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Indigo colour palette recipes

31 Fri Jul 2015

Posted by fulgorine in 2015 Polymer Clay Challenge, Tips

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2015PCchallenge, colour mixing, colour palette, fimo professional, Indigo, polymer clay

I’m a little bit late posting my colour recipes for the next step in my 2015 Spectrum Year (if you don’t mind, just hop in your time machine and read this last Tuesday). We went away for the weekend and all of a sudden it was time for indigo! I’m beginning to suspect that I could spend a whole year on each palette :o.

These recipes are for Fimo Professional, and the numbers represent percentages. I wrote a blog explaining how I use them for mixing colours.

markethues4Indigo palette swatches

Mid Blue Grey

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

Dark Blue

  • 30 true magenta
  • 70 true blue

Indigo

  • 59.5 true magenta
  • 39.5 true blue
  • 1 black

Chocolate

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

Light Grey

  • 95 white
  • 1.5 true magenta
  • 3.5 true blue

The colours don’t adhere very strictly to the inspiration palette because I wanted the schemes to play nicely together. I decided to increase the differences between the indigo and the purple palettes so the purples are more blue. I also desaturated the green to a beige colour rather than introduce another green (the ones in the green palette were too bright for the other colours).

Yum, those hints of purple are starting to make me drool :).

Fimo Professional

16 Sat Aug 2014

Posted by fulgorine in My work

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beads, colour, Fimo, fimo professional, polymer clay, spectrum, True Colours

A little while ago I tried the new Fimo Professional clay. I got the True Colours pack which included a great colour mixing chart which I imagine is going to end up dog-eared with use.

Spectrum beads by Cate van Alphen

Wow! The colours are fantastic!

The clay was wonderfully easy to condition, although I did wonder if it would be a bit mushy for cane work. We were enjoying some amazingly* warm weather at the time. Or perhaps it was because the clay was fresher? Either way it didn’t particularly matter for these beads as I was going for a blended tie-dye effect.  And I loved the colours so much I decided I didn’t really care.

I didn’t manage to figure out the reusable packaging and ended up with the same torn, flappy mess as before. However I have since found a video which should help 😉

Spectrum beads by Cate van Alphen

Did I mention I really loved the colours?


* This is English summer after all.

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