No lie, this mix starts with 3 of my favorite Souffle colors: Bluestone, Guava and Cinnamon. ALL the Souffle colors are amazing, but these three are such workhorses for me. I love, love the 1:1 mixes as well as the actual...
I won't lie, I love me some GREENS and I got some purty ones this week! There are so many color palette combos with these seven colors, it hurts my head to think about them! I have TWO wild cards in this...
I'm home for 2 whole days before I take off to teach in Dallas. The class I took with Claire Maunsell in Nanaimo, Victoria B.C. was just as amazing as I could have hoped for. I AM happy to be home with internet - trying to drive around new cities with no navigation is a nightmare. And no one has...
Another week another small evolution on my NCT format! But I have to say, I think that this palette is my winner for this year's favorite palette! Granted there are no eye/mind shattering radical mix colors , but I like all these colors and these mixes- in fact, I like the entire palette! Let's look at the original colors along...
My adventure with Igloo continues.. and I've decided to put all the palettes together so that they stay sorted correctly (THANKS ANNA!) This is a fun palette because the starter colors look very nautical, until you add the pop of Canary and, of course, I've never met a green color I didn't like! Canary can really hold it's own in...
I realized in last month that in all the years I've done NCT that I've never featured White as a mix color. So this month, Igloo is my featured color-and, as usual, there were some surprises along the way. I started with a kind of nautical palette of Souffle Sea Glass, Igloo and Lagoon, but I threw in Premo Accents...
Mixing Colors Technique Read on to learn how to make some of our favorite clay color mixes! Dream it, create it! Maggie Maggio’s Color Mixing Map is the key to color mixing using premo! Sculpey. Simple and straight forward, the map uses three basic premo! colors: Zinc Yellow, Cobalt Blue and Fuchsia. premo! is the perfect mixing clay because the...
I know, CRAZY right? I just triple checked my master photo to make sure that I had these laid out correctly. I expect one or, maybe two, surprise mixes, but not ALL THREE! And Souffle Sea Glass? Apparently, it's as weird as it's Premo counterpart Peacock Pearl! You NEVER know what the mixes will be with these two. What I...
Now this was an interesting color palette when I teamed these cool Souffle colors with Premo! Accents Gold - I got a mid-century modern color palette in the 1:1 mixes and some of the sub palettes! (and I LOVE me some mid-century modern). First off, that 1:1 mix of Guava and Gold make a warm, rich gold that reminds me of...
Yeah, I admit it, I get obsessed with a color from time to time (okay, ALL THE TIME). Right now it's Souffle Guava - a regular pink in the package that somehow transforms to a warm pink when cured (although it doesn't actually change color). And look how nice it looks with the 18% grey background. I'm also currently obsessed with...
Ah now, we have some Spring/Summer colors here! I am fascinated at how boldly Souffle Canary mixes with other colors. And I have a new color crush - Guava. In the package it looks a little to blah pink, but it's magic once it's baked. I don't think it shifts color, but it like solidifies maybe???? To this really nice...
Wow, I didn't know when I picked that title that April would actually be the "January 96th". My heart goes out to all those caught up in the huge storms this week! It really makes those of us in the sunshine states feel guilty (like, why am I inside writing on my computer when I should be outside?). Well, this...
The week was an interesting experiment. I took the three Souffle colors that have captured my Squirrel!-like attention lately and mixed them with Premo Accents Silver (another color that I tend to forget about). All three of the mixes are beautiful and elegant. The Silver toned down the "hey look at me" portion of the Souffle color and made it...
by Anke Humpert “People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and its ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spat blues. Murky darknesses. In my line of work, I...
April...already? Come on! Well, it did give me an opportunity to play a little with my newest clay crush - Souffle Jade. Jade is a green with blue roots. Normally, I'm a warm green girl, but I really kinda like what I can do with this trickster green. Mix it with a yellow and it becomes more of a blue...
The last NCT for March? Well, January might have dragged on a bit, but I don't even remember having coffee in February and now it's the end of March? Sheeshh. I love these four colors together right out of the package - Robin Egg, Latte, Cinnamon and Jade - so earthy! If I look at the Robin Egg, Latte and...
HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SPRING!! I'm bringing you some soft spring greens today too. Now you know that I love me some greens and these are NO exception! The BIG surprise to me was that the Souffle Robin Egg, mixed with Latte 1:1 made a lovely soft green! I was thinking I would get a cooler version of Latte and...
Look Ma! No Cinnamon! LOL I've moved the Premo Gold into the Main Mix Three, along with Guava and our Robin Egg. I've added Souffle Canary as our Mix Agent this week. And I got some surprises in the 1:1 mixes. First, Canary and Robin Egg make a killer green that is not quite as bright as Pistachio in...
I'm attempting to wean myself off Souffle Cinnamon and I decided to explore Souffle Robin Egg a little more. It always seems to surprise me when I add it to a color palette or mix it with other colors. As you can see, I'm not quite weaned off my precious Cinnamon, it makes an appearance in this weeks starter palette...
Winter decided to visit us in February after a spectacularly glorious January of 75 degrees, cool breezes, sleep weather nights.. It was actually colder when I got home here to SoCal than it was in New Jersey at the Clayathon! My new format here for the NCT is still evolving and you will notice that I'm now labeling those sub...
I'm on the road at the New York Clayathon this week, but I'm checking in with my NCT blog for this week! Some of our mix colors this month are sticking around - Souffle Cinnamon, Turnip and Latte. I'm also adding Souffle Robin Egg this week. I keep forgetting about Robin Egg and it's a pretty nice little color to...
Okay, I'm starting with Souffle Cinnamon again since it's the my color of the month (as well as my current color crush), AND I'm keeping the Souffle Sea Glass as well as putting my mixer from last week, Souffle Latte into the base trio - Cinnamon, Latte, Sea Glass. This week's Mixer is Souffle Turnip (my color crush from like...
Souffle Cinnamon - I love the color by itself, but I'm finding that it's an excellent mix color as well. For instance, want a soft maize yellow? Mix 2 parts Canary and 1 part Cinnamon. But I'm ALREADY digressing.. I'm using Cinnamon as my "base color" this month in our trio mixes this month. So let's get to it! This...
I don't often mix with a black clay. And I can't really tell you why, except I love vibrant colors. But when I DO mix with a Black color (or Poppy Seed Souffle here), I usually fall in love. My kids showed me many years ago that you can get that cool acid green/yellow by mixing a little black into...
This idea didn't quite work out like I thought it would. I assumed that adding the Premo Accents Copper to these colors would tone them down but add a warmth as well. It did work that way on the Souffle Latte and So 80s but I don't care for the 1:1 mix with the Souffle Royalty. My guess would be...
Okay, I've double checked my calendar and I *believe* I"m in the right place at the right time for New Color Tuesday! (actually, you can't blame me for being so excited that I posted on Monday last week can you?) We are a whole week into the New Year and I have been having a "productive play" week with my...
I'm starting the New Year off with a second cup of mocha coffee - not because I was out late, but because I have a dog who can't handle fireworks. I even dutifully gave BOTH dogs calming drops, but once the neighborhood started popping them off around 11, she was a mess. The little one snored through everything, but they seemed...
Well, Well, Well, the last NCT of 2017. Where did this year go? This mix was one my sons showed me years ago when they came up to me and gave me this cool acid green color clay. I asked them where they got it and they said they mixed it and they proceeded to school me in how to...
Oh yeah, definitely one of my favorite mixes! I absolutely love everyone of these colors. What a way to add a rich highlight to a black background, or even a texture to a black - using the Gold Glitters. I've used that 16RG/1B mix so often now for my work. I especially like it for the bezels, but in this...
I love December. Things seem to slow down for me after a hectic Fall. I actually unpack my tool bag and clean up around the studio. One of my most favorite parts is looking through all the NCTs for the year to find my favorites and the surprises. I'm starting this December off with one of my all time favorite...
