Maggie Maggio

Exploring Color in the 21st Century

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Color Scales for Artists – November 21st at OSA

With the help of generous support from Muse Art and Design, our local independently owned art supply store, I’ve spent the last year exploring color in traditional media – acrylic, oil, watercolor and gouache paint,  ink, colored pencil and pastel. As a result, I am now offering a workshop on making color scales in all […]

Color Scales Extravaganza

Do you want to do some color studies but just can’t find the time? Treat yourself to a day of color immersion as you learn how to make three simple variations of color scales. Easy to make color scales – sometimes called color strings – record the fullest range of colors possible between two selected colors. After […]

Color Scales and Documenting Mixes (p.70)

I recommend watching my videos before diving into making color scales and color scale triangles. Taking some time to make and document color mixes is the best way to learn how to mix colors instinctively.  Playing scales on the piano trains the ear, making color mixes trains the eye. Color scales are my favorite way […]

Color Scales Triangles Video

The first round of color scales I made used two primary colors, for example Red to Yellow.  It didn’t take long before I started making value scales – taking a color to a white and then taking a color to a black. After awhile, I started making color scales using complementary colors to find the earth colors and neutrals in […]

Mixing Color Scales Video

The idea for the Color Scales came when I was struggling to keep track of all the test mixing I was doing when I first started using polymer clay in the mid ’90’s.   I decided there had to be a better way to organize all the little bits of clay and tried all kinds of systems before […]

Color Scales Triangle Video

Over the years I’ve tried many different ways to mix the colors in the middle of a three primary triangle. Nothing seemed to work until I came up with what I call “Base Mixing.” Base Mixing is a two part process that starts with mixing a series of purple colors along the bottom of the […]

Playing with Color Scales

I’ve been busy working on the planning for the National Polymer Clay Guild Conference next February. The Request for Proposals deadline was last Tuesday and we have over 100 proposals to review! In the middle of all this Joey and I did manage to get one of the two videos we are working on ready […]

Color Scales Tutorial

Color scales are step-by-step mixes showing the range of colors that you get by mixing two colors in different proportions. You can use any two colors to make scales. The first one I did was black to white, then I tried red to yellow, yellow to blue and blue back to yellow to get the […]

Color Inspirations 2.0: Testing the New Metallics!

“Color Inspirations” is 10 years old in 2019! This seminal book came out in the summer of 2009 and over the years has become a classic reference for polymer artists and anyone interested in learning about color using polymer clay. If you have not had the chance to sit down and do the exercises and […]

3-IN-1 COLOR TOOL

An easy to use set of 24 color cards by quilt artist Joen Wolfram is based on the Ives color wheel.  The two-sided cards show scales in tints, shades and tones for each color. Includes CMYK and RGB formulas, plus Hex numbers for web site design.

Swatches, Scales and Triangles

Swatches, Scales and Triangles: Color Mixing Practice and Documentation Polymer Workshop Project:  Swatches, Scales, Triangles. Level: Basic polymer clay experience required This one-day workshop is your chance to practice color mixing while creating useful tools to help you make the colors you love. There are many different ways to keep track of color recipes.  We will practice […]

NanoColor & Lena

The scientists at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore have successfully encoded color information into nano-sized structures and in the process inadvertently broke the record for printing at the highest color resolution ever: 100,000 dots per inch. The image shown above is a greatly enlarged version of the actual print. The scale […]

Mastering Color Interactions

Choosing the right colors for your projects is critical since their relationship changes as colors are combined into a work of art. Optical blending – colors mixing in the eye – can either steal the light from your design or enhance its luminosity.  This is especially true when reducing canes in polymer clay, choosing weft […]

Collaborative Color

I recently decided to shift how I think about myself as an artist – from polymer artist who teaches color, to colorist and teacher of color who uses polymer clay as my medium for color explorations. Why? Because I want to focus on sharing my love of polymer clay and what I am learning about […]

Color Inspirations: Saturday School Blog Posts

Polymer Clay Color Inspirations came out in August of 2009 and in September I started a “Saturday School” with blog entries about doing the exercises in the book. These are copies of those entries. Supplies (p.10) Testing Colors (p.31) Value Sorting (p.32) Mixing Pivot Tiles (p.34) Pivot Beads (p.36) Color Inspiration Collage (p.44) Value Contrast (p.48) […]

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