WHYEVER?Hues in Tubes… and how they made a name for themselvesSome paints are named after… someone who could be… Ardent mineralogist and colour passionate too, he goes by the name of Goethe, and a yellowish-to-reddish-to-dark-brown or even black Earth pigment, Goethite, bears his name. However, one could argue that another pigment would have been much…
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Some paints are named after… e) an Emperor, a King, a Queen, even some mythic Royalty
WHYEVER?Hues in Tubes… and how they made a name for themselvesSome paints are named after… someone who could be… One ring down from deities, certainly, but at the time considered their legal representatives, the second-best thing for a pigment was a bit of regal patronage.Emperor Green, another name for the deadly Emerald Green, may have…
Some paints are named after… d) an anonymous potter and an even more random shepard
WHYEVER?Hues in Tubes… and how they made a name for themselvesSome paints are named after… someone who could be… OMG, Potter’s pink! Who you did not read about in the previous section is Mr Potter and his pink—frankly because I had quite forgotten him. A man (again!) I realised I was assuming while putting back…
Some paints are named after… c) a painter
WHYEVER?Hues in Tubes… and how they made a name for themselvesSome paints are named after… someone who could be… Many paint ranges seem to have chosen an artist as their ‘sponsor’. Some quite naturally so, such as Van Gogh and Rembrandt under the umbrella of the Dutch company, Royal Talens, for example. Yet other artists,…
Some paints are named after… b) the colourman who commercialised them
WHYEVER?Hues in Tubes… and how they made a name for themselvesSome paints are named after… someone who could be… You might think dozens of artists have had such a strong connection with a colour that their names would be all over the tubes but, strangely enough, there are probably more paintmakers’ names on these than…
Some paints are named after… a) the chemist who invented the pigment
WHYEVER?Hues in Tubes… and how they made a name for themselvesSome paints are named after… someone who could be… From Egyptian Blue to YInMn, it is rare that the person who actually discovers/creates/concocts/chances upon a new pigment or understands how to reproduce one synthetically is remembered by name. For centuries, it was presumably more a…
Some paints are named after… the colour of something quite intangible
WHYEVER?Hues in Tubes… and how they made a name for themselves Although one understands (hopefully anyway) that the ‘tangible’ pigment names we just saw are only meant to be ‘evocative’ of the lemon or the geranium (i.e. no pips or petals have been used in making the pigment), others, on the other hand, are named…
Let’s first find out how the basic hues got their names
WHYEVER?Hues in Tubes… and how they made a name for themselves Should we first find out first how the basic hues got their names? Let’s, I think it might be fun! Plus, red, blue, green and yellow do appear on tubes. Not by themselves, but usually preceded by a family name such as Cadmium or…
Hues on Tubes are weird news!
WHYEVER?Hues in Tubes… and how they made a name for themselves Before I proceed, and yet again for the sole purpose of your edification as I would rather not serve you that somewhat disappointing entrée, but the truth is… hues on tubes are indeed bringing you weird news! The Oxford English dictionary defines “hue” as…
The unnamable colours we need to name
WHYEVER? Hues in Tubes… and how they made a name for themselves I mixed on a glass palette, colours that went beyond Windsor and Isaac Newton—nameless colours…Derek Jarman, Chroma At last, and whatever the binder we have chosen… we… have… PAINT! We could use it all now, if we were greedy, but perhaps not that exciting…
in bed with mona lisa 