I am happy to announce I finally finished the revised edition to my Clay Color System tutorial. My original tutorial was first published 12 years ago (2011). It is my own concept that I had been using for several years before that.
My original Color System tutorial was first based on Kato clay. At that time, it was the only brand that was made in the true artist colors. Previous to that, Premo (Sculpey brand) also had the true artist colors, but made the huge mistake of discontinuing them. This created quite an uproar within the polymer clay artist community, so Sculpey decided to put back some of the colors into circulation -- but only the three primary colors -- Red, Yellow and Blue. When the Sculpey company did this, a lot of clay artists jumped ship and switched to Kato clay.
While I personally like working with Kato clay, many artists find it difficult to condition (it is very hard/firm) and many have issues with the smell. For me, it had become more difficult to obtain here in Canada as the shipping charges and extra import fees are horrendous. And in the last few years, other clay brands that are made in the true artist colors have become more widely available, like Cernit (Number One series) and Fimo Professional (Not Fimo soft).
I have tried Fimo Professional and find it quite nice to work with, however it does have it's issues. For instance I like to make impressions in my clay which requires a mold release. I generally prefer to use water instead of cornstarch. Fimo clay reacts to water and becomes sticky and gummy. If you would like to apply any type of powders to your textured clay, after using cornstarch as a mold release, any colored powders will not stick.
Since a year ago, I started experimenting with the
Cernit brand clay and discovered how much I like it. Not only are the colors true (Number One series) and vibrant, it is soft enough to work with without being too soft or sticky. I also have all the colors in the Metallic, Pearl and Translucent. Other than the Number One series, I love the Metallic the most. The colors are just so scrumptious! I am also intrigued with the Translucent as I have seen some amazing faux glass pieces created by other artists.
So in my last blog post, I announced that the Pantone color recipes would be the last I would be sharing with you here as I will be no longer using Kato clay. You might be wondering about what will be next. Any future recipes will be available in my
online store and I will be sharing here inspiration on using those new colors.
The new
Revised Edition of my Clay Color System was revamped to work with other brand clays besides Kato. It does not have all the extra color recipes provided in my Original Clay Color System that uses Kato clay but these recipes can be purchased separately or as an extra bonus. Many of these recipes are used as base colors to create the Pantone color recipes provided on this blog (see the link at the top of this page). This means you can still create the older color recipes provided here using other clay brands besides Kato, but the end results might not be the same.
So if you do not have my Clay Color System and would like to learn more about an easy way of mixing color, I have it on sale (30% off until the end of this week. To celebrate finishing my work, I decided to put
all my other tutorials on sale for 30% off as well (excluding my snap tutorial with the bonus Starter packs). No coupon code is necessary. The prices have already been reduced. The sale will end on midnight next Saturday, October 28.
* Also my preprinted color recipe cards will be available soon - as soon as my materials arrive. I will keep you up to date on this.
