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Quick questions about coloring on clay

WithLovefromMom — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:10:31 GMT

Hi!

I'm fairly new to polymer clay, but I've been enjoying experimenting with my large collection of rubber stamps to make pendants.

I really like the faux ceramic look and saw a tutorial somewhere that talked about mixing alcohol inks with liquid PC to get color. I tried some Adirondak inks, but I'm getting very strange results. When I mix the ink with the liquid Sculpey, all I get is brown or gray no matter what the color of the original ink. Any ideas as to why that's happening? What else can I mix in to get color?

What are other ways of coloring on the clay? I was thinking I'd like to try baking blank pendants and then stamping with ink onto the baked clay. Can I then paint on the surface with regular inks? Colored pencils? paints? or is it best to stick with tinted PC? What do I do to get these colors to set?

I know there are a few books out there about stamping on clay, but there's a waiting list at my local library for them, so until I get my hands on those pages, I thought I'd try here :)

Thanks!

Re: colors

Deleted User — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:39:13 GMT

'Bee I consider yellow and black in same category as green and red! AND Linelle you would be surprised how some "Fall" colors that bleed into another color..looks pinkish!! I cannot get away from pink!

colors

Deleted User — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:13:42 GMT

Something I just read in another thread (tumbler)...Sparklebee mentioned that she hoped her swap beads didn't turn green after tumbling or we may have to consider that a Fall color (something to that effect)...well it got me thinking..we all know the "traditional" colors of Fall...orange, yellow, reds like russet..brown I guess but I think what I am trying to say is that it's all perspective. Blue: there's nothing like a crisp blue Autumn sky...purple: love those pots of purple mums AND yes green!! Maine has green all year with its abundance of pines. When we get around to the holidays what colors will pass that test? Shoot me if I have to make something red and green!! Anyway I guess I am really trying to prepare you for my swap beads...so when you see them for the first time you don't say "Wha the??"