Seaweed Palette | Premo Color Recipes Vol-083-A

1-A: Kelp
2-A: Pikes Weed
3-A: Coralina
4–A: Seaweed

Don’t these draping clusters of different colorful seaweed varieties look like decorative scarves a Mermaid might wear? The pink frilly ruffles, the pearl like strands, the wavy lengths of golds and greens… a fashion designer would have difficulty duplicating the lovely forms of these ocean flora.

As far as how they became draped along this salt encrusted piece of driftwood jutting out from the rocky seashore… I would like to imagine it as the private dressing room of a young mermaid, where she flung the sea scarves… trying to find the perfect match to her scallop shell bodice and long flowing red hair.

But alas… it was actually Doug that did the flinging. He placed these colorful specimens along the branch, while we were beach combing at Manchester State Park in Washington… looking for the perfect color recipe photos!

I like the picture that I painted better, though… Don’t you?

Any who, I do hope you enjoy this Vol-083-A Series color palette chosen for the month of April 2015.

The following Vol-083 A-series Seaweed Palette will be added to the Polymer Clay Members Library at the beginning of April 2015:

• Kelp (Recipe 083-1A)
• Pikes Weed (Recipe 083-2A)
• Coralina (Recipe 083-3A)
• Seaweed (Recipe 083-4A)

[wp_ad_camp_1] … Kelp is the golden brown color of the wavy sheets of kelp seaweed first up from the left, on the branch of driftwood. Pikes Weed is the name for the dusty coral pink of the seaweed next in line, with the long pearly strands. Then comes Coralina which is the ruffled bright pink clumps of Red Algae (not technically a seaweed at all). And Seaweed is the dark green color of the Sea Lettuce seaweed chunks, intertwined amongst the other more colorful varieties.

I’m learning more about color theory from the recipes than I could ever learn from a book. This is another beautiful palette. Thanks Doug for your uncanny ability to capture the beauty of nature, and to you, Cindy, for your uncanny ability to translate it into recipes we can incorporate into our work. What a team!! ~Elisabeth-S

I LOVE receipes….because I can’t really make up colours in my head yet. I am very new to polymer clay!! And frankly don’t want to waste my money on making ugly colours!! So it is nice to have that work done for me… gives me more time to play. ~Kam-K

I’m new at polymer clay but after encouragement from Cindy on my blog, I got up enough courage to start playing. Color has been fascinating for me. After doing some color mixing experiments that went horribly wrong, I am excited to start using the color recipe cards! ~Judith-R

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