Messy Color™ Grumpy Bear

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Grumpy Bear (511570)<br />An opaque periwinkle blue.

An opaque periwinkle blue.


"Grumpy Bear is an opaque periwinkle blue just like the CareBear character. As a periwinkle it does create some reactions based on what you combine with it, so I tested it in this faux 'vessel' shaped bead with some handmade frit and a wrapping of fine silver wire. This is where you see a slight bit of the reaction where the wire touches the Grumpy Bear. I encased the bead's Grumpy Bear base with Splash and created the ends of the barrel shaped bead and a final quick wrap of more silver." Read more at Darlene's blog. – Darlene Collette

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CiM Tester Feedback

  • Testers agreed that Grumpy Bear & periwinkle are similar but disagreed on which they prefer.
"I can’t honestly say that there is much of a difference between Grumpy Bear and periwinkle. If anything, the Grumpy Bear is a bit 'stiffer' than the Italian but not enough to make much of a difference." – Chris Haussler
"Grumpy Bear is a much nicer colour in my opinion, more vibrant with more 'ooomph'." – Claire Morris
"I found Grumpy Bear had a bit deeper color to it than the periwinkle." – Donna Dorman
"Grumpy Bear's hue is spot on to periwinkle and will be a replacement for me since I know it won’t shatter just looking at it. [Again, another color that is just too shocky now from Italian glasses]." – Elasia
"Grumpy Bear is slightly darker than periwinkle." – Elizabeth Long
"I have been trying to find a light blue with which I can make encased flowers. I’ve mainly tried working with Periwinkle, and the results vary depending on which lot I’m using. When I tried using Grumpy Bear, the petals couldn’t keep a hard edge and the results were that the flowers looked very ethereal, which was not what I was going for." – Gail Witt
"Grumpy Bear is much darker than the periwinkle that I have. I was able to get wonderful colors out of Raku on this color." – Jan Whitesel-Keeton
"Italian periwinkle is stiffer and reacts more with dark ivory, it lets ivory spread more. Grumpy Bear is streakier and a little darker. When reduced strongly, both colours reduced to purple-gray." – Maija-Leena Autio
"I use Grumpy Bear & periwinkle interchangeably." – Renee Wiggins
"Made a spacer bead with Grumpy Bear over periwinkle and they both look pretty much the same." – Leslie Anne Bitgood

Genea Crivello-Knable made "Dusk Twirls" using Grumpy Bear.
Join Trudi Doherty's FB group Lampwork Colour Resource Sharing Information for a catalogue of color study.
Claudia Eidenbenz’s "Vetrothek" (glass library) is a great resource for color comparisons.
See Kay Powell’s frit testing samples.
Browse Serena Thomas’ color gallery.
Check out Miriam Steger’s CiM color charts.
Consult Jolene Wolfe's glass testing resource page.

"Grumpy Bear is an opaque periwinkle blue just like the CareBear character. As a periwinkle it does create some reactions based on what you combine with it, so I tested it in this faux 'vessel' shaped bead with some handmade frit and a wrapping of fine silver wire. This is where you see a slight bit of the reaction where the wire touches the Grumpy Bear. I encased the bead's Grumpy Bear base with Splash and created the ends of the barrel shaped bead and a final quick wrap of more silver." Read more at Darlene's blog.
– Darlene Collette
Check out Heather Sellers "Speedy Rainbow Hearts" tutorial in the October 2016 issue of the Soda Lime Times.
– Heather Sellers
Vickie Christian uses Grumpy Bear frit to create 104 compatible frit blends. Find more blends at Vickie's Emporium.
– Vickie Christian
"The other dot bead is Effetre Light Ivory on Grumpy Bear. A little bleeding/fuzzing at the edges, but not much. Very pretty blue." Read more at DragonJools blog.
– Dwyn Tomlinson
"This is a Grumpy Bear base with silver foil and superheated Hades stringer, encased in Effetre clear. When combined with silver foil, Grumpy Bear goes a stone brown."
– Claire Morris
"As I have said before, I think the colour of Grumpy Bear's colour has a little more oomph than Effetre Periwinkle. I'm not sure that it is different enough though to warrant buying that as opposed to Effetre. I remain undecided! I found that when I made a set of beads with Grumpy Bear as a base with superheated Raku and Hades murrini, it got 'pushed' by the murrini and created little veins of denser colour around it."
– Claire Morris
"Grumpy Bear with layered dots of Effetre Dark Ivory and mixtures of Double Helix silver glasses and Catalyst 404. Highlights of Double Helix's Ekho." See more at Darlene's blog.
– Darlene Collette
"Grumpy Bear makes an especially gorgeous base for frit blends. It gets that fabulous reaction halo from gold-based glass colors."
– Patricia Frantz
"I really like Grumpy Bear, it’s very dense and saturated, but in my florals, it seems to be too dense. Using the same Effetre Ink Blue for top color of flowers, somehow they just aren’t as striking and colorful as when used with Effetre Periwinkle."
– Sue Stewart
"Grumpy Bear is a little richer than Effetre Periwinkle." Read more and see more comparison beads including etched versions at Lush Blogs.
– Julie Fountain
"My Grumpy Bear test beads are by far my favorite of the silvered shard test beads, with a secondary organic effect of brown striations appearing during the application process." Read more at the Kitzbitz Art Glass blog.
– Jolene Wolfe
"This rose cane is also Grumpy Bear with 2 layers of Cranberry on top. Notice how much more saturated the color is when left raised." Read more about Grumpy Bear and Cranberry Pink combinations at Genea's blog.
– Genea Crivello
The shards in this Mojo Box are silver infused Grumpy Bear.  Check out more of Jolene Wolfe's Mojo Boxes.
– Jolene Wolfe
"Grumpy Bear is a periwinkle blue . . . has the same fabulous working proprieties as the other blues mentioned above.  [don’t pit or turn black.]"  Read more at the Frantz Art Glass blog.
– Patricia Frantz