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Baking translucent polymer clay smell11/23/2023 You can try adding translucent, if the brand of translucent doesn’t tend to turn yellow or orange. ![]() You can add a lighter color, but it can change the hue, for example, adding cyan to violet or adding yellow to green. The easiest way to compensate for color shifting is to add a little white clay. White and translucent can turn a little gray, yellow or orange, depending upon brand. Red, orange and yellow generally didn’t have a problem. Turquoise, blue, violet and purple were the second worst for darkening when baked. Magenta and green were the worst for darkening when baked, across the board. Translucent Cernit was the second clearest of the brands tested. Opaque white stayed the whitest of all brands, regardless of baking duration. Fimo Pro is a firmer clay, though not as firm as Pardo.Ĭernit Number One colors shifted the most. Translucent does better when used in thin layers cured for the minimum time possible. White and translucent turn orangish when baked too much. Premo was generally the softest, stickiest brand.įimo Pro colors shifted quite a bit. The ultramarine and purple are quite dark. Translucent does better when used in thin layers cured for the minimum time possible. White stayed the whitest of all brands, regardless of baking duration, but unfortunately it broke. Premo did well for lack of color shifting. White tends to yellow the more it’s baked and translucent yellows a lot. Kato was next best for lack of color shifting. Pardo is the firmest clay I tested and needs gentle conditioning and handling. Pardo translucent is the clearest of all brands. White stayed very white and grayed only slightly when baked multiple times. Pardo colors stayed the truest when baked among all other brands. Soufflé is a softer clay, but holds its form and isn’t sticky. Instead they have a nice range of muted colors. Soufflé doesn’t offer the normal primary or secondary colors, translucent or metallics. Soufflé colors didn’t darken in the oven, which was amazing. Some brands have a small range of colors, others have a large range with glitter, glow-in-the-dark, inclusions, colored translucents, etc. ![]() I prefer to mix my own colors unless I need a large quantity of a color that’s available packaged. Primaries, secondaries, black, white, translucent, pearl and metallics are generally all I use. All were baked in two aluminum baking tins, one inverted as a lid with two small ceramic tiles inside.Īll brands, except Soufflé, offer quality primary and secondary colors. The other brands were baked in a preheated oven at the manufacturer’s recommended temperature for 30 minutes. See Double-Baking to Avoid Plaquing in Polymer Clay. Kato and Fimo were double-baked because that makes an improvement. In doing these color tests, I tried to bring out the best in each brand. I’ve written more detailed blog posts on each brand which include more color mixtures: I also wanted to learn which colors shift and how to compensate so hopefully I can avoid being surprised by the colors that come out of the oven. My goal was to educate myself on the colors in each brand. I find it helpful to see all of them in one photograph. More than one blue is needed with some brands, which is why there are eight colors for some and nine for others. I tried to compare apples to apples by using similar colors from each brand. ![]() Raw polymer clay colors are beautiful, but what really matters is what they look like after they’re baked.
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