Forest Landscape Color Palette-039 (Premo)
Includes 4 Premo Sculpey Color Recipes: —Wilderness — Boston Fern — Ancient Forest — Ridge View.
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** This post is an introduction to one of our paid color palettes.
Perched high upon a rocky ridge, an ancient forest landscape spreads out in the valley below. Encrusted with dry alpine moss, the old weather beaten trees stand proudly amongst the smaller, younger seedlings that make up the underbrush.
As a polymer clay artist, you can never have too many color recipes for greens. So when I saw Doug’s photo of this forest valley landscape, with its rich variety of greens ranging from a dark Olive Green, to a soft Sage, I knew it would make the prefect palette for Polymer Clay Color recipes.
Wilderness is the deep Olive Green cast of the Golden Cedar Trees in the valley below. Boston Fern is the soft pale Green of the grasses and the ferns covering the forest floor. Ancient Forest is the dusty Sage Green of the alpine mosses, dripping off the older, more weather beaten trees. Ridge View is the smoky Gray Blue of the outcropping of rocks on the top of the ridge.
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I love how you share these photos that give you your inspiration.
Illaya B
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I enjoy all your colors you have come up with. Thank goodness you do not mind sharing your color mixtures. Thank-you Cindy.
Lynn W
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I don’t have too many colors mixed up as yet, but am going to do as many of the recipes as possible and make myself the color samples to attach to the cards. That will make it so much easier to choose my colors. Warm regards.
Cheryl H
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Geez, Cindy, it never ends, does it? And it hurts all of us in one way or another. They’re either looking to take the credit for your work or they’re cyber-vandals, making a mess of whatever they can.
Anyway, I love this palette. More and more I’m finding that I love muted pastels. I guess it’s because they’re soft and soothing, especially the blues and greens.
Thank you Phaedrakat (and everyone else that has chimed in on this issue) for your support. Yes… having to deal with online theft of our content most certainly adds new challenges to our already hectic schedule. But as Doug constantly reminds me, at least it means we are doing something worthy of being targeted like that. He says to take it as a compliment… :-)
So… based on this positive approach to viewing the negatives, I should let everyone know that we have recently been receiving even more compliments on other fronts too. Someone else started to upload bootlegged versions of the full tutorial videos into their YouTube channel. Thankfully, a vigilant member noticed what was happening right away, and Doug was able to have the videos taken down within 24 hours. Big thanks to the compliance staff at YouTube for their quick response. I was really impressed how fast they were able to shut down this person.
If you guys would all continue to keep an eye out for other suspicious compliments, and let us know about them right away, that would be greatly appreciated!
Lovely colors, Cindy! You are so wonderful, providing these beautiful palettes for us! And this one is a B-series, meaning you give it to us all (and anyone who signs up for your newsletter) for FREE! You are so generous with everything, which makes it even worse that someone stole from you…
It upsets & angers me that someone posted links to your B-series recipes…those thieves should be severely punished for the illegal posting! That was the last thing you guys needed…especially after a week away, with (no doubt) a bunch of emails & stuff piled up & awaiting your return. It breaks my heart that people would hurt such good people like you & Doug. I promise to keep my eyes peeled when I’m on the web — if I see anything that looks like it belongs to you two I will report it immediately! I adore you guys too much to see you hurt & your work ripped off in this way.
It’s upsetting…I don’t know which is worse — the theft of your work, or of your time? Both are precious! Your work is obviously incredibly important, but you two work so hard — your time is quite valuable! All the extra work you had to do, like reporting the crime (with the hassle of dealing with who-knows-how-many people/providers,) handling tons of emails/answering “what happened?” questions, and then having to move the recipes…it’s so unfair! You guys don’t deserve this.
I wish you guys the best — I hope you’re able to get caught up on all of the emails and other business, and I hope & pray that the internet thieves leave you alone…it would be lovely if you could catch your breath for once! Also, I know it’s my responsibility to save my free recipes each Friday…right away. Good luck, you two! ~Kat
Pretty, pretty greens… Beautiful color inspiration – as usual..!!
Peace, Love, & Clay,
~Lisa :)
@DMC: Usually I roll each of the ingredient colours to the same thickness on my pasta machine, pick a cutter to represent a “part”, and then cut however many parts I need out of each colour sheet. If I want to make up a lot of the colour, or if the recipe has a small number of total parts, I use a large cutter; if I only want a small amount of the final colour, or if the recipe has a zillion parts in total, I use a small cutter.
I also like to multiply all the quantities out to whole numbers of parts because it’s always slightly dodgey using fractions of parts (at least by my standards!). So for your example, I wouldn’t cut 14 parts, 1 part, 1/2 a part and 1/4 of a part, but would cut 56 parts, 4 parts, 2 parts and 1 part (i.e. I multiplied each number by four to get eliminate all the fractional parts).
(NB: If you are going to cut fractional parts, it’s best to use a square or rectangular cutter because it’s less inaccurate to cut diagonally from one corner to the opposite corner, than to try to eyeball the exact centreline for a circle or similar shape that doesn’t have built-in alignment points. Just be aware that some cutters are slightly out of true, or have one side kinked-in a bit or with an effective tiny cut-out from where the metal overlaps, so your portions probably still won’t be quite the same.)
@Sue F:
Thanks so much Sue for taking the time to help me with my question. You had many good suggestions. And you know, I never thought of raising the fractions up to whole numbers, that never entered my mind.
I have copied and filed your 3 helpful paragraphs of information,
Deeply appreciated,
DMc
Hello Everyone,
I have a question: Please give me your suggestions on the way you prefer to measure your clay recipes accurately. What method and or device works best for you? It gets confusing for me when it is a recipe similar to . . . 14 parts of one color, 1 part of one color, 1/2 of one color, and 1/4 of another color.
Thanks for your help on this,
DMc
Oh, I love the muted greens, fantastic.
Another great palette, love those greens.
GREAT IDEAS AND TIPS!
You’re absolutely right, Cindy – you never can have too many recipes for green! Such a wonderful color!
Love these color!!! So yummy and soft…. I just want to curl up with them and a cup of coffee and read a book on the couch…. is that crazy???