What are your favorite Bullseye production colors?

[Beckah]

I'm thinking about doing the BE bulk buy and adding some BE production colors to my growing collection of BE odds. I know about the Studio Pack but it is too much of an investment for me at the moment. I'm thinking that I just need some basic colors like black, white, cream and some red, yellow, green, etc. to use with my odds.

So what are your favorite basic BE colors? And what production colors may not be basic but you can't imagine living without? Also which black, clear and white are your favorites?

Thanks!

[Three Muses Glass]

I couldn't live without French Vanilla! My fav clear is 1401 Crystal Clear. I like Stiff Black and for white I use regular white, not dense.

[Lara]

Yup, French Vanilla. I used it like white. Also several of the cranberry pinks.

[squid]

Nougat!!! It's a nice reactive almost-ivory.

[KEW]

Light pink striker.
Violet striker.
Erbium pink tint.
Coral tint.
Steel blue, trans, light trans, opaque.
Blue violet opaque, special color.

There are more, but those are the first ones that come to mind that I find irresistable.

[squid]

all the lusters!

[KEW]

Oh, yes, copper lustre in particular for me.

The sunset corals, both regular and light.

[squid]

I love the cranberry striker.

[Elizabeth Beads]

All of them! Lovely, true colors, hard to burn or reduce. Love the pinks, blues, greens.

So much glass to melt, so many ideas, so little time!

Liz

[Jupiter]

I like regular white, not dense, schott clear rods and stiff black. I love fuschia, cranberry striker, sunset coral and violet striker.

[yeepers]

I love sunset coral. Don't know why but I love it!

[Beckah]

Thanks for the help! I never would've thought of Sunset Coral but that sounds like the favorite of a few. It sounds like stiff black wins over regular black and regular white over dense white.

I wish the lusters weren't so expensive, I don't think I can get them all. Is the favorite copper luster?

If someone else has thoughts, please add them. Thanks to everyone who responded

[squid]

The opaque white is much better for me than the regular or even Dense White.

[LyndaJ]

Depending how you're going to use it, regular black is better. Stiff black is really..... stiff. It annoys me on shaping sometimes -- and you need to be extra careful to make sure that stringers and dots of it are melted in enough. They seem to pop off more easily than regular black. There was a tip posted by the Chases a while back that they use the charcoal as a "black" base bead substitute. I keep meaning to try that, but I forget.

What colors do you work with the most? Bright spring tones, earthy, jewel?? I like most of their regular colors.

I don't think there's a regular white that's still available. I use Opaque and Dense rather interchangeably.

[Beckah]

Thanks for the info on black!

I like bright, bold colors. And I definitely love the blue-to-red part of the color wheel. I'm particularly fond of pinks, purples and fuschias. But I love the Sand Dune in last month's odds -- so I also love the very earthy colors as well.

I've been buying a few rods of the odds every couple of months from Bridgetown. And I decided that I like doing that so much that I'm mostly looking to build a basic palette to make the odds more useful. For instance, I don't have but a rod or two of black, white and clear -- so buying a pound of each of those would make those odds much more useful

But these posts have been helpful. I thought about the tints mentioned by another poster and I've used the tints as clear layers in my fusing and really liked it a lot.

Thanks for everyone's help!

[miahawk]

my very favoritest BE color is gold purple. I also prefer nougat to french vanilla because FV is so shocky.

[Kalera]

I adore french Vanilla (needs to be preheated to prevent shockiness, it really can be a bear) and I also go through tons of clear for encasing, both aventurine greens, royal blue, deep royal purple, and transparent turquoise. The transparent red and orange are also favorites.

[Tesorobeads]

This thread is helpful to me also as I am starting to buy bullseye glass.

Debbie

[steph1214]

I absolutely love spring green and tomato red!!!! i cannot get enough of these two colors together, they are fun and funky, and add a little of the fudge and you have that vera bradley print "pucini"! It is identical to the those colors.
steph

[LyndaJ]

opals regular red, orange, cobalt, cyan, I like sunflower yellow better than canary. The canary leans a little to a green tint. There's not really a good bright green in the opals.
When I want a bright green I encase either white or spring green with kelly green. As stated, the gold purple is a very good color. I really like Egyptian blue, too. Regular pink is a good pink, although the odd mulberry that just came out is better behaved for me. Keep the pink cooler in the flame or it will separate and burn out the color.

Transparents red, orange (I prefer the odd lollipop orange to the production orange), yellow, light green, kelly green for encased vines, caribbean blue, sky blue, turquoise, violet striker *LOVE* this one, it separates a little on flower petals. Cranberry pink is my favorite pink. Plum is nice

Neutrals - nougat, ocher yellow, burnt orange, there's another cinnabar, maybe that just became a production color. I vastly prefer sable to woodland brown. Woodland brown acts like a striking color. I like the medium amber, and also the driftwood grey

[PaulaD]

I have always loved Neo Lavender!
Paula

[Beckah]

Wow, thanks for all the great help! So much to buy and so little money

Thanks to all the posters -- you've given me lots of good information!