{"id":17922,"date":"2013-10-17T03:05:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T10:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=17922"},"modified":"2013-10-12T16:35:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T23:35:43","slug":"polymer-clay-color-mixing-color-saturation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-color-mixing-color-saturation\/17922\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymer Clay Color Mixing &#8211; Color Saturation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=17922#video\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" alt=\"Polymer Color Saturation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2013-10\/17-90437-polymer-color-saturation.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Video #437:<\/span> Do you know which one of these Premo Sculpey blues is stronger &#8230; Ultramine or Cobalt?<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080; font-size: large;\"><strong>Topics Covered In This Video:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As you&#8217;re learning more about polymer clay color mixing, one of the things you are going to want to keep in mind, is the strength of the color.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Not all colors in polymer clay are equal. Some are stronger, some are weaker.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is really similar when you are working with color mixing things like oil paints, artists acrylics and water color paints.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I don&#8217;t know if earth based pigments are actually used in polymer clay, but I can tell you that the Premo Sculpey colors at least have comparable properties to the artist colored paints which do use earth pigmentation.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today I am going to talk about the color strengths of two different blues in the Premo color line, Ultramarine Blue and Cobalt Blue.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Ultramarine Blue is on the cool side of the color wheel, which means it leans toward the purple side of the wheel.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Cobalt Blue is on the warm side, which means it leans toward the green side of the color wheel.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">When you look at the two colors side by side, you may think that the Ultramarine Blue is a stronger color, simply because it looks darker than the Cobalt Blue. But in fact the opposite it true.\u00a0 Cobalt is the stronger one.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In today&#8217;s video, I will show you how to do some simple mixing tests that will allow you to see better what I am talking about.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As you will see by the mixed samples, Ultramarine is in fact half as strong as the Cobalt because it takes about twice as much Ultramarine to end up at a shade of blue that is roughly half way between the Cobalt and the Ultramarine. If this sounds confusing, the video will clear things up for you.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So the lesson here is that if you are using these two blues for creating your own color mixes, always be a little less stingy with the Ultramarine and a little more careful with the Cobalt, than what you might expect.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">These differences in color saturations happen because of the many different colors (pigments) that are used in polymer clay. The more you experiment with 50\/50 mixes, the more you will understand how each color behaves, and therefore, you will gain a much better understanding of their mixing properties<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As a final note, please note that although every brand of polymer clay behaves differently, the principles of experimenting with 50\/50 color mixes will be helpful no matter which clay you choose to use.<a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vd50kGp2q1I?rel=0\" height=\"431\" width=\"575\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: large; color: #808080;\">Question of the Day:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Do you suffer from <em>Scraper Build-Up<\/em>? I&#8217;d love to hear your stories in the comment section below.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By the way, if you have a polymer clay question or challenge you&#8217;d like me to address in an upcoming video vlog, do post it in the comments below. I&#8217;d love to help you find quicker and easier ways to bring up the professionalism in your polymer clay art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808080;\">Oh and don&#8217;t forget to give these videos a<em> Thumbs Up<\/em> click at YouTube if you are enjoying them. The more <em>Likes<\/em> a video gets, the higher it rises in the searches. And that means even more people will be able to join in on this polymer clay journey of a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Also, by subscribing to our YouTube Channel directly, you will receive notifications as soon as new videos are uploaded. To subscribe, click here&#8230;<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vd50kGp2q1I\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Mixing Polymer Clay Colors &#8211; Understanding Saturation<\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\">. The Subscribe Button is right near the top of that YouTube page.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Looking forward to hearing from you!<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 575px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px;\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video #437: Do you know which one of these Premo Sculpey blues is stronger &#8230; Ultramine or Cobalt?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2663],"tags":[2678],"class_list":["post-17922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-mini-tutes","tag-color-mixing-plus1-method-saturation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}