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.
I will be teaching “Textile Inspirations in Polymer Clay- Stripe Blends Gone Wild” this summer - Saturday August 22nd and Sunday 23rd- at the
Here is a fun on line color scheme generator you may want to try at
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
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- 
Step by Step Beads from Interweave Press is sponsoring its first
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-
There is still room in this weekend’s class in Annadale, Virginia -
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!
…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?