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A last necessary mixing tip: for those who want actually good repeatable colour matches, you may’t get them by including dabs of this and smidges of that to at least one batch of artwork materials. Professionals measure portions and make a mixing line or “scale” between two beginning colours, pigments, glazes or no matter.
A mixing line is often stepped in geometric ratios the place every step is both half or double its neighbour. When dried or fired or baked, the ensuing collection is straightforward to match to a goal colour and gives a recipe for making any amount.
Disclosure: my spouse Joan has a stepped colour card system that she calls Polymer Clay Shade Logic. However this isn’t secret know-how: Ansel Adams taught the Zone System, Frank Reilly taught strings to generations of scholars that embrace authors Ralph Garafalo and Todd Casey, Maggie Maggio has a well-liked Smashing Shade scale system for polymer clay, and so forth. These professionals know for those who be taught to combine strains of colours with an understanding of hue, worth, and chroma you by no means get misplaced. It is like having your individual GPS for colour.