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Polymer Clay Tip of the Week
Color Mixing
February 7, 2004
Learning to use color theory in your designs is an important part of beadmaking. Here are some sites on color mixing recipes, to help you along your way.

Here is a color mixing chart from Fimo, it's a PDF file, print it out for future reference. There are 100 color recipes. Color Chart

Also check out these color recipes and guidelines. Color Theory and Recipes and Mixing Pearl and Metallic Colors

Experiment using the different types of clays together. Metallic and pearl colors can be used in canes next to regular colors for an interesting affect. Mixing colors with transparent clay offers another dimension to your canes. There are infinite color combinations once you start exploring these clays and mixing them together. Your color palette can be as unique as you are. Explore mixing colors and finding which combinations work best for your work.