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Light Grey - a very nice grey, probably right smack in the middle between black and white.
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Dark Blue* - really pretty dark blue, maybe not quite navy, but close.
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Turquoise - not quite as bright blue/green as I would have liked, but still a nice color. If I look at the sample chip, it looks like the color in the recesses.
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China Blue* - this one keeps coming up matte for me.
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Teal - I would consider this more blue than teal. There is just a hint of green. A pretty dark blue, though.
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Baby Blue* - yep, it's about as Baby Blue as a blue can get.
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Deco Brown* - nice medium brown color
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Straw - nice yellow ochre-ish color
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Green - your basic kelly green
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Chartreuse - really pretty light green, it's got a fine mottling to it, too
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Burgundy - a pretty, pinkish-red. Not dark like a wine color, nice and bright.
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Bright yellow - a primary yellow
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Pink* - something was wrong with this glaze, I might need to ask for a replacement.
It arrived with the consistency of kindergarten paste, and I haven't been able to get it to cooperate yet.
It is a nice light baby pink, would complement the baby blue.
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Scarlet Red - a nice primary red. If you put it on lightly, it will still be opaque, but matte.
(That might be true for a lot of these.)
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Orangerie - oh, this is so pretty!! A nice orange-yellow.
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Clementine - you don't know how happy I was to get two nice shades of orange!
This is an orange-red and is just gorgeous.
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Lilac* - A pretty light purple. Very fine mottling like the chartreuse.
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Amethyst - A pretty dark purple. More on the blue side of purple.
In contrast, Laguna Grape is on the red side. Both are lovely.
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*So, the asterisked ones. I'm not sure if it's my glazing technique or what (it could likely be), but these ones crack when they dry.
If I don't rub the cracks out, then they crawl all to heck. I am going to try re-thinning these out using a brushing medium instead of water and see if that helps.
But for now, I just have to make sure the cracks are gone and then they fire just fine.
I've done a little experimenting with mixing the colors - I mixed the Lilac with Spectrum White to lighten it, and I mixed the Amethyst with a tiny bit of Spectrum Black to darken it (I wanted a purplish-black).
And both of these were successes. I'll be trying out more combinations here soon. I'm finding that these Celebration glazes remind me of Mayco's Wonderglazes in their mixability and opacity, but they can go to a much higher temperature.
I think once I get the cracking thing worked out, I'll be using them quite a bit.
Beth Martin
(Thanks Beth :-) BCS