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I\u00a0brought\u00a0copies of a\u00a0color mixing chart for Fimo that I was selling as a fundraiser for my daughter’s 6th grade class.<\/p>\nLindly Haunani and I\u00a0often tell the story of how we met. It was at the National Polymer Clay Guild retreat in the spring of ’95.<\/p>\n
I\u00a0brought\u00a0copies of a\u00a0color mixing chart for Fimo that I was selling as a fundraiser for my daughter’s 6th grade class.<\/p>\n
The kids\u00a0made all the mixes as part of a lesson I gave on color. This is just nine of the 21 “tiles” that they mixed. We made all the combinations of Fimo Yellow, Golden Yellow, Red, Magenta, Bordeaux, Blue, Light Turquoise and Navy.<\/p>\n
In return\u00a0for their collaborative help, I promised them all the proceeds from the sale. What did I get out of it?\u00a0 The original chart!![\"fimochart1995detail1.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/fimochart1995detail1.jpg\" "\\"fimochart1995detail1.jpg\\"")
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I made the tiles from gray clay and cut out the holes before baking them. I hadn’t figured out how to make color scales yet so each tile showed the 1\/2, 3\/4\u00a0and 7\/8 mixes between two colors\u00a0with each of those colors then mixed with 1\/2 and 3\/4 white. Here is\u00a0the tile with\u00a0Fimo Bordeaux mixed with Golden Yellow.<\/p>\n
Once we settled into our tables at the retreat it\u00a0only took a few minutes before someone said, “You have to meet Lindly. She loves mixing colors too.”<\/p>\n
And in the meantime someone said to Lindly, “You need to go see Margaret’s color\u00a0chart.”\u00a0(I was called Margaret way back then.)\u00a0<\/p>\n
We met in the middle of the room, color samples in hand. The rest is history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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