Browsing Tag Colour In Practice
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Features & EditorialsNaples Yellow can range from a buttery primrose yellow to an earthy brown-yellow. It is very dense, opaque, fast drying (like all lead-based pigments) and has an average ...
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Features & EditorialsGeorgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) is often credited with being the ‘Mother of American Modernism’. She is best known for her large-scale, billowing flower paintings and the many landscapes she ...
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Studio and GeneralPrussian Blue (pigment index number PB27) is deep and inky colour. Its influence can be seen across art history– it is the characteristic pigment of Picasso’s Blue Period, ...
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Studio and GeneralVenetian Red is one of many earthy-red colours named after a geographical location– other examples include English Red, Pompeii Red, Indian Red, and Pozzuoli Red. These colours are ...
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Studio and GeneralRembrandt’s colour palette was characterised by dark browns and black, earthy yellows, and deep reds– colours that give his paintings an instantly recognisable atmosphere of warm darkness. This ...
