{"id":18009,"date":"2013-11-04T03:05:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T11:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18009"},"modified":"2013-11-06T18:41:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T02:41:25","slug":"stepped-graduated-color-blend-gradients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/stepped-graduated-color-blend-gradients\/18009\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepped Graduated Color Blend &#8211; Old School Gradients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18009#video\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" alt=\"Stepped Graduated Color Blend\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2013-11\/04-90355-pt0-stepped-graduated-color-blend.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Video #355:<\/span> How color gradients were done before the Skinner Blend was invented by Judith.<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Wait a second &#8230; Cindy&#8217;s hair is long again! How did that happen? And the video is #355 &#8230; wasn&#8217;t the last one #450?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">No, you haven&#8217;t just entered the Twilight Zone. This clip, as well as the next one coming up on Thursday, were filmed while back. We were planning to use them for another project that got a bit derailed. So there was no point in letting them sit any longer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Geez, it didn&#8217;t seem like that long ago when we shot this, but it was almost 100 videos ago. No wonder it seems a little awkward to me when I watch this now&#8230; I have had a bit more practice since then!<\/span><\/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;\">Color blends are used in polymer clay projects for all sorts of neat things, including canes and other projects like my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/sweet-pea-earrings-polymer-clay-tutorials-vol-051\/15955\/\">Sweet Pea Earrings<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You may have heard of a Skinner Blend, which is basically a blend of polymer clay that gradually shifts from one color to another.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Well originally, the way color blends were made was by manually measuring and mixing colors in graduated amounts so that individual colors were created in varying shades from one color to another, but it was very labor intensive.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I show in the video how this was originally done by cutting out squares of both Black and White polymer clay and mixing them by hand to create a stepped graduated color blend.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I also show how the strength or color saturation of each color used in the stepped blend can effect the over all result of the blend&#8230; you&#8217;ll have to watch the video to understand what I mean.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So that was the old way of making graduated color blends. I will show you in future videos, other faster ways of making them. But for today, I thought it would be fun to share with you some history of how things used to be done in polymer clay.<a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nrhGyMUPGOU?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;\">Have you ever made one of these graduated step blends? And can you see yourself using them in any way?<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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nrhGyMUPGOU\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Mixing Color Gradients Using Stepped Graduated Technique<\/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 #355: How color gradients were done before the Skinner Blend was invented by Judith.<\/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":[2678,2679],"class_list":["post-18009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-mini-tutes","tag-color-mixing-plus1-method-saturation","tag-patterns-sheets-color-gradients-mokume-gane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009","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=18009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}