Re: Crayola Method of Color ID
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- Subject: Re: Crayola Method of Color ID
- From: "* A* S* <m*@erols.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 16:14:57 -0700 (MST)
Hi Anner -- read this posting with great interest. May I ask how you happen
to know so much about artists' pigments? You sound like one of my fellow
art conservators. I am a conservator of works of art on paper, and
specialize in the treatment of manuscript materials. The people I know who
know as much about pigments as you do are mostly artists, paintings
conservators, microscopists, materials scientists, or producers of artists'
materials. Perhaps we have interests in common that extend beyond I.
germ. Merrily
-----Original Message-----
From: Henryanner <Henryanner@aol.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <iris-l@rt66.com>
Date: Friday, January 02, 1998 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: Crayola Method of Color ID
>In a message dated 98-01-02 14:09:47 EST, you write:
>
><< Flesh became Peach in the interest of diversity and Prussian
> Blue morphed to Midnight Blue to accomodate the lack of historical depth
> among American youth. >>
>
>Well, Prussian Blue is actually a definite, specific, color pigment name.
It
>was an early eighteenth century German--"Prussian"--- attempt to find a
>replacement for true Ultramarine Blue which was made of ground lapis lazuli
>and was thus very expensive. The chemical composition is
Ferric-ferrocyanide.
>This pigment, which is still available in paints, has to some extent been
>replaced by Pthalocyanine blue.
>
>Anner Whitehead, Richmond, VA
>Henry Hall henryanner@aol.com
>
>
>
