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Wednesday, 16 May 2018 / Published in Buying Art, Colors, History, Permanency, Watercolor

Fugitive Colors: What are they? Why does Beauty Fade?

Fugitive Colors in History of Painting:   Artists J.M. W. Turner, Vincent Van Gogh, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, whether knowingly or not, used fugitive colors. This term has to do with colorfastness and the quality of fading over time. The prime reason has to do with their degradation due to light. During  the Spanish colonization
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Thursday, 10 May 2018 / Published in Colors, History, Materials

Gray and Neutral Colors, Sources, Functions and Mixing

Gray Sources in History: In Victoria Finlay’s Color: A Natural History of the Palette, she writes about the first sources of gray as being the remnants of fire. However, one of the best materials found for drawing was willow charcoal. Much later, in Somerset, England, Percy Coate had been a willow basket maker. The demand
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Wednesday, 02 May 2018 / Published in Colors, History, Materials

Meaning of black in culture, sources and history of the pigment and dye.

   Meanings of Black: A black object is one that absorbs all colors in the spectrum and reflects back no colors. Not found in the spectrum, it is the absence of light. In pre Christian times, it would represent death, sickness, witchcraft, and negation. In Christian symbolism, it also means death; it is the liturgical color
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