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Red colour palette recipes

16 Mon Nov 2015

Posted by fulgorine in 2015 Polymer Clay Challenge, Tips

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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.

BerryHues

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

scan_red02

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

06 Sat Jun 2015

Posted by fulgorine in 2015 Polymer Clay Challenge, Tips

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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.

GlobalHues_2 scan_blue

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

22 Sun Feb 2015

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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.

Yellow colour palette

Yellow palette swatches

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

04 Sun Jan 2015

Posted by fulgorine in 2015 Polymer Clay Challenge

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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!

Autum View by Design Seeds

Orange palette colour chips

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

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