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Color Mixing For Fun and Profit

Color Mixing For Fun and Profit As everyone learns in Elementary School, most colors are made by mixing different combinations of the primary colors which are Yellow, Red, and Blue. (Red, Green, and Blue are used when you are working with light instead of pigments.)

I thought I could show you how to make some pretty neat colors by mixing the Thinking Putty you already have. In the picture below you can see our equivalent of the three primary colors represented by Yellow, Red, and Lapis Thinking Putty.

We can quickly see that by mixing these colors with each other we get Green, Orange, and Purple. These are the secondary colors. Of course by mixing all the colors together we get a nice, ugly brown. This is called brown.

Since I use a specialized green pigment for the Electric Green that I sell, this mixed green is a unique color which you can tweak by adding more or less of the Yellow or Lapis. Combining my Blue Thinking Putty with Yellow also results in a different shade of Green.

In the picture to the right, you can see that I've mixed each of the Primary Colors to make Secondary Colors and then mixed each with Lustrous Bronze. The results create a highly marblized metallic putty with some extra flair. The Purple and Lustrous Bronze was my favorite from this experiment.

All of these combinations got me thinking (which happens from time to time, given the high levels of Thinking Putty in my bloodstream): to create the ULTIMATE THINKING PUTTY COLOR MIXING CHART: DELUXE EDITION. We will abbreviate the name of this chart and call it UTPCMCDE. Come to think of it, that's not much of an abbreviation.

I mixed each color with every other color that we sold (back in 2001 when this was made) except for Coral and White. I omitted them specifically because I couldn't get all the putty dots to fit in the picture. Perhaps a newer edition of the chart will list these colors.

After recovering from a color mixing frenzy I took a look at the chart to find some interesting combinations. These are combinations that you might want to try with your own, hard-earned Thinking Putty.

COOL NEW COLORS? There were some fairly promising results from the experiment, and I've listed the combinations below. Unfortunately the metallic and electrics just don't come across in pictures and you'll have to take my word for it that these colors are very cool. Also, keep in mind that computer monitors aren't all calibrated the same so many colors will look much lighter, darker, or different in real life.

Lapis + Scarlet = Scarlet + Gunmetal Graphite =

Orange + Yellow = Orange + Hot Pink =

Yellow + Electric Green = Electric Green + Shiny Silver =

Hot Pink + Brilliant Gold = Brilliant Gold + Lustrous Bronze =

Obviously, a lot of these possible colors are REALLY cool, but out of the 78 combinations I tried, I think you'll like these the best.

If you come up with your own interesting color combinations I would love to hear from you. Just send us an email!

Valentine's Day Color

Be My Valentine

Putty Creatures

Super Magnetic

Crystal Clears

Liquid Glass

Heat Sensitives

Glow in the Dark

Color Shifting Illusions

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