Mini Food : Demos
Color Mixing for Mini Food: Oranges
jude: Okie.
Fearless Leader: I'll take questions though
bonsaikathy: it took me forever to take a pic and send it through to
the pic list, but I took both sides
Fearless Leader: LOL
bonsaikathy: So I missed all the cutting but it looks so delicious
Fearless Leader: Orange you going to axe me a question, Mitch?
frogger70301: For the outer layer what colors did you use?
bonsaikathy: haha
frogger70301: had to edit.
Fearless Leader: got an orange in the house?
Fearless Leader: real orange?
Fearless Leader: any one, not just Mitch
frogger70301: nope.
jude: Nope, no oranges here.
Fearless Leader: let me get one from the Fridge
frogger70301: It looks like Ecru, oraNGE AND ECRU/WHITE FROM THE TUTE
ON THE SITE.
frogger70301: Whoa, Caps lock. Sorry about that.
jude: Looks like bread dough rising. What is that?
bonsaikathy: orange
jude: Yes, there's the orange.
Fearless Leader: now you all tell me
Fearless Leader: what colors are in the peel alone?
bonsaikathy: off white, orange, tad of yellow maybe
jude: I dunno. I plead innocent. I wasn't there.
Fearless Leader: we got to please our eyeballs
Fearless Leader: so I don't give hard and fast mix ratios
Fearless Leader: I say look at an orange peel
Fearless Leader: start mixing
Fearless Leader: a lighter yellow for the inner pith
Fearless Leader: it could go out as a blend to the next color
Fearless Leader: a mid range orange
Fearless Leader: but why bother
Fearless Leader: if we're going to reduce to microscopic size anyway
Fearless Leader: that work would be wasted
Fearless Leader: leave your blends for bigger stuff
bonsaikathy: true
jude: Right, I agree.
Fearless Leader: so took three layers
Fearless Leader: picked the colors arbitrarily
Fearless Leader: went from darker orange
Fearless Leader: lightened that up
Fearless Leader: used some of that
Fearless Leader: lightened a bit of the middle orange
Fearless Leader: and I had three colors
Fearless Leader: no one is going to check for exact for it's too small
Fearless Leader: really
Fearless Leader: and folks are easily pleased
Fearless Leader: with just layering three sheets
Fearless Leader: and pressing them all at the thickest setting on the
pasta press
Fearless Leader: are you with me here?
frogger70301: yeah.
sew_short: yep
Fearless Leader: so we use this three layered sheet
Fearless Leader: to go around each orange wedge
Fearless Leader: reduce
Fearless Leader: then add this three colored sheet around all of that
Fearless Leader: what's inside won't be as thick as this last peel
Fearless Leader: for it's been reduced
Fearless Leader: the orange of the layered sheets will meld with the
orange of the segment wedge
Fearless Leader: we see pith only
Fearless Leader: I do it this way because it's easier
Fearless Leader: than having one sheet for pith
Fearless Leader: and it's narrow and hard to handle
Fearless Leader: bah
frogger70301: ok, gotcha.
Fearless Leader: use the same peel for the pith as the peeling just
reduce the cane
jude: Right.
Fearless Leader: and then put the outer peel on it
Fearless Leader: ok
Fearless Leader: now
Fearless Leader: in your mind's eye
Fearless Leader: change the color
Fearless Leader: from orange
Fearless Leader: to different shades of yellow
Fearless Leader: for a better lemon
Fearless Leader: three colors of green for the better lime
Fearless Leader: take your translucent to a new area and do ruby pink
grapefruit
Fearless Leader: practice larger citrus when you're new to this
Fearless Leader: and grapefruit is a great thing on the mini breakfast
tray
frogger70301: ok, to do those layers, would I start with the first mix
with the 8 trans to 1 orange/yellow/green?
Fearless Leader: I'd start with yellow
Fearless Leader: and take a measure
Fearless Leader: and add an equal measure of red
Fearless Leader: have your base line orange be exactly half and half
frogger70301: did that.
Fearless Leader: do that to all your secondary colors for a base line
Fearless Leader: ok
Fearless Leader: you got the url for the orange mix page?
Fearless Leader: or shall I get it?
Fearless Leader: brb
frogger70301: I almost got it memorized.
Fearless Leader:
Biz-Archive/food/Citrus/2002-orange-mix.htm
frogger70301: Got my seven little mixes right in front of me.
Fearless Leader: please open that page and I'll explain while you can
see it
frogger70301: I got that part done.
Fearless Leader: say when
teri56: got it
chelyha: Hey folks, I gotta bail. I'm sanding beads, I'll see you all
lata!
Fearless Leader: ciao
teri56: byee
frogger70301: bye, honey.
Fearless Leader: now I'd love to be able to tell you
chelyha: Have a nice nite all
chelyha left the room
Fearless Leader: one part this and "x" amount of that
Fearless Leader: but that's not how I mix things
Fearless Leader: I get my base line orange first
Fearless Leader: take a measure of that
Fearless Leader: and add an exact measure of translucent
Fearless Leader: it's to control and follow my mix that I do it this
way
Fearless Leader: then the resulting mix of the orange and translucent
Fearless Leader: is like dilution one, or something
Fearless Leader: then take a measure of that first added trans mix
Fearless Leader: and add an equal measure of translucent
Fearless Leader: the result will be dilution two
Fearless Leader: take a bit of that, add equal amounts of trans
Fearless Leader: that's how I make the steps on this page
Fearless Leader: that's the only trail of bread crumbs I could do for
me to find my way to the color I wanted
Fearless Leader: now someone else can do the math
Fearless Leader: I don't think in that direction too much
Fearless Leader: so I mix it this way for I have use for all levels of
saturation
Fearless Leader: of the orange
Fearless Leader: for juice at the lightest
Fearless Leader: for the meat of oranges, which I would use as the
outer peel as well
Fearless Leader: against the yellow inner peeling it goes opaque
Fearless Leader: less translucent for the light is blocked by those
lighter layers
Fearless Leader: does that make sense?
sew_short: yes
teri56: yep
Fearless Leader: my doing the measure plus routine
Fearless Leader: means it doesn't matter what size I'm working with
Fearless Leader: what I add to it is equal in weight or volume
Fearless Leader: so a booger
Fearless Leader: or a bowling ball
Fearless Leader: I'll find my color this way
Fearless Leader: any other color questions since we're on this thread?
Fearless Leader: it's a good thing to think about, it give you a lot
of room
Fearless Leader: to create
Fearless Leader: what you want if you get your color mixing in hand
sew_short: Would we do the same theory for lemons, limes, etc?
Fearless Leader: sure do, Kay
Fearless Leader: and anything else that has a three colored peel
Fearless Leader: for apples, one maybe two layers for peel
Fearless Leader: thin thin thin
frogger70301: So I could take any of the trans mixes that pleases me
to use in the outer layer.
teri56: I used the same method for the blue citrus cane
Fearless Leader: apples can have a nice marbled surround sheet
Fearless Leader: yes
Fearless Leader: Yes, Mitch
sew_short: Oh Hush - I don't know marbled
frogger70301: just mix it with a white/yellow mix?
frogger70301: more for each layer.
Fearless Leader: Mitch, how did you start your mix?
frogger70301: I did exactly what you did on that page.
Fearless Leader: from the primary colors going through the steps
Fearless Leader: ok, cool
frogger70301: yup.
Fearless Leader: you were asking about the pith?
Fearless Leader: I take the orange peel
Fearless Leader: add white
Fearless Leader: take a measure of that
Fearless Leader: and add more white
Fearless Leader: I'll bet
Fearless Leader: it's my way
Fearless Leader: ya that's what I most likely did
Fearless Leader: so you could replicate my mix exactly
Fearless Leader: if you mix it this way
Fearless Leader: adjust the color mixes to the fruit you're aiming at
Fearless Leader: speaking of blends
Fearless Leader: peach
Fearless Leader: has red at the pit
Fearless Leader: lovely red
frogger70301: I'm not used to any of this yet, so I'm just trying to
get something that I know is gonna work right the first time.
Fearless Leader: almost black, necturines too
Fearless Leader: do your peach blend
Fearless Leader: do a ribbon
Fearless Leader: jellyroll so the red is in the middle
Fearless Leader: when you make your peach and slice it
Fearless Leader: take out a bit of the middle for the pit hole
Fearless Leader: and you got a really believable peach
Fearless Leader: no body does peaches right yet
Fearless Leader: no where
Fearless Leader: no how, in clay anyway
Fearless Leader: wanna see the inside of a necturine?
sew_short: yes
Fearless Leader: see the blend
Fearless Leader: it is real
sew_short: Salt was mentioned earlier - it is ok to use on things?
Fearless Leader: fresh from my fridge
Fearless Leader: there, took a bite
sew_short: I wanna bite too
Fearless Leader: see the blend
Fearless Leader: the overlap
Fearless Leader: will be slight
Fearless Leader: not a lot
sew_short: just a little closer to the cam and I'll nab it
Fearless Leader: we can do necturines and peaches
Fearless Leader: if we do jellyroll blends
Fearless Leader: with the red in the middle
Fearless Leader: oh yes we could
Fearless Leader: LOL
Fearless Leader: ok, now it's time for a break
Fearless Leader: and you all decide
Fearless Leader: what you want to see next in mini food
Fearless Leader: ok?
sew_short: ok
jude: ok.
jude: brb
teri56: I need to get back to my eBay junk - but this sure has been
fun
teri56: see y'all later
teri56 left the room
sew_short: What do you think Teri? Watermellon? Or get away from fruit
and go to something else?
sew_short: OK Aunt Jude - what do you think?
sew_short: I think she wants to stay with mini food tonight
sew_short: Is Bonsai Kathy still here?
frogger70301: OH, yuck. I have to break out my Sculpey 3 to finish
this thing!
bonsaikathy: yes
bonsaikathy: working on an orange
sew_short: ok
sew_short: Oh Mitch, what a shame!
frogger70301: OH, I forgot. About T-Guy's truck.
frogger70301: Transmission blew!
bonsaikathy: oh no
frogger70301: yup.
frogger70301: not happy at all.
bonsaikathy: I'll bet he's not, it's so expensive to get fixed
frogger70301: And it's a diesel truck.
frogger70301: so it'll cost more.
sew_short: Ugh ... where is the truck right now?
bonsaikathy: so's my car
frogger70301: over here.
sew_short: Someone pull it home?
frogger70301: Yeah, my dad. Kath, what kind of car you got?
bonsaikathy: it's an 81 dasher diesel
frogger70301: Cool, I didn't know they made diesel cars!
bonsaikathy: it's got well over 300,000 miles on it and still gets me
where I want to go
bonsaikathy: they last forever, we've had several
frogger70301: They are good, but not when they break.
sew_short: My mom had a Dasher and after she traded it in she wished
she had kept it.
bonsaikathy: fortunately Gary can usuall fix what ever goes wrong with
them
bonsaikathy: yup, they are a great little car
bonsaikathy: he's torn the engines apart and rebuilt them
bonsaikathy: transmissions we don't
frogger70301: ever did a trans?
bonsaikathy: no, we did switch one out though from our old car to this
one
frogger70301: sorry, I shouldve looked.
bonsaikathy: ok
sew_short: Will T-Guy have trouble getting to work now?
Fearless Leader: back
frogger70301: No, he's gonna take my car.
Fearless Leader: had to get James some food
sew_short: Hey, I will be gone for about ten minutes.
bonsaikathy: totally understood
sew_short left the room
Fearless Leader: so
bonsaikathy: Well folks this has been great fun but I'd better get
going and spend some time with Gary, will send you the logs that I
have saved NJ in the morning after I have a chance to cut out
duplicate diologue
Fearless Leader: I see three names and four viewers?
Fearless Leader: Hey Merrie, you didn't miss anything
Fearless Leader: I had to rustle up some grub for James
merrie60us joined the room
Fearless Leader: ok Kathy
Fearless Leader: thanks for doing log save
merrie60us: this yahoo is crazy tonight
Fearless Leader: I'll bet.
Fearless Leader: How's the oranges going Mitch?