{"id":12771,"date":"2011-03-14T06:35:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T13:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=12771"},"modified":"2014-12-13T19:57:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T03:57:38","slug":"polymer-clay-color-recipes-foxgloves-palette-premo-sculpey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-color-recipes-foxgloves-palette-premo-sculpey\/12771\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymer Clay Color Recipes | Foxgloves Palette [Premo Sculpey]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Foxgloves 1A: Porcelain Cup<\/span>
\n2A:<\/span><\/span><\/strong> Wineberry
\n<\/span><\/strong>3A:<\/span><\/span><\/strong> Foxgloves
\n<\/span><\/strong>4A:<\/span><\/span><\/strong> Stamen
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I am crazy about Foxgloves! I love their tall lanky stems with the spotted blossoms… and how the older blooms are always larger and lower on the stem, as if there to support the younger smaller ones just above.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also love the folklore behind the name of the foxglove. Legend has it that the scoop shaped flowers are perfectly formed little gloves for foxes. I can just picture the momma fox slipping a pair of these flower mittens onto her babies’ paws to keep them warm on a cold chilly morn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in the late 80’s when Doug and I lived in Laidlaw (a tiny little community at the foot of the Mountains North East of Vancouver), I developed a fondness for Foxgloves.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tall, nodding blooms of these wildflowers would grow in the rockiest most inhospitable soil, and blow in unison across our windy fields. They were mostly a white and pink variety up at the mountain property… quite spectacular to behold when they sprouted up a thousand strong.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’d once seen Foxgloves in a flower shop for $5 a stem. So when they were in bloom I would fill large enamel containers, and feel like a gazzilionaire!<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, Doug and I moved closer into civilization, where we ended up settling at our current house in the burbs. And to my delight, there were already a few Foxgloves standing proud in the English-Style Country Garden out behind our new home.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the way, due to a lack of time these days, my quaint little English Garden is now more of a “survivial-of-the-fittest”<\/em> place where only the hardiest plants are able to make a go of it LOL.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any way, the above Foxglove color palette photo, shows a particular strain that has survived and even thrived, in spite of my temporary garden neglect. Thanks to some fancy cross breeding, compliments of the local bees, it has an unusually beautiful mix of Creamy Yellow, Wine, Violet and Rusty Orange.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m learning from you Cindy how to look at something and pick out the colors. At the moment I have this huge bouquet (Valentine’s Day) with these gorgeous flowers and the colors are so beautiful. <\/span><\/span>~Cheryl-H<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I just started making the colour recipe chips and find them invaluable. There is nothing more frustrating then starting a project and wanting to add a specific colour to it and at that point having to start from scratch to figure out how to mix it. My collection is small, and I can’t wait to learn how to better organize it and utilize all the prepackaged colours to provide colourific inspiration. <\/span><\/span> ~Janet-R<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I decided to give polymer clay a try again. Got sidetracked with other things but recently started reading the blog and watching all the videos again. I was just going to start to make the color recipes and like so many here, Cindy’s recent color mixing video<\/a> will now make that task easier. <\/span><\/span> ~Catherine-R<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inspired by the amazingly rich shades of the Foxglove photo taken by Doug in our garden last Summer, the recipes for this color palette will be added to the Polymer Clay Members Library during the month of April-2011 in Vol-035 [A-Series]:<\/span><\/p>\n