Re: Color standards
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- Subject: Re: Color standards
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- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 18:07:59 EDT
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Fred Kerr said;
<<Looks like the Ridgeway color standards goes on my list of artifacts. In
practice I find the color standards difficult to use. Of course the iris in
hand never quite matches the samples because the samples, after all, are ink
on paper and not pigments in tissue.>>
Note there is no E in Ridgway.
In the Ridgway book the samples are not printed. They were hand laid on paper
in watercolor and the chips were fixed into the book. The pages are
interleaved with translucent paper and while the reliance on fugitive
pigments was minimized, one is urged to protect the samples from light.
This color chart was especially suited for the irises to circa 1940 since it
is very rich in the violets and deep red tones. Read more about it in AIS
Bulletin 6, available from HIPS as a photocopy.
Anner, in Virginia
ChatOWhitehall@aol.com
