Colorful Butterflies…

Last Saturday at one of my Artful Afternoon workshops in Annadale, Virginia we made butterfly wing canes. Starting with ultramarine, cadmium yellow and fuchsia, the class made round Skinner blend canes from  intermixes of these primaries (yellow-green, blue Green, yellow orange, violet, blue-violet and red orange) – all of these canes were taken to a light that was tinted with one of the component primaries and wrapped with a darkened -with balck-  version of one of the component primaries…

• yellow green to cream yellow/ dark green wrap
• blue green to light blue /teal blue wrap
• yellow orange to cream yellow/ maroon wrap
• violet to light blue/ dark violet wrap
• blue violet to light blue/dark navy wrap
• red orange to cream yellow /dark maroon wrap

I always Love collaborations…pictured here is Katrina Marsh’s lovely barrette made from cane slices from everyone.  Hope you are having a colorful day.

Upcoming Workshop at the Artway …

I will be teaching “Textile Inspirations in Polymer Clay- Stripe Blends Gone Wild” this summer -  Saturday August 22nd and Sunday 23rd- at the Artway  in Damascus, Maryland. To register 800 844 0138

 

 

More detail here

Color Schemer…

Here is a fun on line color scheme generator you may want to try at colorschemedesigner…after you choose your pivot color, there are options to select a- monochromatic,analogous with accent,  triad, tetrad or complimentary color scheme. Additional features include being able to adjust the saturation and contrast within a scheme and then preview the scheme as a web site with either a light or dark background.

This is a fun and easy way to preview possible color schemes for use in your polymer clay work- albeit in a computer monitor- but in a matter of minutes you can explore dozens of color combinations that may work well with your pivot/inspirational color.

Hope You are having a colorful day!

Upcoming Workshop In NYC…

June 6-7, 2009 10am-4pm Synchronicity in Action /Polymer Clay Sampler Necklace for the New York City Polymer Clay Guild in NYC- to register www.nypcg.org

Make a sampler of thirty different polymer clay beads that will be combined into a stunning sampler necklace with a custom covered clasp. Join Lindly Haunani, who has over 18 years of experience teaching polymer clay workshops, for an exciting, fun and fast paced weekend.
 

Colorful Breakfast…

The results of a web contest to design a color scheme inspired by “Good Morning” can be seen here at Zach Dunn’s web design,development and business blog- buildinternet.com It is interesting to see the variety of combinations that the designers submitted.

Here is another option for a “Good Morning” inspiration= a bowl of Fruit Loops. How would you mix the colors of Fruit Loops in polymer clay?  A great starting point would be two custom mixed primaries- red= 1/2 Fuchsia and 1/2 Neon pink, yellow = 1/2 Zinc yellow and 1/2 Neon Yellow - and Cobalt blue.

Colorful Food Stylist…

Currently I am working on the design of a new color workshop that will include five different techniques/approaches towards working with tinted translucent clay with an emphasis on mixing food inspired colors.

 

While my first inclination is to title this  workshop “Fantasy Food Stylist”… as almost daily I find myself styling food- either edible or fantastical polymer clay…

Perhaps “Taming Translucents” would be a better title for the workshop? I received this image of carved watermelons in an email this evening, which was a great reminder to me to re-visit my oriental food carving books.

Have  a grand Spring weekend- style some “food” or  mix some polymer clay colors that have the juicy, delectable, delightful feel of  edible wonder or  experiment with  carving  a  watermelon cane?

ColorWorks Contest…

Step by Step Beads from Interweave Press is sponsoring its first ColorWorks Challenge  and the deadline is May 15th.

 

“The orange-purple-green  triad presents a challenge of bold and striking contrasts. Create a piece of bead jewelry (or a bead in any medium: polymer, beads, glass, etc.) using the triad from the color wheel. Black, white, or clear are welcome, but the predominant colors must be the orange-purple-green triad (any shades of those colors).”

Emotional Color Wheel..

Robert Pulchik was a psychologist that used a color wheel to help categorize intensities of  what he considered to be the eight primary emotions- anger,fear,sadness,disgust,surprise,curiosity, acceptance and joy.

You can read more about this in his book- Emotions and Life or here at Fractal. What is the emotion associated with your favorite color? What is the emotion asscociated with your least favorite color? Would you have assigned each of the emotions another color?

Artful Afterrnoon in Annadale…

There is still room in this weekend’s class in Annadale, Virginia -

Faux Jade Pendant

 

Saturday April 18^th 1-4:30pm

 Learn how to make Lindly’s version of faux jade polymer clay. You will make three different colors of jade that will then be used to fabricate a stacked pyramid pendant and a doughnut pendant. Several options for enhancing and defining the surface finish will be presented along with options for stringing your finished pieces.

Colorful Eggs…

As the software continues to evolve…interactive color “Pickers” and mixing guides are becoming increasingly available for a variety of applications- including Easter Egg dying!

Here is the link to  McCormick”s “Perfect Color Mixing Guide” where you can select a color and find the mixing  recipe for cakes, icings and eggs.

…in addition to the tradition food coloring palette, these dyes are also available as neon colors (purple,green, pink and blue). It is fun to move the slider and what the proportions of each color of the dye change in the recipe. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if someone did this for polymer clay color mixing in each of the different brands?