"Tints" vs. "Pigments"?

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OK, I've been busily experimenting with a whole range of castings. I have so many ideas spinning in my head. One of them entails using color in the PR, but not a solid color (like my Mixol gives me) but a clearer, more transparent color, like looking through colored glass. Does anyone have any ideas what would be good for this? I thought about food coloring, but it's water based, no good there.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dale
 
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spiritwoodturner said:
OK, I've been busily experimenting with a whole range of castings. I have so many ideas spinning in my head. One of them entails using color in the PR, but not a solid color (like my Mixol gives me) but a clearer, more transparent color, like looking through colored glass. Does anyone have any ideas what would be good for this? I thought about food coloring, but it's water based, no good there.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dale
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Hobby Lobby carries the Cast'n Craft transparent pigments as well as the opaques. You could give them a try.

I mostly use opaques (Pigments from Surfsource for PR and Epoxies), but I also use the transparents. I recently bought the last 3- 8oz bottles of dark(Navy) blue pigment, that turned out to be transparents. They make a gorgeous liquidy blue when used at 1:100 pigment to resin.
 
If you want translucense, just use less color. When you buy any translucent color, it is just that, less pigment in a medium and for the same price as the opaque.
 
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