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how to get peacock blue? Goto page 1, 2  Next      CakeCentral.com Forum Index » Cake Decorating Author Message juststarted Regular Member Joined: Sep 10, 2009 Posts: 153 Location: Toronto, Canada. Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:00 pm  Trying to achieve peacock blue in fondant. didn't get any clue searching online. hope you can help. thanks in advance. all4cake Forum Fanatic Joined: Jul 02, 2006 Posts: 4443 Location: NC Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:17 pm  Geez! I just looked it up...there's no real clear definition of it either. My first thought was to use sky blue with royal blue added to it...possibly a smidge of green. After seeing all the variances (like depending on who's opinion one asks...even with the color palette sites, there was no exactness to the color), I just don't know! Do you have a 'swatch' of the color...or something similar you can share? OMGitsaLisa Regular Member Joined: Jul 22, 2009 Posts: 126 Location: Arlington, TX Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:27 pm  I don't even know what color peacock blue is. I tried google image searching but came up with some pretty different colors. all4cake Forum Fanatic Joined: Jul 02, 2006 Posts: 4443 Location: NC Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:36 pm  even on actual peacocks, the 'peacock' blue is different! http://www.india-wildlife-adve.....-blue.html juststarted Regular Member Joined: Sep 10, 2009 Posts: 153 Location: Toronto, Canada. Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:45 pm  lol, you guys are absolutely right. I should've mentioned which shade I'm trying to achieve. here is my goal color- Peacock_blue_61152053_large.jpg  Description:  Filesize:  67.18 KB  Viewed:  208 Time(s) Peacock_blue_61152053_large.jpg  Description:  Filesize:  67.18 KB  Viewed:  208 Time(s) all4cake Forum Fanatic Joined: Jul 02, 2006 Posts: 4443 Location: NC Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:47 pm  http://steelhead.aecom.yu.edu/.....20blue.jpg I'd use the previously stated colors to achieve this color...within this ONE bird's neck, there's a wide variance of color.... all4cake Forum Fanatic Joined: Jul 02, 2006 Posts: 4443 Location: NC Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:49 pm  Isn't that beautiful! sky blue and royal blue...more royal than sky for the image you shared juststarted. I don't know for sure now...that's just what I'd try. all4cake Forum Fanatic Joined: Jul 02, 2006 Posts: 4443 Location: NC Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:55 pm  http://www.oasisupply.com/imag.....ide_lg.jpg looky what I found! juststarted Regular Member Joined: Sep 10, 2009 Posts: 153 Location: Toronto, Canada. Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:24 pm  wow all4cake you did more research on this color than I did myself! the color mix guide you found is phenomenon. I think you shoud post the link on a new post and ask them to make a sticky, it will help a lot of newbies like me. however I think I'll try 2 parts royal blue with 1 part purple, what do you think? all4cake Forum Fanatic Joined: Jul 02, 2006 Posts: 4443 Location: NC Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:27 pm  I thought the blue/purple mix looked the closest on that chart as well. If you have enough icing.... I'd be happy to see what you mix up! juststarted Regular Member Joined: Sep 10, 2009 Posts: 153 Location: Toronto, Canada. Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:41 pm  thanks a million again, let's see how it goes. juststarted Regular Member Joined: Sep 10, 2009 Posts: 153 Location: Toronto, Canada. Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:14 pm  Hi all4cake, this is the closest I could get, I was quite happy with the color: http://www.cakecentral.com/mod.....857&done=1 all4cake Forum Fanatic Joined: Jul 02, 2006 Posts: 4443 Location: NC Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:52 pm  Nice color. Gorgeous cake! and that was the royal blue and purple? That's an intense color. I've got some cornflower blue, royal blue, and purple fondant (that's what I mixed to get the blue on the snowflake cake in my photos). I'm going to add some royal blue and a touch of green to it and see what happens. I really like that blue you made! Lambshack Regular Member Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 174 Location: Texas Birthday: Aug 28 Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:11 am  There is a beautiful luster dust in a peacock blue too! juststarted Regular Member Joined: Sep 10, 2009 Posts: 153 Location: Toronto, Canada. Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:41 am  thank you both. all4cake, yes it was royal blue and purple. but I didn't have purple so mixed violet with red. and I probably spent about 15 toothpicks to finally get this color . Display posts from previous:   All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year  Oldest FirstNewest First     CakeCentral.com Forum Index » Cake Decorating Goto page 1, 2  Next You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You can attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum Translation: