Re: Re: Color standards
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: Color standards
- From: M* D* G*
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 18:56:14 -0700
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> From: ChatOWhitehall@aol.com
> To: iris-talk@egroups.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] Re: Color standards
> Date: Saturday, September 09, 2000 3:07 PM
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> 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
Pigments in watercolors and pigments in ink are both pigments. And paper is
paper no mater what kind. All will age and change.
A 40 year old color chart is a nice collectors Item.
Mike Greenfield a 40+ year veteran printer
who gets very unhappy when his boss gives him a 10 year old color standard
to match.
