Sculpey Does the Season’s Hottest Colors for Spring and Summer 2006

Sculpey Does the Season's Hottest Colors for Spring and Summer 2006

It's HARD to pick just a few colors. But, it's relatively easy to mimic the colors in Sculpey. I decided that I would mix the colors both in the Premo! Sculpey and in my favorite Ultra Light/Scupey III mix. Why me? One of my majors for my Photography degree was in Color Theory. I know, that's the color of LIGHT, which is different than the color of PIGMENT. But, I worked for over 12 years in photo labs, reading the colors of the negatives and retouching thousands of photos. THAT was expert color matching on the fly. You had seconds to expertly match a color, blend it into the surrounding area and move on to the next spot. Our dyes were based on the Grumbacher oil line, so the colors of Premo! Sculpey are just like home to me.

Materials:

Sculpey III or Premo in the following colors:
- Sculpey III
  - UL
  - Yellow
  - Chocolate
  - Blue
  - Purple
  - Beige
  - Atomic Orange
  - Leaf Green
  - Sunshine
  - Violet
  - Turquise
  - String Bean
  - Granny Apple
  - Orange
- Premo
  - Ecru
  - Cad Yellow
  - White
  - Ultramarine Blue
  - Purple
  - Orange
  - Violet
  - White
  - Green
  - Raw Sienna
  - Turquoise
Small circle cutter
Clay dedicated pasta machine or clay roller

Let's get started with the five pastels (I used a small cutter to accurately measure my quantities from a #1 sheet of clay):

Premo:	4 Ecru 1 Cad Yellow 2 White	UL/S3:	4 UL 1 Yellow .5 Chocolate
Premo:	3 White .5 Ultramarine Blue	UL/S3:	6 UL 1 Blue .5 Purple
Premo:	2 White 1 Ultramarine Blue .5 Purple	UL/S3:	3 UL .5 Blue .5 Purple
Premo:	5 Ecru 1 Orange .5 Violet 5 White	UL/S3:	4 UL 4 Beige .5 Atomic Orange
Premo:	4 Ecru 1 Green 3 White	UL/S3:	6 UL .5 Leaf Green .5 Sunshine

Now for the bolder colors:

Premo:	4 Raw Sienna 1 Violet	UL/S3:	4 UL 4 Chocolate 1 Violet
Premo:	2 Turquoise 1 White	UL/S3:	4 UL 1 Turquoise .25 String Bean
Premo:	2 Green 1 Orange .5 White	UL/S3:	2 UL 2 Leaf Green 1 Granny Apple
Premo:	5 Ecru 1 Orange .5 Violet	UL/S3:	6 UL 4 Orange 1 Violet
Premo:	4 Ultramarine Blue 1 Violet	UL/S3:	1 UL 1 Purple

What color was used the in the most combinations? Did you guess White or Ecru? It’s actually Violet. We used it often in photo retouching, which is why I reach for it now. The most common color to use to retouch teeth in a photo is violet..who knew?

The pastel combinations are perfect to add text to your frames or scrapbook pages. Of course, it just wouldn't be the season without some flowers. Click on this link for an easy way to create some great flower designs:

Scrapbook or Frame Ornaments

Now let's do a project with our bolder colors. The Peach color, green and turquoise combine with a thin border of black to make a great faux wooden bead. Click on this link for directions:

Faux Wooden Bead Bracelet