Description
Summer in a tube!
This is Nickel Azo with the addition of Quinacridone, these are two of the most vibrant modern pigments and combined give a very rich in depth red, gold colour.
The masstone is an unassuming chocolate brown, the true beauty of this colour appears when it is brushed out to a thinner layer and then wonderful red golds start to appear like magic. You can just see them on the masstone drawdown image above.
As a tint (addition of titanium white) a low chroma yellow is the result which is functional but its real beauty lies in the semi-transparent layers of golden hues
This is not the combination of many pigments to approximate an existing single pigment colour, a technique used by some big paint manufacturers, this is alchemy, using cutting edge pigments to create wonderful new colours which have a richness unavailable to the artist mixing on the palette.
I sometimes wonder if the impressionists had had access to pigments like these what they would have created...
Technical Overview
Pigments - PV19 & PY150
Vehicle - Linseed Oil
Opacity - Transparent
Munsell - Hue 2.5 YR - Value 3 - Chroma 8
Langridge Oil Paint
