{"id":45,"date":"2008-04-03T16:34:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T23:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/red-polymer-clay-color-mixing-saturation\/45\/"},"modified":"2017-01-23T23:29:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T07:29:25","slug":"red-polymer-clay-color-mixing-saturation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/red-polymer-clay-color-mixing-saturation\/45\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Polymer Clay Color Mixing Tips &#8211; A Riveting Story About Saturation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/vid\/101\/90021-P.jpg\" alt=\"Red Polymer Clay\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Vid #017: Not all Red&#8217;s Are Created Equal: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Wow! You must really be a fanatic to click on a headline that promises to share riveting stories about <strong>Mixing Red Polymer Clay<\/strong> :-). Don&#8217;t worry though. I&#8217;m crazy about clay too so we&#8217;re in the<\/span><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> same boat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today&#8217;s tip is about how some shades of a particular color are more dominant than others. This is especially true with red polymer clay. For example, I once mixed 2 shades of red Fimo together to come up with a new, warmer tone about half way between the original two. I was surprised to discover that the required mix ratio ended up being 6 to 1 instead of 50:50 as I had initially thought it would be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">When you are experimenting with your own custom color combinations, it&#8217;s best to add small amounts of the stronger color of polymer clay to the weaker one, until you get the desired result. 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