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Although several coloring agents are available, pastecolors have been found to be the most generally satis-factory. The range of colors available to the decorator, in addition to the primaries-red, blue and yellow-include violet, green, brown and pink. The color wheel,of course, shows us that we can get along very wellwith only the 3 primaries. In using paste colors, it is well to remember that alittle goes a long way. A relatively small amount of theintense paste color will tint a large amount of whiteicing. The colored icing and not the paste colors areused in mixing other colors, since paste colors by them-selves are too intense for accurate color blending. Wedo, however, use paste colors full strength when we addthem to water to prepare a colored spray. The illustra-tions on the preceding page demonstrate step by stepthe approved method of color mixing and blending. Throughout this book we describe the colors used invarious decorations. The color wheel tells us how toobtain any color from various combinations of thethree primary colors. It remains now to modify thecolors obtained (dark or light-warm or cold) to suitour requirements. For example: we mix a small amount |
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