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These colors contain

smaller amounts of

green and yellow,

are lighter in value,

and range from low

to moderate tinting

power. Natural mineral

or earth colors are not

high chroma, pure hue

colors. Leaning opti-

cally towards their color

complements, they mix

less cleanly than colors in the other two groups, but have nature s subtlety.

Kingman Turquoise Genuine P, made from the classic blue-green

turquoise mined in Arizona, is a low-staining paint with exquisite grada-

tions of light and color. Fuchsite Genuine P is created with the pearly-

green mineral Fuchsite. Ours comes from Russia and, when ground into

pigment, produces a paint that retains the shimmer and luminous qualities

resulting from the mineral's mica-like qualities.

Terre Verte (green earth) mixes viridian and raw umber to imitate the

classic underpainting color used by the Romans. Malachite Genuine P,

the best green available from ancient Egypt up through the Renaissance, is

lightfast and transparent with low tinting strength. Cobalt Green Pale is by

nature a very pale blue-green colorant. Bohemian Green Earth is another

natural earth green, slightly yellower.

Zoisite Genuine P is a dramatically granulating paint that creates in-

teresting textures as it moves through water. Its granulation pattern ranges

from an almost black hue to a dark, bottle green.

Chromium Green Oxide is a neutral, opaque at green that can be used

to soften other colors. Buff Titanium is a wonderful neutral sandy color.

Surprisingly transparent, it layers well. Undersea Green, a mix of inorganic

French ultramarine and organic quinacridone gold pigments, produces an

atmospheric separation effect, even in light washes. In Naples Yellow, the

mixture of cadmium yellow light and venetian red is neutralized by the

opaque, milky character of zinc oxide, creating a warm golden yellow with

a slight tint of orange. Olive Green gets its beautiful warm brown color

from the raw umber and its clean green from a mixture of ultramarine blue

and Aureolin. It is slightly granular and semi-transparent. Nickel Titanate

Yellow is somewhat opaque in mass tone but lifts cleanly. It is a beautiful

yellow-green others call Lemon Yellow Hue.

From Yellow through Orange and on to Red

This large section begins with the pure chroma colors from bright yel-

low to orange, and then from orange to red. The rst half of the outer edge

contains: Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue (30), Hansa Yellow Medium

(31), Hansa Yellow

Deep (32), Nickel

Azo Yellow (33), Rich

Green Gold (34),

Indian Yellow (35),

New Gamboge (36),

Cadmium Yellow

Deep (37), Burgundy

Yellow Ochre (38),

Permanent Yellow

Deep (39), Quina-

cridone Gold (40),

Transparent Yellow

Oxide (41), Perma-

nent Orange (42),

Pompeii Red (43),

Cadmium Orange (44) and Quinacridone

Sienna (45).

The bright yellow to orange colors begin with

Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue, developed as an

alternative to the standard cadmium colors on

the market today. This blend of pigments is an

exact color replacement for our Cadmium Yellow Medium with slightly

better color strength and cleaner mixing properties.

Hansa Yellow Medium and Hansa Yellow Deep are modern pigments

developed in the 1950s. Note on the color map the relationship of these

two colors to the cadmiums; Hansa Yellow plots out as the perfect yellow

and both are more saturated colors. Nickel Azo Yellow has the warmth of

Hansa Yellow, but is paler and somewhat more neutral. Rich Green Gold

is a semi-transparent yellow green, wonderful for glazing and indispensable

in landscapes. Our Indian Yellow and New Gamboge unlike many other

brands colors of the same names, have an excellent reputation and a light-

fastness rating of II Very Good. Both granulate slightly, and create nice

golden-orange/brown puddled edges. Indian Yellow is made with anthrapy-

rimidine yellow, one of four new vat pigments we selected for our line.

Cadmium Yellow Deep (cp) is next. Semi-transparent and less pure than

the Hansa Yellows, Cadmium Yellow Deep creates warm, slightly grainy

mixtures.

Burgundy Yellow Ochre, an earthy ochre from Burgundy France, is a

unique color with a higher chroma that standard Yellow Ochre.

Permanent Yellow Deep, a sunset color made with isoindolinone yellow,

also has a lightfastness rating of II Very Good. A rich, sedimentary near-

orange in mass tone, it graduates to a glowing hot yellow in washes.

Quinacridone Gold, in a class of its own, has been our single most

popular newcomer. Many watercolorists have replaced Raw Sienna with it,

and as you'll note on the color map, it plots out as more vivid and cleaner

than Raw Sienna. Quinacridone pigments (pronounced kwin ak ri doan)

range from gold, deep orange, coral and scarlet to rose, violet, magenta

and maroon. They are high-performance transparent pigments that are

lightfast, durable at all tinting levels, maintain outstanding clarity and

color intensity, and are truly unequaled.

Transparent Yellow Oxide is earthy and leans towards brown, with

handsome sedimentation in washes. Pompeii Red is a red-orange of unusu-

ally high chroma for a natural earth color. Two oranges, each with a slight

bias towards yellow, are Permanent Orange and Cadmium Orange (cp).

Though similar colors, the Permanent Orange is more yellow and slightly

more saturated, and Cadmium Orange is redder. On the color map, our

Quinacridone Sienna, like Burnt Sienna, plots right on the orange line.

It is transparent and considerably brighter than Burnt Sienna, ideal for

glazing.

The second half of bright colors, orange to red, contains:

Pyrrol Orange (46), Perinone Orange (47),