Each color gets a short section of a few pages, sorted into chapters by hue. Clair goes deep into the history of individual colors, covering both their chemical histories and their cultural impact and meanings. In The Secret Lives of Color, cultural historian Kassia St. Others are recent inventions and require complex chemical processes.
Some are as simple as dirt from the ground.
Why is every pigment so radically different from the next? Because they’re made from different things. I vividly remember the sting of a tube of Cobalt Blue Turquoise Light on my student budget, and the subsequent stinginess with which I’d squeeze out the tiniest dot of it onto my palette… And price – some individual tubes of paint cost many times the price of others. Depending on the brand, we can also delve into the particulars of viscosity and granularity, and on top of that there’s lightfastness and toxicity to consider. When choosing a color to add to a palette for a painting, we have to consider value, hue, saturation, and transparency.
Oil paints are fascinating and sometimes frustrating beasts, each with its own personality.
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