Pantone Spring 2016 Fashion Colors Snorkel Blue and Limpet Shell

Pantone describes Snorkel Blue as marine inspired and from the navy family but with a happier more energetic context.  The name alone implies a relaxing vacation and encourages escape which is what I would love to do with all the snow around outside.  Limpet Shell is a shade of aqua and combines well with the Snorkel Blue.

I played around with my version of batik fabric in clay using these two colors to create a sculpted flower and some beads.

So here are the clay recipes for the Pantone Spring 2016 Fashion colors Limpet Shell and Snorkel Blue using Kato clay.

* Note:  These clay color recipes are created using Kato Polyclay.  Any of the base color "mixes" used are from myClay Color System.

Floral Batik Necklace

Here are more of our new batik style flowers in a necklace and now available at Chum 'N Luba's Unique Boutique here in Chase, B.C.

Batik Flowers for Spring

Here are some more batik style flowers in new color combinations in time for spring. The batik fabric-like pattern is created using a variation of mokume gane that I developed myself.  These flowers are made into buttons and finished in three different sizes as well as shawl sticks for the yarn and quilt shops.

Tie Dye Flowers

I have been experimenting with a new style of sculpted flowers that sort of have a tie dye, batik fabric or cloth look to them.  The brooch pendants below were my first experiments using cane slices from my "mini-mokume" that I share how to do in my Clay Color System tutorial.

These flower bead earrings were created using a different technique and in a combination of the Pantone spring 2013 colors Monaco Blue, African Violet and Tender Shoots.  I quite like the look of these and want to explore it a little further.