{"id":2282,"date":"2011-07-18T14:55:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T07:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2012-01-17T14:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T07:11:33","slug":"new-polymer-primaries-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2011\/07\/new-polymer-primaries-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"New Polymer Primaries Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a>\"\"<\/a>The polymer clays that are readily available in\u00a0the big box\u00a0craft stores have\u00a0changed\u00a0since our book was published in 2009. In the past year Polyform discontinued Studio by Sculpey and\u00a0some key Premo colors while adding a few new Premo\u00a0colors. This\u00a0caused quite a controversy. Carol Simmons<\/a> has done some\u00a0detailed posts about this issue.<\/p>\n

I’ve started testing the new Premo clays and added the possible primary colors to the chart above. I’ve also\u00a0added a new category – package colors that have white – because I choose to use colors that are at full saturation and add white if I need it.<\/p>\n

I like the new color Pomegranate. Its a bully, just as strong as Cad Red, but more of a Cherry Red than an Orange. It mixes well and doesn’t darken in baking – a welcome addition to the Premo line up.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The most difficult colors to\u00a0live without\u00a0are the primaries Zinc Yellow and Cobalt Blue Hue.\u00a0 I\u00a0 prefer to\u00a0use single primaries for\u00a0demonstrating color\u00a0mixing and\u00a0without these two primaries I will need to go back to teaching a double primary system.\u00a0 With this in mind,\u00a0I discovered that Wasabi can\u00a0be used\u00a0as a cool yellow in a pinch. Even though it has a\u00a0little bit of both blue and white bias, it mixes colors\u00a0close to when I am using Zinc Yellow.<\/p>\n

In the photo I compare the results of mixing Pomegrante and Turquoise with 1\/2 of both Zinc and Wasabi yellows. The resulting colors are similar.\u00a0Wasabi red is slightly darker due to the minuscule amount of blue in Wasabi, and the Wasabi green is slightly lighter due to the small amount of white that lightens up the Wasabi.<\/p>\n

So as\u00a0odd as it seems, Wasabi can be used as a choice for a yellow primary along with Cadmium Yellow.\u00a0\u00a0They are not\u00a0as balanced as Zinc, but\u00a0they do\u00a0work. Unfortunately, there is nothing close\u00a0to Cobalt Blue.<\/p>\n

\"\"Many folks using Premo\u00a0have asked how to substitute for Zinc Yellow and Cobalt for the double primary exercises\u00a0in Chapter Four of the book if they don’t want to order the clay from one of the three mail-order\u00a0companies still carrying the discontinued colors.<\/p>\n

My first suggestion is\u00a0to use Wasabi and Cad Yellow, Turquoise and Ultramarine and Fuchsia and Pomegranate. \u00a0You can also try the exercise using another brand of clay – selecting two yellows, two blues and two magentas from the primaries shown in the chart. I’m in the process of moving my studio from the basement to the second floor. Once I get settled, and can find things again, I will put up some photos of the Premo tests.<\/p>\n

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The polymer clays that are readily available in\u00a0the big box\u00a0craft stores have\u00a0changed\u00a0since our book was published in 2009. In the past year Polyform discontinued Studio by Sculpey and\u00a0some key Premo colors while adding a few new Premo\u00a0colors. This\u00a0caused quite a controversy. Carol Simmons has done some\u00a0detailed posts about this issue. I’ve started testing the new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polymer-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}