Description
This is an organic and warm green which leans towards yellow. Very fresh and bright in masstone.
Well suited to Landscape painting, it has a delicate luminosity from the lead in the recipe and provides a wide range of sunlit, green tints.
Cinnabar green was initially a very toxic and fugitive paint, based on copper arsenic. Mainly due to its poor light fast qualities it was replaced in the early 19th Century with a mix of Chrome yellow and Prussian blue, this particular paint is based on a recipe from the 19th Century and is composed of those two colours.
Historically authentic.
Technical Overview
Pigment - PY34 & PB27
Opacity - Opaque
Tint Strength - Average
Drying Rate - Fast
Binder - Linseed Oil
Munsell - 5 GY - Value 5 - Chroma 8
