Pantone Colours - Fall 2013

I had so much fun with this with the Spring palette, that I've decided to give it a shot again for the Fall one.

So, here we have the women's palette on top and the men's palette on the bottom. The only colour that is different between the two, apart from the order the colours are shown in, is the 'pink' which is noticeably purpler in the men's palette (Beaujolais vs. Vivacious).

The only colour in the fall palette that was also in the spring palette is that darned Emerald colour. The one colour I wasn't super-fond of in the Spring palette just won't die.

Matching 104 COE glass colours to some of the colours in this palette is a bit of a challenge, but I've done my best below. I'll continue to think about it and come back here to update anything that occurs to me over the next little while.

Samba
EFF Purple Red
CiM Valentine (A little dark, maybe not quite purple enough)
EFF Spanish Leather (a little on the orange side maybe)

Koi
EFF Striking Orange Transparent
CiM Phoenix
EFF Light Zucca (this is streaky, and will end up having yellow in it though)

Linden Green
EFF Olive Transparent (also called Envy - this might be a little dark, but it's close)
CiM Gooseberry (limited run)
EFF Spring Willow
CiM Mojito
LAU Thüringen Herb (not currently available)
EFF Pale Green Apple

Deep Lichen Green
LAU Thüringen Forest (This is a pale transparent, but the hue is about right)
KUG Isar Blue (This is not as dark either, but in the right ballpark)
EFF Dark Steel Grey (Especially over Ivory)
EFF Chocolotta Verde (On the brown side, but closer than a lot of other colours)
LAU Olive (Not quite dark enough or grey enough, but close)
CiM Dried Sage (limited run)

Emerald
CiM Sherwood
CiM Moana (limited run)
CiM Sea Foam (limited run)
EFF Light Teal Transparent
CiM Galapagos (limited run)
EFF Petroleum Green

Mykonos Blue
EFF Earth (This gets streaks of turquoise in it which aren't, strictly speaking, in the palette)
REI Iris Dense Blue (a little dark, but as I said, this is kinda hard!)
CiM Electric Avenue (a little green)
LAU Steel Blue (a lot dark really, but this is a seriously hard colour to match)
CiM Leaky Pen (thinned out, on top of lighter colours, this is very close)
REI Mystic Blue

Acai
EFF Dark Violet Transparent
EFF Light Violet Transparent
CiM Thai Orchid

Beaujolais
CiM Simply Berry
CiM Mulberry (limited run)
EFF Dark Purple Transparent (also Medium, Light and Pale for the full saturation spectrum)

There's a lot of this colour in TerraNova2/2.1 depending on how much you strike it. Actually, TerraNova2/2.1 probably also brings us Acai and Mykonos Blue. A lot of the striking silver glasses will strike with colours falling into this palette. TAG Fire Lotus also springs to mind as another that would probably contain Mykonos Blue, Acai, Beaujolais and even Vivacious if you're really sweet to it.

Vivacious
EFF Dark Pink (no matter which batch, it won't be dark enough, but I can't think of any other opaque that will work here)
EFF Rubino Oro
CiM Cranberry
REI Pink Lady

Turbulence
VET Medium Grey
CiM Charcoal (limited run)

Carafe
LAU Cocoa
EFF Oliva Nera
CiM Adamantium (a little on the grey side, but what the heck)
CiM Truffle (limited run)
EFF Dark Walnut

Test Results :: Laguna

1 - Plain, 2 - Plain (reduced), 3 - w/ Silver Leaf, 4 - w/ Silver Leaf (reduced & encased), 5 - w/ Silver Glass Frit (reduced), 6 - w/ TerraNova2 Frit, 7 & 8 - w/ Tuxedo, Copper Green, Opal Yellow, Ivory and Peace

CiM Laguna is both darker and bluer than CiM Mermaid, and is very reminiscent of the beautiful Mermaid Unique #1, although this colour has more interesting reactions with silver. If you liked Mermaid Unique #1, you are going to love this colour.

Like the vast majority of CiM Opaques, Laguna is stiff but creamy and is somewhat streaky. It's nice glass to work with, and the colour is to die for!

In the bead on the left, the silver leaf has melted down and dispersed almost completely. It has left a faint yellowish residue on the bead, but it's not very visible. The interesting thing about both of these beads is how much streakier the glass is under where the silver was put down.

In the bead on the right, I reduced and encased the silver leaf and boy, is it ever yellow. Mustard is the descriptor that comes to mind. Very neat, but it's not very often that I feel compelled to use teal with mustard yellow. This yellow thing happened with Celadon, too, if I recall correctly. Oddly enough, I didn't really get this reaction so much with either Mermaid or Mermaid Unique #1.

This colour is gorgeous with striking silver glass -- I got beautiful colours from my TerraNova2 frit. The reducing silver glass frit also behaved nicely on top of it, however the colours sort of blend in with the Laguna background, so it doesn't really stand out.

There isn't really very much to report here in terms of reactions. The colours all behave slightly strangely on top of Mermaid, but not really weirdly enough that I have useful words to describe the behaviour. The reactions that really jump out at me are the strange way that Copper Green separates on top of Laguna, and the vivid dark line that appears around it when it's used on top of Ivory.

Here are some fun beads with Laguna. The goddess is solid Laguna, and the Shroomery and Extraposy both have Laguna in some of their twisted canes.

  

Test Results :: Apple Green

1 - Plain, 2 - Plain (reduced), 3 - w/ Silver Leaf, 4 - w/ Silver Leaf (reduced & encased), 5 - w/ Silver Glass Frit (reduced), 6 - w/ TerraNova2 Frit, 7 & 8 - w/ Tuxedo, Copper Green, Opal Yellow, Ivory & Peace

Lauscha Apple Green (Green Apple?) is a pretty nice colour, but sadly, it's another colour in our 104 palette that doesn't really like to be encased. This is the first Lauscha colour I've had this problem with, and I am pretty sad about it. If you look back through the rest of my Lauscha tests, you'll see that I haven't had any issues at all with Cocoa, Olive, Thüringen Herb, Dusty Lilac, Faded Rose, Orchid, Latte Macchiato, Peach, Nuclear Brownie (Buckhorn w/ Silver) or Steel Blue.

This colour is so reactive and vibrant, though, that even not being able to encase it doesn't put me off it completely. Like a lot of the Lauscha opaque colours, Apple Green is actually more like a superdense translucent colour. In thin layers, you can sort of see through it. Also like a lot of the other Lauscha opaque colours, Apple Green is quite reactive and likes to thin out and spread on top of colours like Peace and Ivory.

Silver leaf on top of Apple Green sort of clings to the surface as a lacy, grey film. When the silver is reduced and encased, it forms a more solid whitish blanket over the surface of the Apple Green. However, about a week after I made the bead on the right, unpleasant spiderwebby cracks started to develop in it.

Silver glass develops colour well on top of Apple Green. My reduction frit got great colour on top of Apple Green, and I think the TerraNova2 frit has great potential on top of it as well.

Apple Green seems to be a fairly reactive colour. I've gotten reactions here in these test beads with every other colour except for Tuxedo.

On top of Copper Green, Apple Green develops a light outline, which I think is actually the Copper Green showing pale right next to the Apple Green. You can sort of see, in the bead on the left, how there is a thin band of turquoise surrounding the Apple Green and then a much darker turquoise in between the dots and stringer lines. This is because the Copper Green has separated. On top of Apple Green, Copper Green develops a darker outline, and looks very concentrated, dark and teal.

Apple Green also makes Opal Yellow, Ivory and Peace separate. This reaction is much more pronounced in Opal Yellow, but is visible in Peace and with Ivory to a lesser degree.

I've made some beads with Apple Green, but it was quite a while ago and I'm not really sure where I've put them. Things will be back to normal here in a few weeks and I'll work on getting some newer results posted. I have some more of the new CiM Limited Runs ready to photograph, as well as test beads for Opal Yellow, Copper Green and CiM Phoenix.