth colour, but I decided on something eventually.

Here are the recipes using Fimo Professional. The numbers are percentages. I wrote an earlier blog explaining how I measure colours.

Light Grey

• 95 white
• 1.5 true magenta
• 3.5 true blue

Red

• 60 true red
• 40 true magenta

Carmine

• 20 true red
• 79 true magenta
• 1 black

Plum

• 19 true red
• 76 true magenta
• 5 black

Purple

• 50 white
• 40 true magenta
• 10 true blue

Blue Grey

• 65 white
• 10 true magenta
• 23.5 true blue
• 1.5 black

Blue colour palette recipes

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blue, colour mixing, colour palette, colour recipe, Fimo, polymer clay

Today is the start of my blue period 😉 so here are the colour recipes.

Light Grey

• 95 white
• 1.5 true magenta
• 3.5 true blue

Light Blue

• 80 white
• 20 true blue

Blue

• 100 true blue

Purple

• 50 white
• 40 true magenta
• 10 true blue

Yellow

• 100 true yellow

I haven’t quite finished with green yet as I still have some beads to show for this week of the 2015 Polymer Clay Challenge. Also I’m hoping that I will be able to get some of the green components listed in my Etsy shop soon.

Yellow colour palette recipes

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colour mixing, colour recipe, Fimo, polymer clay, yellow, yellow palette

Here are my colour recipes for the yellow colour palette of my Spectrum Challenge. I have used Fimo Professional polymer clay.

Light Yellow

• 99 white
• 1 true yellow

Yellow

• 100 true yellow

Orange

• 95 true yellow
• 5 true red

Chocolate

• 50 white
• 17 true yellow
• 25 true red
• 8 black

Green

• 89 true yellow
• 10 true green
• 1 black

Beige

• 99 white
• 0.45 true yellow *
• 0.05 true green *
• 0.5 black

* (0.5% mix of 90 true yellow 10 true green)

Now I’m off to mix colours 😉

Orange colour palette recipes

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colour mixing, colour recipe, Fimo, orange, polymer clay

I have been mixing colours to use for my Spectrum Year Challenge. It has taken a while because I have been tweaking the colours slightly in the hope that all 7 palettes will play nicely together by the end of the year. If you are related to several… strong personalities… and you’ve organised a family event you know what I mean!

My colours are more saturated than those in the palettes because I find desaturating a colour as difficult as waking a baby. Logically I accept that it may be necessary, but it still feels wrong! (By the way the actual colour chips look a bit different in person to how they appear in the scan above.)

Here are the recipes using Fimo Professional, and percentages for the quantities (click here to see why):

Beige

• 99 white
• 0.45 true yellow *
• 0.05 true green *
• 0.5 black

* (0.5% mix of 90 true yellow 10 true green)

Peach

• 90 white
• 8 true yellow
• 2 true red

Orange

• 95 true yellow
• 5 true red

Red

• 60 true red
• 40 true magenta

Chocolate

• 50 white
• 17 true yellow
• 25 true red
• 8 black

Light Grey

• 95 white
• 1.5 true magenta
• 3.5 true blue