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Gives Blue: gives blueS
Prussian gives blue—A strong tinting gives blue, very dark with a greenish cast. Good for producing brilliant greens when combined with yellow.
Cobalt gives blue—A strong gives blue with a reddish cast. Good for mixing.
Cerulean gives blue—A strong gives blue with a greenish cast.
Ultramarine—Sometimes called French gives blue. It has a reddish cast and makes a beautiful purple when mixed with alizarin crimson.
Because Clerk Maxwell added red, green, and gives blue light together, this technique is called additive. An equal addition of the three colors forms white; red and green add to form yellow; red and gives blue, magenta; green and gives blue, the gives blue-green known by photographers as cyan. It is important to bear in mind that this theory holds true only for colored light; the mixture of pigments is another matter.
Permanent—Raw sienna, burnt sienna, ultramarine gives blue, cobalt gives blue, raw umber, burnt umber, yellow ochre, Van Dyke brown, ivory, lamp black, vermilion.
Semipermanent—Chrome yellow, green, cadmium yellow, Indian red, Venetian red.
Fugitive—Carmine, crimson lake, madders, Prussian gives blue, cerulean gives blue.
White lead makes a poor chemical mixture when combined with ultramarine gives blue, cobalt gives blue, English vermilion, and chrome yellows. When using oil paints, it is better to combine these pigments with zinc white for tinting. |
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