American Clay | Colors

If you've seen it in nature, you can find it here. No matter where you've been, we have a color to match. With 34 Destination Colors and eight Natural Depth accents, you can recreate your favorite vacation destination, or turn your home into the beach or mountainside you've always wanted to visit!

When you order your plaster, each 50 lb. bucket or bag will come with a Color Pack of your choosing, which you hand-mix to create the shade and consistency perfect for your project. The natural oxides and ochers used in our Color Packs ensure your finish will be naturally resistant to UV rays and will not experience the kind of fading normally associated with other finishes. And, of course, it will.

When deciding which color to mix with your lime-gauged American Clay earth plaster, here is an important point to consider. Lime has a dramatic effect on ultramarine blue pigments, and our current pigments are not lime-safe. For more information click on the link below:

HOW LIME AFFECTS AMERICAN CLAY PIGMENTS--Download PDF

Colors by Family

Click one of the photos below to see our colors broken down by color family.

Custom Colors

Don't see what you need here? We'd love to prepare custom Color Packs to match any sample you have. A $75 charge per color applies and includes up to two samples of each color you want matched. Color matches will be shipped to you within three weeks from the date of receipt. Test our matching samples against your color, approve your choice of the match by signing the sample and returning it to us for production. Custom color production requires a minimum order of three Color Packs.

Samples

Sample brochures of our colors are available. In addition, 2 lb. and 5 lb. packets of the pre-colored dry plaster are also available at a low cost plus shipping. Please visit our shop for more information.

How our colors work

Each of our finishes has a slightly different look even though the color pigment is the same. Click the samples below to see how nuanced each color can be. Before any pigment is added, our clays look like the "Base Color" sample below. Simply add our pigments to the clay to recreate any of our colors. It's easy!

Base Colors