Mixing pastels

[D. J. Doss]

Hi!

I have tried and tried to make some nice pastel
colors and I haven't had any luck. I am especially
interested in making a nice peach color. FIMO
doesn't come in peach (at least not one like
I am thinking of) nor any other really nice soft
pastel colors. Any advice would be greatly
appreciated.

-Dj
--do...@protein.bchs.uh.edu
---If life gives you lemons you tend to get bitter.

[Wendi W Blank]

In article <3s4mc7$r...@crl3.crl.com>, D. J. Doss <lar...@crl.com> wrote:
>
>I have tried and tried to make some nice pastel
>colors and I haven't had any luck. I am especially
>interested in making a nice peach color.

Any advice would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>-Dj
>--do...@protein.bchs.uh.edu
>---If life gives you lemons you tend to get bitter.
>

I don't know what colors you've been mixing to get pastels, but I think mixing
the color with a translucent (I use Sculpey III) gives a much better result
than mixing with white. Good luck.

Wendi
wbl...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

[gwen baker]

I have a color mixing chart that was put out by American Clay Company and
Shirley Rufener designs on it. Any way it has country, victorian,
southwest, fashion, pastels, cottage, bright, and frosted colors there are
several listings for peach

cottage pstels1 part red 12 parts white
southwest 1 p red 8 p white
peach frost 1/2 p red 72 p

There are somehting like 60 colors on it.

Gwen Baker
bake...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

[Rebecca955]

For mixing pastels, it helps to start with the clearest colors you can
find--the regular fimo yellow rather than golden yellow, and cerise rather
than red. I have made good peach and light orange with about 1 part
cerise, 3 parts yellow and 5 to 10 parts white or pearl. The navy
lightens well to a soft blue, and a mix of the three greens (Turquioise,
leaf and regular) makes a good pale green. The turquoise will lighten to
a minty aqau.
The amount of white needed is amazing. But the new stuff is really soft.

We have seen a lot of an orangy yellow called Flan this spring: One part
golden yellow, 3 parts champagne, 5 parts white, and a smidge of cerise.

Half magenta and half burgundy makes a wonderful blue-toned pink that
lightens nicely.

good luck

Becky Preston (Rebec...@a0l.com)

[DANA]

In article <3s4mc7$r...@crl3.crl.com>, lar...@crl.com (D. J. Doss) writes...
>Hi!

>
>I have tried and tried to make some nice pastel
>colors and I haven't had any luck. I am especially

>interested in making a nice peach color. FIMO
>doesn't come in peach (at least not one like
>I am thinking of) nor any other really nice soft

>pastel colors. Any advice would be greatly

>appreciated.
>
>-Dj
>--do...@protein.bchs.uh.edu
>---If life gives you lemons you tend to get bitter.
>

fimo doesnt come in any soft colors cuz fimo doesnt know what the word soft
means.

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[Diana the Tiny Odinist]

Hmmm. I never seemed to have a problem with that. I usually just mix a
darker color into a blob of white sculpy.
How about starting with a nice chunk of white, and gradually mixing in
small amounts of orange until you get a nice peach? that should work.

Diana

[stepha...@delphi.com]

D. J. Doss <lar...@crl.com> writes:

>I have tried and tried to make some nice pastel
>colors and I haven't had any luck. I am especially

Try FIMO apricot (28) and mint (39), very pretty pastels. Best
price I've found is at TSI 1-800-426-9984 (10 large blocks at
$6.70 each--less than 10 is $8.15 a block)

Stephanie
stepha...@delphi.com

[Arlene Thayer]

--
Hi Gwen,
Where can I get that chart for mixing colors?
Thanks,
Arlene

[OPTION911]

I disagree that translucents work better than whites for pastels. If
you think a lot of white is needed to mix pastels, even more translucent
is needed. In addition, the pastel made with translucent may tint to a
darker shade when slightly over-baked; white wont do that.

Sam Comen

M.M. Prepare to die earthling!