Polyclay Addicts Anonymous

Color by COLOURlovers

I've been collecting clay colour recipes for quite a while now over at Cindy's site, mostly because some come in a package with the videos I subscribe to, and because some are free. Strangely, I'm yet to actually use them!

So many people seem to struggle with colour. Colour mixing gives them endless problems and produces great heaps of scrap "mud" clay and even if they get a colour they like by accident they have no idea what other colours to use with it.

It's not a problem I have really, I've always had good colour sense and find it easy to create whatever colour I want in clay - I'm very thankful for that ability, but it does tend to restrict me in that I stick to combinations I know work well and never experiment with new palettes.

This is where COLOURlovers comes in. Basically it's a site where people create colours and palettes to share with others, and it's full of the most gorgeous combinations. You can see a couple of mine on this post! I love to browse and "favourite" palettes to inspire me later when I want to stretch myself with something new, and those of you who are more "colour challenged" could use it to find colours that work well together.



Color by COLOURlovers

Have a play with it. You can even create a palette using a photo, the site sort of "grabs" colours from the pic and then you can choose which ones you want for your palette. Sort of like an automated version of the way Cindy creates her palettes, and good fun as well.

I'd love to see your favourite palettes!

Oh and by the way, I have created all of Cindy's palettes in COLOURlovers, as a convenient way of storing them for myself. I hope she doesn't mind, I just took the colours from the pictures on her site, and I've linked back to the original posts.