Test Results :: Butter Yellow

Effetre Butter Yellow (418) is a bright, sunshiny yellow that seems to have more than the usual amount of batch-to-batch variation. All of my Butter Yellow was from the same batch, but I've seen some new stuff that looks way more orange than what you see here.

Butter Yellow is very similar to Ivory in terms of its consistency and its reactions with other colours, although it is a bit stiffer than Ivory.

In this picture, you can see Butter Yellow's awesome sunflowery yellowness.  It doesn't change much when you reduce it, but this colour does seem to strike a little in the flame to become a deeper, warmer colour, and you can see that a little in the reduced, smaller spacer on the right.

Silver turns Butter Yellow a yucky brownish colour, and crusts on top of it similarly to how it behaves with Ivory.  When the silver is reduced and encased, it looks more or less the same except that the interesting bobbliness of the reaction is magnified under the clear layer.

Silver Glass on top of Butter Yellow is a bit of a wash.  I don't think I got great colour results from the reducing silver glass frit on the left because there's so much reaction, and while I got some nice colour in the TerraNova2 frit, the colours I got don't exactly complement the bright yellow. At least, not for me - you can make up your own mind.

Butter Yellow separates very slightly when used on top of Tuxedo.

Copper Green and Butter Yellow develop a reciprocal dark line reaction.  Copper Green goes a bit pinkish but doesn't develop the strong gunmetaly surface patina that it does when used by itself or with some other colours.

On top of Opal Yellow, Butter Yellow goes a bit dark at the edges, but when Opal Yellow is used on top of Butter Yellow, the dark line reaction is pinkish and much more pronounced.

On top of Ivory, Butter Yellow looks a bit darker but doesn't really do anything unexpected. However, when Ivory is used on top of Butter Yellow, it seems very translucent and I got some really interesting brightish yellow borders on my Ivory dots and stringer lines. The Ivory also spreads considerably on top of Butter Yellow.

Butter Yellow looks its most green when used on top of Peace (and probably White, too).  On top of Butter Yellow, Peace separated in a really interesting way and developed a cool yellow border. That's probably worth doing again.

Here are some beads made with Butter Yellow.

Test Results :: Marigold

CiM Marigold reminds me a lot of Effetre Butter Yellow, which is a particularly pretty variation of Effetre Yellow that doesn't have a lot of orange striation. Marigold is a bright, warm, happy colour.

Marigold also has a beautiful, soft, smooth consistency, is truly opaque, doesn't curdle or separate easily and is a little reactive.

Marigold reacts predictably with silver, in that the silver spreads out on top of it, turns the Marigold brown and turns brown itself. Silver tends to behave this way on top of all of the opaque yellow glasses I've tried. When the silver is reduced and encased, there are some faint streaks of blue in it, but apart from that it seems to just turn grey with a faint sheen.

My TerraNova2 frit on top of Marigold started to get some pretty nice colour in it. Around the frit, the silver glass creates a brown webby outline. This same brown ooze attacks the Marigold from the reduction frit in the bead on the right, but the reaction is more dispersed and engulfs the exposed surface of the Marigold. The reduction frit looks very interesting on top of Marigold, all of the different colours in my frit blend making themselves known, and I got good shine from reducing it.

 

Marigold is only moderately reactive, but there are a few reactions worth noting here:

• Tuxedo bleeds into Marigold. This is visible on both test beads.
• Marigold and Copper Green have a dark line reaction. Also, the Copper Green gets darker and sort of shiny.
• Opal Yellow and Marigold have a dark line reaction.
• When Ivory is used on top of Marigold, a bright yellow line forms around the Ivory, like the Marigold has uniformly bled into it all the way around the dots and stringer lines.
• When Peace is used on top of Marigold, the same bright yellow line forms, and in addition the Peace seems to turn sort of translucent and almost look like it's set into the bead like a groove.

I didn't make anything fun with Marigold yet, but once I do I will be back to update this post.  I think that out of all the yellows I've tested, this might be my favourite one (although I am awfully fond of Hollandaise as well).