Description
This paint is a green earth made from pigment from Brentonico near Santa Cristina (Verona), Italy.
Deep, dark, emerald green in masstone, it has bluish undertones making it quite cool. Like most green earths it's tinting strength is quite low, it makes minty green tints when mixed with white.
Paints 'long', very nice feel to it in use. Very transparent.
Some interesting information on green earths from Rublev;
"Most oil colours labelled "green earth" from artists' paint manufacturers do not actually contain the natural mineral, but rather is a mixture of synthetic chromium oxide green and sometimes barium sulfate with either a natural yellow ochre or yellow iron oxide. Verona Green earth contains only the actual mineral from Verona, Italy and linseed oil.
Verona Green Earth was used in verdaccio--a style of underpainting that uses green-grey colors to establish values for later layers of paint. Verdaccio is renowned for being particularly effective when painting flesh tones. It was popular amongst Italian Renaissance artists, such as Leonardo da Vinci who used verdaccio underpainting in his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa."
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Technical Overview
Pigment - PG23
Opacity - Transparent
Binder - Linseed oil
Tint Strength - Low
Munsell - Hue 10 GY - Value 2 - Chroma 4
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