Polymer Clay Color Mixing Trick - Color Plus 1 Method
Video #413: Making it quick, simple and easy for you to come up with your own custom color palette blends... More Info: www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?... Polymer Clay Tutor.
Topics Covered In This Video:
* This color mixing trick is something that I call the 'Color Plus 1 Method'. I use it all the time... and you can too.
* Color mixing polymer clay can be intimidating for a lot of people, but this trick will make it a lot easier to come up with your own custom color palette.
* I show some colors from the Premo color line, that don't go together very nicely straight from the pack.. Fuchsia, Orange, Cadmium Yellow, Green and Raw Sienna.
* If I take those same colors and 'Plus 1' them with some Gold or Black or any other color, I can make a really neat color palette that pulls everything to together in an aesthetically pleasing way.
* I demonstrate mixing 1 part of the base color Fuchsia and 1/2 part Gold clay to make a beautiful iridescent Raspberry color. I then continue down the line, mixing 1 part color and 1/2 part Gold to each of the colors. Watch the video to see how simple this technique is to do.
* Mixing my plus one color (in this case it was a 1/2 part Gold), to each of the base colors I want to use, creates a new color palette that flows together, because each of them have the underlying Gold color in common.
* I show the same formula being done with the same base colors (Fuchsia, Orange, Cad. Yellow, Green, Raw Sienna) mixed with a Plus 1 color of 1/8 part Black. Because Black is such a strong color, I chose to much less in the mix, than I did the Gold.
* You can use this 'Plus 1' color mixing trick for making palettes with any colors that you choose. You will have to experiment with amounts of the Plus 1 color you would like to add, because each color has a different strength.
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Just a beginner here, and always struggle with colors and mixing. This was SO helpful! Thank you! In one of the recent comments said you moved from this platform to FB. If so, what is your fb page so I can come follow?
Oh, I am so glad to hear the video helped you, Lisa! I haven't moved from this platform... we have just temporarily stopped making new videos while we are upgrading our website and business model. unfortunately, it has taken us far too long to get back here. Though it shouldn't be too long now before we start filming for KZhead again. In the meantime, we have been doing a weekly LIVE Q&A Broadcast on Facebook. It is on Wednesday's at 12:00 NOON Pacific Time on our Faceboobk Page facebook.com/polymerclay Hope to see you there!
I just watched ur video, 10 yrs after u posted it, it is still a great video. I love how easily u fix a common issue I know I have had more than once lol. Thank u for ur help
I ❤️ Color Mixing!!! Sometimes the colors are fun-ta-mental - terrific !
Green with 1/8 black was gorgeous! Yes please to colour mixing vids!
I love color mixing, I'm just terrible at creating palettes, that's why I love, love your palettes each month!
Pls continue with these color mixing tips and tecniques, it is so useful and interesting... Thank you for sharing with all of us!!!
Yes to more colour mixes please! Thanks Cindy
Color pallets make my head spin.... Definitely more please!
Please, please, please, Cindy! I can never learn enough of these color mixing tips and tricks! Bring it on - I’m like a sponge! Thank you for all that you do for us clayers!
I am new to polymer clay and I would love to see more color mixing videos. Your videos are so informative. Thank you.
an excellent method, especially for little test trials before jumping into a larger project - good one Cindy!
I am so terrible at color mixing/matching and I never knew about this trick! Thank you so much for sharing :D
What wonderful and detailed videos! These tips are incredibly helpful, many tutorials start from a place of competency that us beginners don’t have- and run into problems.
yes yes please more color mixing. That was great!
OMG! Just look at how the colors harmonize with each other, just by doing this little trick! Great! I would never have thought, to do that. Thanks so much, I loved it! Endless Possibilities WOW!
I'd love to see more color mixing tricks and tips!
Would love seeing more color blending tricks. This video was very helpful! Thanks!
More mixing colors would be great ,love watching you.
So nice of you to share your knowledge with others.
Color mixing for me is very intimidating for me I would love more videos like this. It was very helpful thank you Cindy.
Going to do a clay day with my Italian teacher and Im looking for beginner friendly tips to try and explain things for her. I remember watching this video years ago when you first put it out. Thanks so much for the tips.
Thank you so much. 8 years on your video is still helping people just like me 😍
Thank you so much for your kind words! I appreciate you taking the time to let us know that this video helped you.
That is awesome news Suguna Srinivas! Thank you so much for coming back and sharing your testing results!
I knew how to do this with a mixed media piece, but never thought to do it with clay. Thank you so much! Now I think I'll have a make more cohesive pieces with my sample pack!
Thank you Jeannie! For the color mixing compliment and the hair cut one. Such a nice thing to hear from you!
yes, more color mixing hacks! woo, woo!
Great Class! Even the grade school children can learn this 1 method concept. Now that's what I'm talking about
Im amazed by such a simple technique can change everything! Very helpful video Cindy!
When you added that black to that fuchsia I was wowed!
Thank you! It is really amazing how just a simple addition to a color really transforms it. Try adding a touch of black to yellow, and you'll get an amazing green as well! Have fun color mixing!
Yes I would love to see more color mixing videos!
Yes, more color mixing info please. So very helpful. Thank you.
Oh my goodness, yes! My husband has a hard time with color and more of these types of videos would really help him out. I make Kumihimo ropes (beaded or with specialty yarns) and he makes the Cabachons to compliment the colors I use. Sometimes we just can't get it to work the way we want it. This technique is just fantastic! What a great video! Please do make more videos showing other color combinations that turn out as fantastic as these. We appreciate your tutorials so very very much!
These ones came out so crisp and autumn like. I LOVE color mixing!
Thanks for saving the fushia for me...it looks beautiful with the gold added! Lyn
I'd love more color mixing tips, please. Thanks so much.
A Big YES, I would love more color blending ideas. Color blending is not my best suite. Learning how to create my own color line would be the icing on my cake. I'm a seed bead beader to match my bead collection would be awesome.
I loved this video. It was an "Aha" moment. I am brand-new to polymer clay and haven't even started my first project yet. I'm so glad I found your channel! I also subscribed 😊
Thank you Sandy!! I am so happy to hear that this concept was a good one for you. Thanks for commenting!
I would love to see more colour mixing tips because I'm definitely intimidated by my polymer clay. It just sits there but looks very sternly at me. :-D
What a great trick, Cindy! Thank you. The color palettes were lovely.
This is fabulous!! It simplifies color mixing and is totally versatile because any color can be added. PS - Love your haircut. You look so cute!!
Very helpful thanks.... This will be added to the knowledge you have passed along in our paid tutorials. Great short tip. You have helped me so much already with color, another great idea to round out my mixing abilities.
You make my clay worth while!! 🙏🙏🙏👍
You make everything possible and easy. Thank you
I have been looking for a formula for doing this rather than my usual hit and miss. It is such a simple idea but it took you to come up with it. Thank you so much! This is one of the most helpful and easy hints ever. You are my clay hero.
Please post more color mixing tips it's super helpful and fun to watch
Such a simple trick for color mixing, thank you! I'd love to see more of these videos.
I love this color mixing trick and would love to see more.
Yes, please make more videos like this. This is probably the most helpful and useful video that I have seen yet.
Do you have anything on your channel that discusses the use of transparent/translucent clay and mixing it with colors? If not, that would be helpful to learn. Thank you.
Yes, Cindy, please share more of the tricks you have - it'll be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.
I love your tutorials. Please do all that you can about color mixing it’s so helpful. Thank you.
I just love this video - my favorite so far because having the right color is the most important and fun element to work with clay. It will save so much time and clay for me. I usually bring the blouse that I want to make a necklace for and try to mix the colors by guess. Never thought that adding the same common color would do the trick. So fabulous! Thank you so much!
Loved the plus 1 color mixing. That actually helped me a lot!
This was so simple! I have played with polymer clay from time to time but your videos are so easy to follow and creative, I keep wishing I had more time to do more. I love the plus one idea especially with the gold added in for Fall!
I love your tutorial on Plus 1 color mixing. Thank you.☺
Would LOVE to see more about color cominations and color mixing! Thanks!
That was the most helpful polymer clay advice!!! Thank you.
Thank you so much! That means a lot for you to say that!
This is fascinating! I would love to see more videos for color mixing.
I love these tricks you show! Please keep on sharing!!🥰
I really appreciate your tutorials and thank you for your generosity in sharing them. I definitely would like more color mixing tips. Thank you Lissa
This is exactly what I needed to see, thank you SO much! I can't wait to try this. I would also love to see more videos on colour mixing. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
It is very simple and so universal. I did not expect to learn something from a video I was only curious about that I can use in makeup, a topic unrelated to the video. Thank you!
MIND. BLOWN.
I'd love to see more about color mixing! Not afraid of it at all, I actually love it, it's one of my favorite parts of working with clay. I'm a fiber artist and just starting with clay so I've worked a lot with color mixing with yarn and fiber.
Fantastic idea! Thanks, I love your tutorials. Can't wait to try it out.
Super helpful. Yes please do more. I'm always stumped for what colors go tog. Thanks
Yes. I'd love to see more color mixing tricks. You're the best! Thanks.
I think color mixing is the hardest for me. This helps alot. I've not done any of your recipes yet (although I have a ton) but I am rethinking some of my old mind tapes and this truly helps. Once again, thanks, Cindy.
Peg Carter Why have you not made any of the recipes? Pick one and make it today. You can do a tiny batch, just to see how it turns out. It will help you get over the hesitation of mixing colors.
OK. Right now I'm laboring over the peacock cane. As soon as it's done I'll make one of the recipes. I bought all the clay for a recipe but now I can't remember which one. Lol
Very informative...not afraid of mixing new colors...but a new way to make colors in the same value...thanks...
Yes please, more color mixing tips.
Great tut. I'd live to see more on color mixing
I'm just getting into polymer clay and these tutorials are AMAZING. Thank you thank you thank you!!!
Ur quick explanation just made me understand this stuff "as easy as that"! Seriously, I get you as a teacher much better than any others, so thank you Cindy! Yes, more please?
Thank you so much Becky! I appreciate your kind words! 💖💖💖
I would love to see more color mixing tutorials
I would love to see more on color mixing!
Yes, I would love to see you see more color videos.
One of my favorite premo colors is an odd one, ecru because when mixed with any color it tends to make a soothing shade of that color. I tend to like the calmer versions in a lot of art.
It would be amazing to see more of this coloring mix videos! Very helpful as always!
YES, this is all new to me and seeing the mixing is very helpful. Thank you
Yes! thank you! Ive always have problems with what colors match. More tuts pls!
Great tutorial! So informative, would love to see more on mixing colors. It looked so easy. Thanks
yes, I would like more of these...your tips and tricks are very helpful!! Thanks for putting so much time into these videos!
Such a fantastic and simple idea Cindy. Thanks for sharing this. It'll be a huge help to me.
Glad it was helpful!
this makes a lot of sense. it's sort of like the effect you get drawing or painting on a toned substrate rather than a white one.
Yes would love to see more of color mixing vids.
This is awesome! Thank you so much. Please more color mixing tricks.
Wow this is so helpful and easy. Not only has this worked for me in polymer clay, but some other art mediums as well. Getting colors to work together in any medium has been a big problem for me.
I have always purchased the colors I wanted or at least the colors closest to what I wanted. I am so thankful that you went through this! Many times we have made a piece of jewelry, and from my point of view, one or more of the colors would be just a bit off. This is an easy guarantee that the colors in my pieces will look great together! Thanks so much for sharing and inspiring!-- Leslie
You are very welcome creativepzazz I am glad this method for mixing polymer clay colors will help you! Thanks for commenting!
Yes I would love to see more color mix's. But I love all ur videos !!!
great tutorial - please make more. Looks good and you explain in simple, plain terms.
I'd really like more color mixing tips!
Yes, I would find more color mixing techniques very helpful, ty ❤️👌🏼
Interesting and helpful! .... and yes, would love to see more colour-mixing tips. Thanks!
I love all your videos and I especially found this one helpful. I've been very intimidated with color so I can't wait to try and experiment with this. Thank you so much!
Lovely! Great tutorial.
I am new to polymer clay and this was great information! Thank you so much. Yes, I would love to see more tips and tricks with color!
This was very helpful! I am just starting to work with clay and your information will make color combination much easier. Thank you!!!
Hi Kimberly G, thanks for your kind words! Glad you liked my Plus 1 color mixing technique.
Thank you so much for sharing this information. The concept of adding gold/black so that there is a commonality between the colours and then they go together is absolutely fascinating. I'm now even more excited to get started mixing my own colours. Thanks again :)
You are very welcome! Don't forget you can use any color as your Plus 1... so you have endless color possibilities!
Yes of course I would like to see more, thank you for sharing