Video #437: Do you know which one of these Premo Sculpey blues is stronger... Ultramarine or Cobalt? More Info: [ Ссылка ] Polymer Clay Tutor.

Topics Covered In This Video:

* As you're learning more about polymer clay color mixing, one of the things you are going to want to keep in mind, is the strength of the color.

* Not all colors in polymer clay are equal. Some are stronger, some are weaker.

* This is really similar when you are working with color mixing things like oil paints, artists acrylics and water color paints.

* I don't know if earth based pigments are actually used in polymer clay, but I can tell you that the Premo Sculpey colors at least have comparable properties to the artist colored paints which do use earth pigmentation.

* Today I am going to talk about the color strengths of two different blues in the Premo color line, Ultramarine Blue and Cobalt Blue.

* Ultramarine Blue is on the cool side of the color wheel, which means it leans toward the purple side of the wheel.

* Cobalt Blue is on the warm side, which means it leans toward the green side of the color wheel.

* When you look at the two colors side by side, you may think that the Ultramarine Blue is a stronger color, simply because it looks darker than the Cobalt Blue. But in fact the opposite it true. Cobalt is the stronger one.

* In today's video, I will show you how to do some simple mixing tests that will allow you to see better what I am talking about.

* As you will see by the mixed samples, Ultramarine is in fact half as strong as the Cobalt because it takes about twice as much Ultramarine to end up at a shade of blue that is roughly half way between the Cobalt and the Ultramarine. If this sounds confusing, the video will clear things up for you.

* So the lesson here is that if you are using these two blues for creating your own color mixes, always be a little less stingy with the Ultramarine and a little more careful with the Cobalt, than what you might expect.

* These differences in color saturations happen because of the many different colors (pigments) that are used in polymer clay. The more you experiment with 50/50 mixes, the more you will understand how each color behaves, and therefore, you will gain a much better understanding of their mixing properties

* As a final note, please note that although every brand of polymer clay behaves differently, the principles of experimenting with 50/50 color mixes will be helpful no matter which clay you choose to use.

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