DIY Gradient Wood Tasting Spoon Pendant Light – Part 2 – Mixing Paint For A Rainbow Gradient

Right here’s a have a look at my favourite piece of artwork that I’ve ever made. I made this out of over 800 tasting spoon bowls after chopping the handles off.

I shared Half 1 of this gradient pendant gentle mission some time again. I constructed the body for it out of 15 lampshade rings, beading wire, and screw-on crimp beads.

This gentle will take much more tasting spoon bowls than the art work did, so I’ve been tackling these as I’ve time. I have already got all the handles reduce off of all the spoons that I’ll want, so I’ve been taking an hour right here and there to sand the spoon bowls to prep them for primer and paint.

I had bought a number of colours to make use of on my pendant gentle, and I wanted to make use of these few paints to create a 15-color rainbow gradient for the pendant gentle. I bought six colours, all Americana model of craft paint: Tuscan Crimson, Royal Fuchsia, Cadmium Yellow, Hauser Gentle Inexperienced, Peacock Teal, and Purple Pizzazz. Once I bought all of them lined up, I noticed that I had forgotten orange, so I went into my stash of craft paint and grabbed a FolkArt Pumpkin to fill in that hole.

Since I want 15 colours for my pendant gentle, I lined up 15 little cups for paint.

After which I added the seven colours I needed to each different cup.

After which I began on the enjoyable half — mixing the paint to create the gradient from one coloration to the subsequent. To do that, I combined equal components of every coloration within the empty cup between these colours. For instance, within the second cup, I combined equal components of Tuscan Crimson and Royal Fuchsia.

I continued this course of till I had all the empty cups crammed. For the 2 final empty cups, I principally circled again to the crimson. So the primary one was the purple (which I lightened with white) with a tiny little bit of crimson added. The final cup was the purple, somewhat white, and much more crimson added.

With all 15 cups crammed, I used to be prepared to check out the gradient. Right here’s the way it seemed.

It was an excellent begin, however there have been some apparent issues. To my eye, that third coloration stood out like a sore thumb. I made a decision to get rid of the pure coloration altogether, however preserve it for mixing in with the neighboring colours. The yellow seemed too vivid. The transition between the yellow-green and the inexperienced seemed too drastic. Identical with the transition between the turquoise and teal colours. And that final coloration seemed fully misplaced.

So I bought to mixing once more. I eliminated that third paint coloration, however combined in a little bit of it with the neighboring colours to easy out that transition. I did extra mixing to easy out these different transitions with the yellows and greens. I added a contact of inexperienced and white to the yellow to tone it down. After which I eliminated that final bothersome coloration, and simply combined one thing fully new, leaving out the crimson altogether.

This second try was undoubtedly higher, nevertheless it nonetheless had some issues. The primary crimson appeared too darkish. The transition between the coral/pink coloration and the orange was too drastic. And the transition between the turquoise, teal, and purple wasn’t working for me. And eventually, that final coloration didn’t appear a lot totally different from the one subsequent to it.

So on my third try, I softened the primary crimson with a little bit of white and only a contact of that fuchsia that I eliminated entrance the lineup. To melt the transition between the coral/pink and the orange, I combined a bit extra orange into the coral/pink, and I combined a little bit of the pink into the orange. After which I I smoothed out the transition in these final colours by including extra teal to the purple, and including some darkish blue (from my stash) and crimson to the final coloration to make a darker eggplant coloration.