Michael Harding : Oil Paint : 225ml : Emerald Green

PY3 & PG7 & PW4 & PW6. Average Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

Another blend of organic lake colours ( Arylide yellow and Phthalo Green) with the two whites to give a safe and permanent substitute for the original Emerald Green, the notorious Copper Aceto-Arsenite, a brilliant green introduced circa 1810 and long since abandoned as being impermanent, highly reactive with other pigments and highly poisonous! My blend has none of these disadvantages. Some artists detest this uniquely strident colour, others love its acerbic tang, which invites an almost Fauve series of related mixes.