Sculpey Souffle New 2016 Colors My Thoughts
Video #742: There are four new beautiful Souffle colors from Polyform this year… Mocha, Guava, Cinnamon and Sage.
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IN THIS POST: — sculpey souffle — review — polyform — new colors — 2016 — mocha — guava — cinnamon — sage — premo sculpey — color theory — matte finish — suede finish — (Topics marked with an asterick* are discussed in the Comments Section below).
First I’ll show you the colors… then explain the qualities of Souffle clay… the color shifts when baking… how the colors fit into the existing color line… and my own personal thoughts on what Souffle colors I would like to see added in the future.
This video is kind of long, but there is a lot of good information, so I suggest you watch it from beginning to end.
In a nutshell…
I love the qualities of Souffle clay. It has a lovely micro suede type matte finish… has beautiful earthy colors… is a high quality all-purpose clay that is compatible with Premo Sculpey and bakes at the same temperature.
The 4 new colors are Mocha, Guava, Cinnamon and Sage.
Mocha is a soft Blue based pastel Brown that sits between the Latte and Cowboy on the color chart. When baked, the mocha darkens very slightly.
Guava is a light pink Coral that is a half shade between So 80’s and Mai Tai. It shifts from the more Pink color that it is raw, to a slightly darker and more Coral color when baked.
Cinnamon is a dark rusty Orange that is pretty much just a darker version of Pumpkin. When baked, the color shift is little to none.
And Sage is a dusty, Gray Blue Green in a medium value, quite similar to Pesto. When baked, it darkens so slightly that I really wouldn’t consider it a shift at all.
Although I really like the new colors, I feel that a couple of them were really too similar to what was already in the existing color line, and I would have chosen different colors first.
The next colors I would like to see added to the line are a true Blue… something darker, in the range of Ultramarine Blue that can be lightened with White. I’d also like to see another paler Yellow added, as well as a few light shades of Purple… perhaps a Lilac or Violet. Also, a bright yellow based Red, similar to a Cadmium Red would be wonderful to punch up the color line a bit and bring in a little more contrast.
All in all, I like it that Polyform is investing in the Souffle color line. In fact, just behind Premo, Souffle has become my second favorite clay line to work with.
00:00:03 –> 00:00:08 Hi guys, it’s Cindy Lietz your Polymer Clay Tutor, and today’s today’s PcT Product Demo,
00:00:08 –> 00:00:16 I’m going to show you how the brand new colors for Sculpey in the Souffle Clay line for 2016.
00:00:16 –> 00:00:19 Now the first thing I’m going to do is show you the colors, then I will talk a little
00:00:19 –> 00:00:25 bit about the qualities of Souffle Clay, and the color shift when it bakes, how it fits
00:00:25 –> 00:00:30 into the color line, of the other colors that they already have and what colors I think
00:00:30 –> 00:00:39 needs to be added to the line in the future. So here are the new colors here. They have
00:00:39 –> 00:00:44 four new ones, all kinda earthen toned colors like the rest of the souffle line. The first
00:00:44 –> 00:00:54 color is called Mocha, it is you know, kind of a creamy coffee kinda color which is well-suited
00:00:54 –> 00:00:59 for the name in a kind of a tan, neutral brown kind of color. The next color here is called
00:00:59 –> 00:01:10 Guava. It is a soft color that is sort of a cross between pink and coral. The next one
00:01:10 –> 00:01:18 is called Cinnamon and it’s a dark, rusty orange color. And the last new color is called
00:01:18 –> 00:01:26 Sage and it is a dusty gray green. These names are perfect this time. There’s a couple of
00:01:26 –> 00:01:30 names in the previous set of colors that I didn’t think were perfect but I think all
00:01:30 –> 00:01:36 of these names are perfect for their colors. Now, if you’re not familiar with Souffle clay,
00:01:36 –> 00:01:42 it is a beautiful clay to work with. It is a high-quality clay that is good for all-purpose
00:01:42 –> 00:01:50 things. It is within the same kinda round as a Premo Clay from Sculpey which is my favorite
00:01:50 –> 00:01:58 clay. I use Souffle a lot and the nice thing about it is that it has a beautiful matte
00:01:58 –> 00:02:06 finish to it. When you bake it up, there is a matte finish like I said that has kind of
00:02:06 –> 00:02:14 a micro suede kind of feel to it. It has–you can see the texture from certain angles and
00:02:14 –> 00:02:21 it is–it feels smooth to the touch, not a nap like thick velvet or anything but just
00:02:21 –> 00:02:29 like a nice little micro suede. It has the same–it has a very similar properties to
00:02:29 –> 00:02:36 Premo. In fact, I kind of feel like it’s the same clay as Premo that they’ve added some
00:02:36 –> 00:02:42 sort of light weight additive to it to make it matte. It’s actually a little bit lighter
00:02:42 –> 00:02:49 than the Premo, it’s got–the Souffle block here is actually the same size block as the
00:02:49 –> 00:02:55 Premo clay but the Premo weighs two ounces and the Souffle clay weighs 1.7 ounces so
00:02:55 –> 00:03:00 which is slightly lighter. It might make a difference if you’re making really large pieces
00:03:00 –> 00:03:07 but in general, it’s not a huge difference. It bakes at the same temperature as Premo
00:03:07 –> 00:03:18 so it bakes at 275 Fahrenheit or 130 Celsius and has–it’s smells the same, it feels pretty
00:03:18 –> 00:03:24 much the same other than the texture of it and when you sand, you can sand it, do all
00:03:24 –> 00:03:29 the same sort of techniques. The only technique you can’t do with Souffle that you can do
00:03:29 –> 00:03:35 with Premo is Mica Shift because the Souffle line doesn’t have any metallic or pearl colors
00:03:35 –> 00:03:43 in it but you can make beads, do Mokume Gane, you can make canes with it, you can do sculpting
00:03:43 –> 00:03:49 with it so pretty much anything that you would like to make with a nice matte finish. You
00:03:49 –> 00:03:53 can sand it and drill it and do all the typical things you can do with polymer clay but you
00:03:53 –> 00:03:59 can’t–there’s no point in sanding and buffing it, trying to get it to a high shine because
00:03:59 –> 00:04:04 at best, it’s just gonna come out to like a satin finish. But that can also be used
00:04:04 –> 00:04:13 as an advantage because you can have the–which means you don’t have to sand everything so
00:04:13 –> 00:04:16 if you’re sculpting something like a birdhouse bead or something like that you don’t wanna
00:04:16 –> 00:04:21 sand and buff, then the finish is beautiful without having to do anything to it so that’s
00:04:21 –> 00:04:27 one of its nice qualities. Also, because it is compatible with the Premo clay, you could
00:04:27 –> 00:04:32 put–and it bakes at the same temperature, you can put Souffle clay and Premo clay into
00:04:32 –> 00:04:37 the same project. So you can have those two clays in the same project even in something
00:04:37 –> 00:04:42 like a cane and you can play off the part that one is matte finish and one isn’t so
00:04:42 –> 00:04:48 you can get some interesting effects. So that’s kind of above the quality of the clay. Now,
00:04:48 –> 00:04:53 as far as when it’s baked, a couple of the colors do have a little bit of a color shift
00:04:53 –> 00:05:01 and I’ll show you that. Now, I’ve got on these little white sample cards here, I have baked
00:05:01 –> 00:05:07 polymer clay and then in front of them, I have the same color, only raw and I’ll show
00:05:07 –> 00:05:13 you the difference between the two. Now, with the Mocha, there’s not a huge difference but
00:05:13 –> 00:05:21 there is–when it does bake, it’s a little slightly darker but the color itself stays
00:05:21 –> 00:05:32 pretty much the same, it’s just slightly darker. With the guava, this color here is–when it’s
00:05:32 –> 00:05:39 raw, it’s slightly pinker and when it’s baked, it’s slightly darker and slightly more coral
00:05:39 –> 00:05:44 so it kinda shifts over to the coral side rather than the pink side once it’s baked.
00:05:44 –> 00:05:50 That’s probably the biggest shift I’ve seen with these new colors here. Well it is the
00:05:50 –> 00:05:55 biggest shift, the others are pretty minor. With Cinnamon, I see very little to almost
00:05:55 –> 00:06:02 no shift at all. It’s–it might get slightly darker but it’s really not very obvious at
00:06:02 –> 00:06:14 all. And with the Sage, it gets slightly darker but there again, it’s quite minimal when it’s
00:06:14 –> 00:06:22 baked. Now, I’ve got all the colors here lined out. Now, they’ve–what I’ve done is OK, I
00:06:22 –> 00:06:29 have these binders and I’ve got another video on it in the videos that we have on how to
00:06:29 –> 00:06:36 make like a sampler binder with all this–all the different clays. I’ve done this with the
00:06:36 –> 00:06:42 Souffle clay already and I’ve bumped out the spaces for where the new colors will go in.
00:06:42 –> 00:06:48 So I will add them into these pockets so you can see where I think they fit in the line.
00:06:48 –> 00:06:53 I’ve got Igloo, Poppy Seed, Concrete, Sand Castle, Latte and then the new Mocha will
00:06:53 –> 00:07:04 go right in here in this spot then I’ve got–it was easier to put in when I practiced. There
00:07:04 –> 00:07:14 we go, then I’ve got Cowboy, Turnip, Bourdeaux, Cherry Pie, So 80s, then the Guava, slip it
00:07:14 –> 00:07:25 here. Now this color is quite similar, I’ll talk about that in a minute. Then we’ve got
00:07:25 –> 00:07:42 Mai Tai, Pumpkin and the Cinnamon, put it here–Key Lime, Canary, Pistachio, and Sage
00:07:42 –> 00:07:50 and then the rest of the line, you’ve got Pesto, Jade, Sea Glass, Robins Egg, Lagoon,
00:07:50 –> 00:07:58 Blue Stone, and Royalty. Now, as far as the new colors go, they fit beautifully in the
00:07:58 –> 00:08:05 line and you can see it’s–they fit in there quite nicely. I think, now this is just strictly
00:08:05 –> 00:08:12 my opinion, I think that this particular color rainbow is missing a few steps and I would
00:08:12 –> 00:08:19 have added different colors first before some of these ones and let me just explain. OK,
00:08:19 –> 00:08:26 so here’s the Mocha in the line here, here’s all the neutrals. Latte and Sandcastle, we’ve
00:08:26 –> 00:08:31 already got a couple of tan colors. The nice thing about this Mocha color is that they
00:08:31 –> 00:08:37 have–it’s a little bit more blue-based than the Latte which is a little bit more yellow-based.
00:08:37 –> 00:08:44 So it is a really good addition to the line. But as far as adding more neutrals, I think
00:08:44 –> 00:08:52 we’re good for now. There’s other places I would add new colors but the–so that’s–we’ve
00:08:52 –> 00:08:57 got a pretty good representation of the neutrals now that the Mocha is in there. Now, as far
00:08:57 –> 00:09:06 as the reds go, there’s plenty of them, there’s Turnip, Bordeaux, Cherry Pie, So 80s, we’ve
00:09:06 –> 00:09:12 got some pinks. There’s an awful lot of pinks in this line and even though I love this color,
00:09:12 –> 00:09:19 guava, in fact this is almost identical color to my planner, it’s already here, I’ll just
00:09:19 –> 00:09:26 take the next color from here, just a second. Mai Tai which should be next in the row is
00:09:26 –> 00:09:33 really basically a half shade between So 80s and the Mai Tai color. So rather than have
00:09:33 –> 00:09:39 like a half shade difference, I would have added new colors in the line instead but it’s
00:09:39 –> 00:09:45 definitely a pretty color and it’s not gonna be an issue or anything. As long as they add
00:09:45 –> 00:09:52 some of these other colors that I suggested in the minute in the future. So the Mai Tai
00:09:52 –> 00:10:00 here has–I kinda got it in the orange row here. The new Cinnamon is a darker shade basically
00:10:00 –> 00:10:05 of the Pumpkin. It’s almost identical color, only just a lot darker. The nice thing about
00:10:05 –> 00:10:11 this new color though is just it does bring contrast in to the orange line, at least it’s
00:10:11 –> 00:10:17 darker and it has a little bit more contrast. When you’re making a lot of polymer clay canes
00:10:17 –> 00:10:21 and things, it’s nice to have colors that have more contrast in because if you have
00:10:21 –> 00:10:27 all the colors at the same value, you–then things can get a little lost in the design.
00:10:27 –> 00:10:33 Now, that’s another case here with the Sage. I love the Sage, it’s a beautiful, dusty,
00:10:33 –> 00:10:42 blue-based kinda Sage. And the Pesto next to it is quite yellow-based. There–these
00:10:42 –> 00:10:49 three greens, they’re very similar in value. I would like to see added to this line a nice,
00:10:49 –> 00:10:54 dark, dark green–one that you could have more contrast. They have a nice, bright Pistachio
00:10:54 –> 00:10:59 here, nicely bright green but there’s no dark green. There’s a lot of middle values here,
00:10:59 –> 00:11:05 a dark green like a Forest Green or an Evergreen kind of color would be really nicely added
00:11:05 –> 00:11:16 to this line. Another thing is that the blues–these blues are all kind of–this ones especially
00:11:16 –> 00:11:22 are all quite turquoise-y based and kind of teal-looking and then this blue here, Bluestone,
00:11:22 –> 00:11:29 is quite gray-looking. I would really like to see a blue–some blues added into this
00:11:29 –> 00:11:35 line that are a little bit more true blue, an ultra marine type of blue, maybe a dark
00:11:35 –> 00:11:40 blue that can be lightened a bit with white to bring in some more color but something
00:11:40 –> 00:11:44 with a little more contrast. We really have a lot of greeny blues here and they’re all
00:11:44 –> 00:11:50 kind of similar in value and then there really is only one purple, I would love to see a
00:11:50 –> 00:11:57 lot more purples in this line because there are so many beautiful purples. I guess you
00:11:57 –> 00:12:03 can call this one here, this Turnip here a purple. It’s kinda in the purple range but
00:12:03 –> 00:12:12 it’s a lot more red. I’d like to see some lavenders, there’s so many pale, fuchsias,
00:12:12 –> 00:12:17 and violets and all kinds of lovely colors, something light in the purple range would
00:12:17 –> 00:12:25 be lovely and more blues. Also, this rainbow is really missing yellows, all it has is this
00:12:25 –> 00:12:32 green-y, muddy, green color called–I’m putting it in with the yellows because it’s more yellow
00:12:32 –> 00:12:38 than these greens but it’s called Key Lime and there really is the one yellow, the Canary.
00:12:38 –> 00:12:48 I’d like to see a paler, softer yellow, to really round out this pallet. Now, the last
00:12:48 –> 00:12:56 color I’d like to see more is a red added that’s more like a brighter, more berry, not
00:12:56 –> 00:13:03 berry red but more like a cadmium kind of red–one that you would see out in the woods
00:13:03 –> 00:13:11 like in a holly bush or something like that. So, other than that, I would–so those are
00:13:11 –> 00:13:19 the colors. I got stuck there. I was all kinda lost in my color mixing thoughts. They are
00:13:19 –> 00:13:25 really beautiful colors but I do really love Souffle clay line, it’s a beautiful addition
00:13:25 –> 00:13:32 to have alongside with the Premo color line and these colors here are really quite nice
00:13:32 –> 00:13:38 and I hope that they bring in some few more colors next year into the line that round
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Hi Cindy
Many thanks for the take on Souffle clay. I need a non-sticky clay for a project I have in mind, would Souffle be suitable for this?
Thanks – Marion
This clay is interesting Marion… when it is super fresh it is pretty sticky but when it has firmed up a bit it isn’t very sticky at all. I would suggestion you get some and try it for your technique. If it is too fresh, leach it out a bit and it should work perfectly.
Thanks Cindy. I’ll do that and let you know.
Cindy,
When you mentioned about using Souffle with Premo in canes, and the difference in the way they sand and buff, does that mean that you could make a cane slice that would buff up shiny where the Premo product is and be slightly suede looking where the Souffle is? That could be VERY interesting.
Doreen
Yes I think you could get some very interesting results with doing just that! Would be cool to see if you could see a big difference, even if you used the same color. Like Using Black Premo and Poppy Seed (Black) Souffle. I would go try it right now if I weren’t so busy. Why don’t you try it Doreen and let us know how it worked?
What do you think about Pebeo Paints? I’d be interested in a review. I’ve been watching the British Jewellry Maker and their comments about Souffle were so different: no good for caning, too soft to sand, etc. Glad you were here to set me straight.
Hi Lynn, I have tested the Pebeo Fantasy paints and they work quite nicely. Here is the video on that…
Testing Pebeo Fantasy Paints On Souffle Polymer Clay
As far as using Souffle for caning… it is a little soft when fresh, so I can see how some people may say it is not good for caning, but I have made some great canes with it. If you find that the Souffle clay is too soft, you can always leach it out. And about it being too soft to sand, that doesn’t make any sense… unless they were trying to sand it raw… LOL
Hi Cindy, where did the search feature go? I can’t find it anywhere. Have I missed something here? Please advise.
It was a bug… finally figure out what was causing the issue… all fixed now :)
Thanks Doug, does the search engine cover topics video taped in the Studio Cam videos?
Not at this time Dixie Ann… but when the new site launches, I am working on adding that.
I agree with your comments about the colors being so similar. What about something more like Colbalt? Remeber th e outrage when they got ridog the Premo CoI wonder if they mix a bit of Ultra Lite into the recipes. I heard Souffle is Studio recipe in new colors and repackaged.
I am thinking it may be more an issue with the pigment costs or availability. To me it looks like they just mixed up some of the colors they had on hand and made new recipes… the lack of purples is what is making me think that. If you ever buy oil paints or high end acrylics you will see that purple is always more expensive than the other colors. Must be a harder pigment to collect/reproduce than some of the others. As far as it being a mix of Ultralight and Premo, that could very well be. If that is what they did to make the Studio by Sculpey line, then that is probably what they did here… especially since I think the Studio clay and the Souffle are the same (minus the Phthalates of course).
I’m really looking forward to playing around with the souffle clays. Just curious though, how similar is this product to the Studio by Sculpey line? Seems like they also had a suede-like look to them.
Thanks for the review Cindy!
If you want my honest opinion… I think it is the identical (minus the Phthalates) and different colors. I have compared them side by side and saw no difference. I do not have confirmation from Polyform on that though, so it is only a guess.
Thanks for the review of the new souffle colours these are quite lovely, but yes I agree with you about the yellows etc., Do they limit the number of new colours each year?
I don’t think there is any set rules as to what they release. Sometimes they release a lot of new stuff, sometimes just a little and sometimes nothing at all.I can’t say I have ever seen a pattern to what and how much they bring out.