Direct Link to the Premo
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“I love glow in the dark creations… especially these flower shaped ones!” ~Lupe-M
On Nov 16th, I posted an introductory preview clip for the Pod Bead tutorial.
Today, the full version of this video lesson (Vol-030-3) is available for viewing at the Polymer Clay Members Library. Here is the link:
Unique Pod Beads Made With Slices From Your Favorite Canes
For anyone who is not yet a paid member, if you did not know, the cost works out to only $3.32 per month. This gives you 24/7 access to the full versions of my Friday video tutes. Plus you also receive four A-series color recipe cards. This week’s color is: Smoky Blue (Vol-030-3A) from the Frosty Field Polymer Clay Color Palette.
Cindy, I watch your videos first before anything else when I get on the computer. You are just so super good, and Doug is too. The Lietz team gets the gold medal for a lifetime of kindness. All that information and beauty for just $3.32 a month – 4 tutes and 24 -7 blog full of info and fun. Clean family fun. Uuuuuugggggggs. ~Peggy-B
This was one of the most exciting months to date! (What am I talking about — they’re all exciting!) Every month is filled with great projects and tutorials. This is truly the best value for polymer clay video tutes there is! There’s no other site that comes close to what you offer us. Like I read somewhere when I first joined, the low membership rate we pay is actually “better than free.” We get “more” in every way — quality of the videos and instruction, quantity of the tutorials, color recipes, ideas & inspiration, and help & advice from our Polymer Clay Tutor, as well as other members, whenever we need it! I’m so happy to be a member of this fantastic community, and so very glad to have found you, Cindy Lietz! Thank you so much for everything you do! ~Phaedrakat
If you want to become a paid member, here is the link:
Polymer Clay Video Library
Or if you are brand new to polymer clay, the best place to first learn all of the fundamentals is here: Polymer Clay Beginners Course
To browse other video tutorials that are available for purchase without becoming a subscribing member (in other words… just a one time fee), you can go here: Polymer Clay Video Back Issues
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Open Mic… Please use the comment sections of these Friday posts to discuss polymer clay challenges that you need some help with… success stories about your bead and jewelry projects… requests for upcoming video tutorials. In other words, it’s an open mic :-) .
Listed below are the topics that were discussed in the last Friday’s Open Mic comments:
- Turning ugly ducklings into swans.
- Canes… even for clayers who say they are no good at it.
- Reasons to love polymer clay… no waste.
- Kaleidoscope canes.
- Selling on Etsy and Artfire and other fun places.
- IMPORTANT ALERT: Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow, Sea Green >> These are 3 of the primary colors that are at risk of being discontinued from the Premo Sculpey product line. We all need to work together to save them from extinction. Please add your voice of support to the Virtual Petition on this page in the comment section below. Your support IS needed on this very important issue.
- And more…
If you need to catch up, here is the link to the article where last week’s topics were discussed in detail: Feather Canes
Otherwise, you can use the comment section below to start talking about some new topics and ideas. Happy Friday!!!
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Transferring clip art impages to polymer clay.
Really usable techniques.
Image transfers with less smudging.
eBay to the rescue.
All those postage stamps you collected as a teen.
Holiday catalogs are here.
Post office tips, treasures and ideas.
Love this tute!!! I need some dangle earrings and this would be perfect with the feather cane…..wow!
Have to vacuum first -domestic goddess stuff…..Can’t wait to do this tute. NEED some new earrings (giggle) so here they come ! Cindy has so many ways to use our scraps, right ? No waste -ever. Thanks……….
Cindy, I love this bead technique… After I get back from grocery shopping this afternoon I’m going to be making some Pod Beads. Yipee..!! Thanks for another great tute Cindy!!!
Peace, Love, and Clay,
~Lisa :)
I would like to bring up the topic of Premo eliminating some of its colors – I cannot understand their logic for stopping the production of cobalt blue and zinc yellow. I also love Frost and don’t understand the need to change a fantastic product! I am very upset.
Cindy, please check out Polyform Products’ Facebook page. They’re going to discontinue some Premo colors (incl. zinc yellow + cobalt blue!), and will market some new ones. It sounds as if they’re going “designer” with the colors!
RE: Premo color changes
Hi Cindy. While this is very exciting news, doesn’t it make you want to tear your hair out? I would imagine the transition period between the two clays will be a bit of a nightmare for you and your fabulous recipes. Hmmmm.
Barb
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Polyform Announcement About Color Changes:
Originally Posted on Facebook, November 18, 2010:
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Polyform Products
We are bursting with excitement – new colors with endless possibilities are just around the corner. It’s an unbelievable line-up with colors you requested. Have you ever imagined . . .
• Peacock Pearl –eye-catching in lustrous, confident extravagance
• Magenta Pearl – Glowing romance translated into art
• Sunshine – innocence as sweet as a day running through the sprinkler
• Navy – shades of royalty, commanding an audience
• Pomegranate – juicy, rich and irresistible on the tip of the tongue
• Denim – your favorite pair still fit, go ahead, try them on
• Bronze – statuesque brilliance glimmering in view
• Antique Gold – The classics are hard to ignore
• Bright Green Pearl – dew kissed spring grass glistening in the morning sun
These are only a few of the fabulous line-up of new premo! colors.
Watch for our 2011 New Line of premo! Accents
• Magenta Pearl • Purple Pearl
• Bright Green Pearl • Peacock Pearl
• Translucent Blue • Translucent Red
• Translucent Yellow • Translucent Yellow
• Translucent Green • Blue Glitter
• Red glitter • Frost White Glitter
• 18K Gold • Copper – updated color
• Antique Gold • Bronze
• Blue Granite • White Granite
• Gray Granite • White Translucent – replaces Frost
New 2011 premo! Colors
• Denim • Spanish Olive
• Navy Blue • Blush
• Wasabi • Pomegranate
• Candy Pink • Sunshine
• Rhino Gray
The following colors are discontinued: Red Pearl, Green Pearl, Cobalt Blue, Sea Green, Copper, Zinc Yellow, Frost, Fluorescent Green, Fluorescent Yellow, Fluorescent Red and Glow-In-The-Dark – We’ll have recipes for most on our website.
Here’s the buzz about new Sculpey colors – fresh and trendy, always a crowd pleaser –
New for 2011 Sculpey III colors
• Pewter • Jewelry Gold
• Copper • Suede Brown
• Fuchsia Pearl • Glow-In-The-Dark
• Plum • Deep Red Pearl
• Candy Pink • Sky Blue
• Lemonade
The following colors are discontinued: Lt. Pink Pearl, Vanilla Crème, Pale Pistachio, Sunshine, Pottery, Stonewash, Tomato Red, Sunset, Ivory, Atomic Orange and Lemon. We’ll have recipes for most on our website.
Thank you for posting this here Maria, and others. This is an extremely important issue. BTW, I have even been corresponding with Polyform about it directly, and was planning to bring up the topic today, with all of you guys… so this is perfect timing!
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Here is how I feel about Polyform’s New Colors Announcement (the original Polyform Facebook Announcement page seems to have been removed):
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Although I am SUPER excited about the new color additions, I am also VERY UPSET about three of the discontinued colors. Namely the removal of the Artist Pigment Based colors – Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green.
One of the key reasons I have chosen to work with Premo and introduce it to thousands of my members, is because the color palette is based on the traditional artists color palette. In fact, I have published hundreds of color recipes based on this palette. The removal of three of Primary colors from this palette not only means that many of these color recipes will now be near impossible to mix, but so will a large portion of future colors. In fact I am working on two new palettes right now and this news has me wondering how I’m going to mix the colors I need for it. Can you imagine the outrage if these colors were removed from all oil or acrylic paint palettes? Artists would just flip out!
Polyform has said that they will offer conversion recipes to replace some of the discontinued colors. It may work for some of the recipes, but I have no idea how they are going to do that with the Primaries, since they are base colors from which other colors are made. As well, even if it is possible to create a new mix that looks similar, it definitely won’t mix the same. Therefore, any past recipes containing these colors will become null and void.
As far as the other colors that were discontinued, I am fine with that. They can always be mixed, as long as we still have the FULL SET of Primary colors including Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green. If not… well… those could be lost too.
I completely understand a company’s need to adjust as time goes on. It is important to keep products fresh and current. But removing a few KEY Components to a line like this is just as upsetting as removing a color like Black or White from a line.
So… I am asking for your help to get Polyform to change their mind and not discontinue these vital colors from their clay line. Think of this blog as your virtual petition. I would love to see 1000 comments here from our clay community saying:
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
>>> Will you join me? Please post your comment below…
If you would, please also make an announcement about this comment thread (topic) on your Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, Blogs and wherever else we can work together to draw attention to this important issue. Thanks so much!!!
@Cindy Lietz from Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow, Sea Green:
Please don’t discontinue Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!! These are extremely important to our color recipes.
@Cindy Lietz from Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow, Sea Green:
Boy do I ever agree with you.
Who are they? Deciding making the changes for people who used their clay or just to get the smell of the year without consulting! In hard times it’s time to keep the basics right?
They should offer at least the basic colours scheme.
Maggie Maggio’s book becomes obsolete.What a bummer.
@Cindy Lietz from Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow, Sea Green:
Polyform: PLEASE don’t discontinue these colours!! I rely entirely on mixes of Cobalt Blue/Zinc Yellow/Fuschia for all my signature colours that I use in my work. Without those colours I would have to swap brands in order to find a replacement, which wouldn’t be as good. The colours are what I chose Premo for as my preferred brand of clay. They have to stay!!!
@Cindy Lietz from Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow, Sea Green:
Dear Polyform,
Please support the artists who work with these essential colours and keep sea green, cobalt blue and zinc yellow in production! bad enough we have lost studio sculpey…….
Thanks for listening!
Emma
I can’t believe you would discontinue yellow and blue from your color choices. Those are 2 important PRIMARY colors and will change color palettes of a lot of artists. You need to reconsider, or may lose a loyal customer of this product.
@Cindy Lietz from Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow, Sea Green:
Keep the colors, they’re a necessary part of any sculptors palate!
@Cindy Lietz from Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow, Sea Green:
Crazy move and for goodness sake just for once would you listen to the people who consistently buy the clay.
I’m a small distributor but I’m getting fed up with the constant changes and this one takes the cake!!!
Now I won’t even be able to teach a colour theory class in the clay I distribute… How bad is that
@Cindy Lietz from Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow, Sea Green:
Hello Cindy,
You know I manufacture Bozzi Polymer Clay, here in Brazil.
You tell me if you can not solve this problem. Remember, though far you’re not alone.
Big hug;
Edinho Juliotti
@Edinho Juliotti: It is nice to hear from you, all the way from Brazil. Thank you so much for your concern and support regarding this issue! I’ll email you directly to chat further about taking a look at your clay product.
@Cindy Lietz from Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow, Sea Green: Hey everyone, I am relatively new to polmer clay and one of the many challenges is to learn to get the most from the tools and products that are available. I was overwhelmed with all the different kinds of clays and color offerings, but when I found Maggie Maggio’s book and color tutorial website (and also had the great pleasure to meet her here in Portland, Oregon), some of the anxiety of how to get started in clay was alleviated. Knowing I could take a small number of primary and speciaIlty colors and produce so many beautiful things was a huge inspiration. I was just getting used to mixing my Premo colors when a friend told me to stock up on some of them because they were being discontinued. I couldn’t believe it. Yes, there are other brands of clay, and I do use them, but I was, needless to say, perplexed and upset that a company that has such a formidable presence in the polymer clay industry would make such a marketing blunder.
I’ve logged onto the Sculpey Polyform website and emailed them directly with my concerns. I am writing this reply in June of 2011, and it’s been well over six or seven months since the original announcement pertaining to the discontinued colors. Has anyone heard definitively whether or not the Zinc Yellow, Sea Green and Cobalt Blue will definitely be discontinued. I feel passionately about Glow in the Dark and all the fluorescent colors as well. These colors cannot be replicated and should be considered basic building blocks of the color palette.
Anyway, I’m adding my voice to the cause and I certainly hope we are heard!
They can’t take my favorite colors
Very excited about all the new colours coming out, but very unhappy about potentially losing zinc yellow, sea green and cobalt blue. Hope they reconsider after we all weigh in on the matter.
@Elly Moore:
I mix my own colors a LOT and cobalt blue and zinc yellow are a MUST for this…..sea green is not as important to me….but I cannot see why a company would get rid of the basics….and these ARE…Laurel
I also posted about this on my blog, and also posted on their FB discussion page about how unhappy I am about this. Someone at their company really did not do their homework about those colors.
I’m even miffed about glow-in-the-dark – you CAN’T mix that from anything!! I guess I’ll be going back to FIMO for that color! :(
!!!Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green!!!
By all means the new colors will be welcome but my recipes are doomed if they call for these colors. PLEASE don’t discontinue Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green.
Thank you for re-considering.
I agree, I saw that yesterday and figured I’d have to switch to Kato clay as they have the primary tints to mix your own. I can’t imagine why Polyform would lose the primaries.
Please don’t take away these 3 colors, they are vital to my art!
I also mix a lot of my own colors and I REALLY need these primaries. I’d be willing to pay more per brick for these colors if that’s what polyform needs to do to keep producing them. They are VITAL to the artist’s palette. Off the top of my head I can think of 7-8 different color mixes I use on a regular basis that use these colors and many more I use less frequently.
OUTRAGEOUS !!! What is Polyform thinking ? Not the first time they have screwed up with clay colours such as the now defunct Studio clay.
I guess STAEDTLER FIMO and Kato Polyclay will be laughing all the way to the bank.
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
@Lawrence:
Have they discontinued Studio clay, Lawrence?!
I hadn’t even got round to trying it yet…..
@Caroline:
Yes studio clay will die in december. Some couleurs will be made in premo but not the same texture. I complained and the answer was there was not enough request for it.My foot!
Please don’t discontinue Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green. They are vital to some of my key designs.
Agreed, people have developed color formulas based on these colors, so don’t take them away.
I’m sure change is good for a lot of things. removing Primary Colors does not make any sense. What are they thinking? Please rethink your position and move on to more productive reasoning. I use these colors all the time, so will stock while they are on sale on Michaels.
Polyform, you need to keep the Sea Green, Cobalt Blue and Zinc Yellow in your range because otherwise you cannot offer an artists pallete as it will be incomplete. Us artists need these colours please save them.
!!!Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green!!!
Are they crazy?? We have to change their minds, like, yesterday!! Don’t they realize we artists make are own colors? That is the first rule of color usage. I was always taught to never use the hue straight from the tube or package! That is part of the creative process. And a very important one! If they want to change something, add to the color choices do not delete colors. I hope the their color recipes are accurate. If not, I’m sure their business will suffer.
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
Please explaine how one mixes a primary color? It is by definition a Primary from which others are made, please please revisit your decision and keep these three PRIMARY colors and also the GITD clay as there is no other way to create that. I really don’t want the color formulas that use these colors to become useless. If this decision goes forward, I guess I will also have to decide if I wish to continue with your line of product once again and with all urgency I ask you to reconsider, it is only three colors and a speciality clay.
Thank you.
Ken Hamilton
Cobalt blue is one of my favorite colors. Yellow would be hard to recreate. Hope they reconsider deleting these three colors.
please do not discontinue the color give us the new options but why re-invent the wheel?
I don’t like one bit. I heard about this through one of our guild members. All we can do is let them know how unhappy we are. I am with you, Cindy..thrilled about the new colors but I do use the colors that they are getting rid of and although they have said they would be giving out recipes for those particular colors…who knows when that will be or which ones we will be receiving. I am going to send them a note to let them know that I am not very happy with this and to PLEASE save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow, and Sea Green!!
It’s a bit crazy to think that all the recipes would be lost. At least Polyform, keep the primary colors!
I agree – please don’t discontinue these 3 colors.
I use Premo primarily in my clay work. I am happy to hear of the new colors that will be available soon. However, I am not happy to hear of the discontinuing of Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green. Please, Polyform Product, reconsider and keep those three colors. They are necessary for mixing our color recipes. One other thought. I would like a true red in addition to the orange red of Cadmium Red. Thank you!!
I promoted Premo brand clay specifically when I went on The Martha Stewart Show and demonstrated a polymer clay technique for covering eggs. I use Premo because it is made with artists in mind and I need the range of colors to stay complete (and even be expanded) so I can continue to use it and promote it. Thank you.
Liz Smith
How can you have a line of colours missing 2/3 of the basic primaries? We need zinc yellow and cobalt blue.
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
Please don’t remove these colors, being an artist these are 3 of the PRIMARY colors I use everyday. Removing colors does not make any sense.
I ask you to reconsider, it is only three colors!!
To discontinue Cobalt Blue and Zinc Yellow is ridiculous – they are indeed primary colours.
However, red is the third primary, not green….any green could be mixed from other colours in the range.
… just wanted to quickly pop in here and thank everyone for the early round of support. Please keep the comments coming!!!
@Caroline You’re right about green not technically being a primary, but the particular tone that comes from Sea Green is not easily created with any of the actual primaries. It is know as Phthalo Green in the artist paint world and is vital to several of my color recipes. You are also right about Red being a Primary but the two Reds Cadmium Red (warm) and Alizarin Crimson (cool) have not been put on the chopping block as far as I know.
@Joyce M: Thank you so much for pointing out what you said above. In regards to what else you can do… anything that will help to spread the word about this issue, would be helpful. If you frequent any of the polymer clay forums, please post a “public service” announcement to encourage everyone’s participation with this “virtual petition” that I’ve put togehter. If we are going to get a 1000 signatures, there’s still a long ways to go. Hopefully with everyone speaking out in unison in one place, we can all work together in saving our Precious Premo Primary Colors!!!!
Remember when the sun came up for many polymer clay users? It was when Marie Segal developed her strong, manageable clay and when Polyform began to market it as Premo. Sadly, the sun will quickly set on us Premo users if we lose two key primary colors! I’ll bet that the people who have made this decision know zero about color theory and have never even made a full-spectrum Skinner blend.
Furthermore, I bet they don’t know the following:
1) Polymer clay jewelry made it onto a New York runway this year, and it wasn’t hobbyists working with off-the-shelf colors of sparkle clay that made it happen.
2) The first major museum collection of polymer clay work was established this year, and the work included is serious ART — much of it made with Premo.
Polyform is more than short-sighted if it fails to listen to the teachers and artists who have raised this medium to new heights in the last 25 years.
They are also getting rid of red pearl. There is no good way to make red pearl. Unless that “magenta pearl” is a good facsimile, but last I checked, magenta was more on the pink side, wasn’t it? And adding the orangey cadmium red to that, I don’t imagine would make a good match for red pearl.
I also disagree with the choice to discontinue these colors. I have a series of color recipe ebooks that will need to be redone if these colors are gone. I’m pretty sure I will not be able to recreate some of the recipes without these 3 colors.
Honestly, if they do continue with the plans to discontinue these colors, I will have to switch clay brands. Even if the new colors are wonderful, I need to consistantly use one brand in my recipes so I would be unable to use the new colors.
After reading today’s blog I went to my recipe file and really this news is rather devasting…this would mean that
Cindy’s A Recipes use Cobalt Blue in 10 of them; the B Recipes total 14.
The Zinc Yellow A’s total 13 and the B’s also total 13.
The Sea Green A’s total 6 and the B’s total 5.
That is a total of 61 recipes that took how many hours to produce????
This is only Cindy’s recipes and some of you are doing your own. I was shocked to see just how much this affects Cindy.
So we need to make sure that every member learns of this and helps to put a stop to this before it is too late.
Is there anything else we can do, Cindy?
Thank you Cindy, for bringing this to our attention. Please, Polyform, don’t discontinue these three colors. Please!
I don’t know what I would do without those! I use all 3 of them almost daily! Please, Please keep these!
Looking at the names of some of the new colors, it looks as if they’re merging some of the former Dona Dewberry line into Premo, wasn’t there a denim and wasabi color in that line?
@Ken H:
Looks like it to me… These “new” Premo colors are also in the now defunct Studio line:
Pomegranate
Denim
Antique Gold
Navy
Blush
Spanish Olive
The new colours sound wonderful but removing basic primary colours that artists are using for established colour formulas to generate professional product lines is appallingly unfair to long term customers. Please reconsider this baffling decision.
What? Are they out of their minds. Obviously they are not artists. We were taught at an early age that we need these colors to create every other color out there. I’m shocked. I will definitely look into an alternate product.
Cobalt Blue and Sea Green are two of my favorite Premo colors.
As exciting as the new colors seem, I do not want to lose the essential colors of the old palette.
Please, don’t discontinue these colors!
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
If Polyform removes these colors, it will make a lot of my color recipes invalid… How can you do this to us??? I switched to Premo! Clay because of the colors – now I’m glad I didn’t sell my Kato Clay, looks like I may be going back to it… And I’m sure we’re not the only clayers that are extreemly unhappy about the loss of these 3 colors. And the Glow-in-the-Dark clay too, tsk, sad to see that go too…
~Lisa Whitham
I agree, they can add new colours without removing basic old ones!
Please don’t discontinue those colors! They are all too important to our art. And of course they are 3 of my favorites, isn’t that how it always works? You find something you love only to have the company discontinue it. sigh
Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!!
If you have access to facebook, please put your comments on the Polyform discussion page as well: facebook.com
#!/topic.php?uid=106551216055451&topic=456
@Carol Simmons: Good suggestion Carol… about leaving comments over at the Polyform Facebook page too! There is a live link to that discussion pg in my orig comment that was posted earlier today, as well as by my name just above. The more places we can can let our voice be heard the better. Let’s Save those colors!
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
I use polymer clay creationss in some of my designs…I cannot imagine why a primary color would be removed from production.
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
I agree save these colours! They are necesary to the colour mixing process..booo Polyform
Ack…clay that sounds like food. What are they thinking??? Golden or Daler Rowney would never take cobalt and zinc from their paint line. I doubt they have a paint called “Spanish Olive or Denim” Another example of how polymer clay is not considered part of the “fine art” world. We will never achieve true fine art status in the polymer clay world without an artists mixing palette of colors to work with.
Please Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green
Instead of removing..why not add more colors???? SAVE THEM !!!!!!
I am extremely disappointed that Polyform will be discontinuing cobalt Blue and zinc Yellow, two of the primary colors that artists need to mix their own custom color formulas and well as sea green which isn’t a primary, but is difficult to mix from colors which exist will still exist in the line. The fluorescents are wonderful to give a pop to formulas, too. Perhaps cobalt blue, zinc yellow, sea green, and the fluorescents aren’t up there near the top of the big seller list of PREMO colors, but those of us who mix custom colors buy A LOT of the OTHER colors to mix WITH them. I’ve been a dedicated PREMO user for a long time and over the years have recommended PREMO to 1,000’s of new clayers in schools and in the crafting community. I have recommended it BECAUSE the palette was designed with mixing in mind, and it uses the same vocabulary as color theory, oils and watercolors. Who can tell whether a “primary” with a name like “Sunshine” is a pure color and how it will mix up in color formulas? Having been a hardcore PREMO user for SO many years, it saddens me to write this, but with some of those critical primary colors scheduled to be discontinued from the line, I can’t think of a compelling reason to continue using PREMO and will probably be forced to eventually defect to Fimo when my stockpile runs out. (BTW, I have a business and spend hundreds of dollars a year on clay.)
What kind of company that makes a product for artists would do something as insane as discontinuing THREE primary colors??? It makes one wonder about whether decisions being made at Polyform are being done so by people who really know what they are doing. Very sad.
SAVE SEA GREEN!! SAVE COBALT BLUE!! SAVE ZINC YELLOW!!
Please keep Cobalt blue,Zinc yellow and Sea green!!!
These are primary colors for an artist and NO WAY CAN THESE COLORS BE MIXED. New colors are welcome but please do your research about primary colors. We have recipes developed with these primary colors and we would not be able to mix them again. I’m also unhappy about glow in the dark clay going to be discontinued. You can’t mix that either. So , please rethink about discontinuing these primary colors.
Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
When you look at how many choices there are with Sculpey III, it cannot hurt to keep these primaries.
Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
Save the primary colors!!! It is the artists who use these colors that are promoting polymer clay and encouraging many hobbyists to buy it. The hobbyists will use the colors with the fancy names, but they wouldn’t be buying them without the artists who mix their own colors and promote polymer clay as an art form.
Dear Polyform, while I am very excited about some of the new colors, discontinuing 3 very necessary colors (and red pearl, one of my favorites) is a bad business decision. Please do not alienate the polymer clay community.
Keep Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green.
I have posted on the Polyform page how steamed I am with their blatant disregard for the hours and hours of time and effort many many many of us have put into developing color recipes and color palettes. I think this is a tremendously bad decision on their part. I hope they hear us; if not, and I have to start all over with developing a palette, it won’t be with Premo!
Edie
Thank you for hosting this “virtual petition”
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
THESE COLORS ARE A MUST for ARTISTS. Specially the primaries.
Please, Please, Please don’t take them away.
Artists have been using them for years now and these colors are essential for us.
Please add me to the long list of clayers who don’t want to see Premo Sculpty Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green disappear!
I agree. Please keep the cobalt blue, zinc yellow and sea green.
I don’t know what I’ll do without zinc yellow, cobalt blue and blue pearl. At least please keep the primaries!!
Keeping an eye on the Facebook page. No news from Polyform. Maybe they’re all at a meeting….hoping tomorrow is a better day for Premo! Clay.
SAVE: Cobalt Blue Zinc Yellow Sea Green!
I don’t understand the reasoning behind eliminating the building blocks (primaries) to make room for a trend. Constantly changing these temporary colors along with hard to mix base colors creates a lot of inconvenience to those who are loyal to Premo. If we really want the hottest color we can, and do mix our own. But to do this, continuity is also necessary. Seems like little thought has been given to how artist’s specifically modify their own colors derived from base colors.
Those dedicated to this art form (who buy repeatedly) will be forced to compensate (with the worry that this will repeat itself in a few years); or simply switch brands to keep this from happening over and over. I have enjoyed using Premo, but for the first time I’m strongly considering changing brands because it’s just not worth the extra effort and expense recreating new color palettes every few years.
Please reconsider discontinuing Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow, Red Pearl, Sea Green, and Frost.
The new colors are great but yeah, dont why try to fix what isn’t broke. This will be costly to most of us.
Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green…
How in the world can one mix colors without the primaries?
Take away some of the mixes, but not the main ones…we need those…………….
Polyform ~ I respectfully request that you thoroughly consider the deafening outcry to reconsider the elimination of some key colors in the Premo product line.
!!!Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green!!!
Polyform, please think of all the people that have changed from other clays to premo due to Cindy’s tutorials. Cindy, and countless other artists spend hours developing color palettes, then rely on them for their work. Please do not take these colors away!!!!!!!
!!!Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green!!!
!!!Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green!!!
OMG what are you thinking? These are colors we use ALL the time. Colbalt blue is my favorite. I’m happy you’re introducing new colors BUT please do not remove colbalt blue, sea green or zinc yellow!!
Please save those colours, but add violet too!!! I need those colours!!! I’ll probably add the new ones to my must haves…but I need the other ones also. I’ll buy 1 lb blocks!
@Tina Holden: You make an excellent point Tina! Violet is also a good one to keep though I do think that one can be worked around a little easier than the others.
@Carolyn Good: I can see your point Carolyn for colors such as Ecru, which would be easily mixed. But can you think of a recipe from the current line of Premo that you could mix up to make Zinc Yellow, Cobalt Blue or Sea Green, because I can’t and I have made hundreds of custom color recipes. If there is a way to get a color that looks similar, it probably won’t mix the same way. I ran into the problem of making a whole lot of mud when experimenting with making recipes with the Studio by Sculpey line. This was because none of the colors were pure like the artist based Premo colors are.
I understand totally about missing some of those colors — my fav is the zinc yellow. I can also accept them taking those colors away as long as they provide the recipes for those colors like they say they will. I love the Premo colors but have not been happy with how soft and mushy the clay is so have switched to Kato which is much better since they changed their formula. Shades of Clay provides recipes for Kato clay to create some of our fav Premo colors which I have tried and use faithfully. I basically keep a batch of my basic Premo colors (ecru for instance) mixed all the time and use it like I would if I had that Premo color. Takes a little more mixing but once you have your recipe down there is nothing to it. Just a tip for some of those who are upset over the whole issue.
@Carolyn Good: Nice to know there is a way to overcome this situation! excuse my ignorance, but, what is “Shades of Clay”- book, blog, website, organization, class???
This is terrible! I need those colors to make custom colors that I’ve worked really hard to perfect. Please don’t discontinue!
Oh, no! Sea Green is my favorite color. Please don’t discontinue Sea Green, Zinc Yellow, or Cobalt Blue. I’ll also really miss Red Pearl and Green Pearl. Please reconsider your decision to discontinue those primary colors that are used so often in Cindy’s recipes as well as my own.
While I can understand the need to freshen up the Premo line…Removing PRIMARY colors seems like a horrible decision. PLEASE listen to your clientele, we NEED these colors for the wonderful items we make with your clay! Zinc Yellow and Cobalt Blue and Sea Green are vital to some of our most basic color mixes!
Polyform:
PLEASE do NOT discontinue Zinc yellow, Sea Green or Cobalt Blue. These are three very important colors on my pallett of polymer clay.
This is so sad to think a large company such as Polyform would make such a huge decision without putting any thought or research into it. At least it appears to have been done this way. The fact that you want to add colors and improve your business is great. But to sabotage your faithful and most dedicated customers is just thoughtless and rude. Surely you can understand how important these colors are to any artist who mixes and creates recipes with the premo clay how vital the primary colors are. All of these artists who have wrote in have shown premo nothing but true dedication. Recommending this wonderful clay to all new clayers praising it’s ability in color mixing and great performance as a polymer clay. Truth is told if these colors are dropped I am sure several of your dedicated clayers will be switching to another type of clay because you have forced them to do this so they can continue to mix their own colors. This will not be done by their choice but yours.
So Please if you make the right choice to Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green Premo Clay. All of your Premo Clay Fans will be more than thrilled to remain the dedicated Premo Clay users of the future.
Help us stay with you.
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
Please Premo, these colors are integral parts of our color palettes and recipes. These recipes have taken countless hours to create, mixing the right shades for our beautiful pieces of art. Cindy Lietz has passed along lots of these recipes to us (custom colors she’s worked hard to create!) The clay colors you’re planning to discontinue are ingredients we count on to mix up our recipes! There are even more customized, new shades we all make and add to our own “recipe books” — and they also require the primaries. We should be able to trust our clay company to have the clays we need to duplicate our custom mixes…please do not take our primary colors away!
The new products you’re adding do sound exciting, but it doesn’t make up for the loss of the all-important primaries that allow us to mix our colors. Besides the Cobalt Blue and Zinc Yellow, I just love Sea Green (one of my favorites!) I also use Red Pearl quite a bit, especially around the holidays…please do not get rid of this one, either. You say that the recipes for most will be available on the website, but I can’t see that working. How do you mix up a primary when it’s the base of a color recipe? At the very least, it will skew the results. It will mean a waste of the time spent creating our recipes…and having to start from scratch on most colors. It makes me sick to think of it…
It seems like you’re trying to attract new customers with “pretty colors”…and ignoring the artists who have stuck with you all this time. I beg you — please don’t do this to us!
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
This is what I posted on the Polyform facebook page:
At ClayAround we sell most makes of clay – and I am most disappointed with this announcement by Polyform. My statistics show that Copper (along with translucent and white) are the Premo best sellers – as is Frost. Cobalt blue is not so popular, but zinc yellow is a ‘must’ . And I believe it is a vary bad move to eliminat the fluorescent colours which crafters know will give a ‘lift’ to their colour schemes. I guess my customers will simply turn to other makes of clay………….. I wonder if these decisions are good marketing!?
In mitigation incorporating some of the Studio colours is a good idea – but why not more?
I think the decision to discontinue these 3 colors is very unfortunate and short sighted…….Some of the new colors sound intriguing, but they are not as essential to a working color palette as these colors are…Zinc Yellow, in particular, since it is the olny yellow that doesn’t have orangey tones in it. I wonder if artists were consulted on this decision? It sounds like a marketing ploy dreamed up by people who don’t even work with polymer clay…
Please Polyform do not discontinue ‘any’ of the colors. Zinc yellow, colbalt blue, sea green, pearl red, pearl blue, pearl green (my favorite) are all very important colors, why would you want to discontinue primaries and hard to recreate greens. And the flouros and GITD, how on earth can we recreate those from some recipe you give unless you give us a base fluro and GITD base in which we add color clays to??? Please listen to our needs, please!!!
Love the idea of new colors but ‘don’t’ ditch the old ones, and forget the cutesy color names – sunshine, wasabi, pomegranate – what is sunshine and who wants food names for clay … ugh!
GEE WIZZ—I’ve gone to polyform’s FB page and left a comment there just as you ask. I’m still so upset I can barely type. Just wanted to add my name to your list of unhappy clayers.
SAVE ZINC YELLOW
SAVE COBALT BLUE
SAVE SEA GREEN
and by listening to us, you (Polyform) may just learn a REAL marketing lesson.
i’m not one to do alot of facebook’n or such But this is IMPORTANT
LET’S all that read Cindy each week and never say anything
SAY IT NOW ————————————–SAVE OUR COLORS
I, too, am disappointed by the proposed elimination of these 3 colors from Premo! by Polyform. Apparently, they do not consider us artists, but just playing around? If so, they haven’t taken a look at the many pictures available of polymer clay artists’ work available on the internet, or our own on Facebook at Cindy’s page! Seems to go hand-in-hand with Joann’s deciding the polymer clay all belongs in the children’s section of the store, which is absurd.
Please, Polyform! While we enjoy getting new colors, please rethink and do not discontinue at least these 3: Cobalt blue, zinc yellow and sea green!
One thing has me rather curious. If clay artists purchase their clay through places like Hobby Lobby and Michaels, how can anyone (especially the manufacturer) KNOW if it’s the artist community purchasing it or if it’s just kids and casual users that are buying the product. Given the amount of $$ I spend each year on clay, my guess is that the artist community DOES contribute significantly to their revenue and it would be wise for them to listen.
Changing colors in a line is important whether it be paint or fabric…but there are always the “tried and true” colors that must remain as they are the basis of so many other colors. Zinc Yellow and Cobalt Blue are two very important primaries to the polymer clay community. Please Polyform, reconsider this decision.
Keep cobalt blue, zinc yellow, and sea green!!! Perhaps Polyform doesn’t realize that many clayers use primary colors to mix custom colors??? Premo is the stronges and easiest clay to use. I like Kato, which has a lovely blue and bright yellow. Kato is also strong but is often extremely difficult to condition. I admit to not having tried their new formula, though. If Polyform insists on dropping those colors I predict that Kato’s sales will sky rocket. Who in Polyform is making this decision???
Polyform -after reading so many negative comments about Zinc Yellow, Cobalt Blue and Sea Green -you must realize that you will be losing HUNDREDS if not thousands of loyal customers. Obviously, you need to re-think your product line, Discontinuing primary color ( OUR MAINSTAY) is a terrible choice.
I have posted on polyform site, also.
I was taken aback at the announcement of the retirement of cobalt blue and zinc yellow. Those are the two primary colours I use constantly to mix the other colours I use. Please keep these colours.
Polyform, Zinc Yellow, Cobalt Blue and Sea Green are vital to my art.
Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green!!! Like everyone here said, you can’t mix these colors from other colors, they are primary colors…
I mainly use Premo clay in my work and would be very unhappy to being losing a lot of these colours. Please don’t discontinue them.
I agree Cindy! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green!!!……
This petition is fine but I would encourage everyone here to send a personal e-mail to polyform or leave a comment on their facebook page letting them know how you feel. You will see far better results if everyone shows they are serious about it. Just a suggestion. One e-mail with a bunch of names doesn’t compare with several hundred or thousand e-mails. Get my point?
Thanks for your comment Carolyn. I agree that emails can also help the support this important cause. However, the big benefit of hosting a virtual petition like this, is so that everything is out in the open. A public page with a 1000 votes of support on it, is a pretty powerful document. I’m sure the decision makers at Polyform are all watching closely.
NOTE TO POLYFORM (AND IRIS-W): My sincere goal here, is to help you guys see how important this issue really is. I for one, would love to remain loyal to your Premo brand…
Adding my voice to the crowd of people who are utterly perplexed that a company would alienate it’s customers to this degree. Don’t they have a market research group that would look into the impact this has on it’s customers? I would think that it is Marketing/Business Survival 101 to not piss off your customers and yet . . . that is exactly what they are doing!
Polyform: please listen to us, don’t discontinue our primary colors! Those should be in a separate category that doesn’t get messed with. Have another “decorator category” and play around with those if you want to make changes but please, don’t take away our primary colors!!!
Save Zinc Yellow!!
Save Colbalt Blue!!!
Save Sea Green!!!!
Save your reputation as a company that actually cares about the people who spend their hard-earned dollars on your products!!!!!!!!
My hands hurt, but I agree with Lawrence, so:
“OUTRAGEOUS !!! What is Polyform thinking ? Not the first time they have screwed up with clay colours such as the now defunct Studio clay.
I guess STAEDTLER FIMO and Kato Polyclay will be laughing all the way to the bank.
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!”
Yes, I also wrote the “using Kato” in my post. We should stress the economic repercussions if Polyform drops these colors. “Hitting where it hurts the most” often brings the best results. Can you imagine the dollars people will NOT be spending for these Premo colors? It will be the same amount that Kato will gain if these colors are dropped. I do not wish to use any clay that isn’t strong enough for jewelry. Kato is strong. No primary colors in Premo; primary colors in Kato…..sounds like a very bad financial decision to me.
@Koolbraider: You bring up a really good point. I’ve just written my letter to Polyform. Thought this was an important point as well: ….”Please keep in mind that many of us are also parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and love to introduce and incorporate clay with the children in our lives. I’m less likely to buy from a company I’m not happy with – Premo, Sculpey – and will find it easy to reach for the less expensive brand instead.”
I’m pretty upset by Polyforms’ decision to eliminate the following colours…Cobalt Blue, Copper, Zinc yellow, Blue Pearl, Sea Green and Violet. I’ve gone to a lot of time and trouble to make a custom set of colour blends up for commercial special order items and will now be unable to match them again. I understand the companys’ need to “freshen up” some of the colour choices but there are many thousands of us who need the basics to remain true for the above mentioned reasons. I really hope they will reconsider.
Signing the petition to show my support. Also left this comment on their Facebook discussion page:
“Premo is touted as being based on an artist’s palette. Getting rid of two primary colors, Zinc Yellow and Cobalt Blue, seems to go against the brand’s image.
As Tonja’s comments indicate, this decision also shows a disconnect between Polyform and the claying community. Many polymer clay artists I know have been working through Lindly Haunani and Maggie Maggio’s excellent color book, which relies heavily on mixing your own colors from the primaries. Maybe the people who mix their own colors aren’t the bulk of your customer base — maybe the dollar signs show that many customers want straight-from-the-package colors. But do you really want to frustrate the designers and artists and teachers who have spent countless hours mixing their personal color schemes using primaries you’re now discontinuing? Those designers and artists and teachers are the ones who support and promote your brand by recommending it to new clayers.
Please re-consider.”
Good luck with the petition!
please reconsider elimanating your premo colors i rally like premo
and use it in most of my work.
I really will miss may of the pearl colors, the primaries are so needed, please keep those and sea green !
Save the colors!!
Plz don’t discontinue the cobalt blue, zinc yellow, or the sea green! You can keep them and actually add other colors, y’know – it’s ok!!! Really!!
I agree with what everyone’s saying here – it appears that the artist community has not been consulted about this decision to discontinue such important colors (primaries!) I have created custom mixed colors that I use to make my jewelry and decor items. I use most, if not all, of the colors that are being discontinued in my recipes! I especially use Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow, and the pearl colors. I love Sea Green, too. Please do not discontinue these colors. It will mean the time I spent perfecting my custom colors was in vain. Color recipes shared and traded with other artists will be of no use, either. I sincerely hope this petition gets noticed – I also sent an email to Polyform about this.
!!! Save Cobalt Blue, Zinc Yellow and Sea Green !!!
Well I never heard of any sort of manufacturer of colour products ever thinking of getting rid of Primary colours. That’s where it all starts for every little thing you do in colour.
I always told my students to buy 3 primaries and black and white and colour mixing goes from there, be it paint or polyclay,so it amazes me that a company whose business it is to sell primary colours in clay like this, is so STUPID as to forget where it all comes from.
I can’t see their reasoning.!!
Save COBALT BLUE,ZINC YELLOW AND SEA GREEN!!!
TO SAVE THE COMPANY, THEY NEED TO HEAR WHAT THE TRUE ARTISTS ARE SAYING,
or it will be a melt down for them. They are not the only poly clay makes around. ZINC YELLOW is vital to our colour mixing.
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Removal of these colors would be quite disturbing.