Pantone Spring 2014 Fashion Color Placid Blue

The Pantone Spring 2014 fashion color Placid Blue is a soft pastel that is a wonderful compliment to the strong and bold Dazzling Blue.  Pantone describes it as a picture perfect, tranquil and reassuring sky and induces a sense of peaceful calmness.  This shade of blue can also be used as a neutral so it could be combined with darker colors when creating a skinner blend or working with a mokume gane technique.  I didn't have any time to play with my clay colors yesterday so hopefully I will today and have more ideas to share with you later.

So here is the clay color recipe

using Kato polyclay:

* The Dark Blue # 9-2 and White Mix # 1-2 are base mix clay recipes found in my Color System tutorial which is available in our Etsy shop (as an instant download) or in our online store (which will be e-mailed within 24 hours).