Description
Of the three shades of Lapis available from Wallace Seymour this one has the highest chroma, it is a deep, rich blue, in its depth it almost has a violet edge to it.
Sometimes when making oil paint you can maximize the chroma by keeping the particle size slightly larger, and this is the case here, so the paint has a slightly gritty feel under the palette knife.
When white is added, the tints are a substantial range of utterly perfect sky blues, due in my opinion to the slightly violet leaning hue.
It stands up well in mixes, although it feels like this paint shouldn't be mixed with any other and just be used in it's glorious purity! This is very special paint...
Technical Overview
Pigment - PB29
Vehicle - Single Estate Cold Pressed Linseed Oil
Opacity - Semi-Transparent
Tint Power - Low/Medium
Munsell - Hue 5PB - Value 3 - Chroma 8
