Week 3
Tips on how to see tone
- Squint
- Wear red lensed glasses
- Take a photo of your painting with a black and white filter
- Look at your art in a darkened room
- View your painting from a distance
Week 1
Bouguereau’s full palette
- White lead (Silver White) Lead carbonate
- Ivory Black Charred Ivory
- Minium Lead
- Vermilion Mercuric sulphide
- Brown Madder Iron (charred)
- Cassius Red Tin bioxide and gold protoxide
- Iodine Scarlet (English) Mercuric iodine
- Purple Red Mercuric chromate
- Madder Lake [preparatation from madder root]
- Mineral Yellow (Paris) Oxi-chloride of lead
- Charred Massicot Lead bioxide and protoxide
- Minium, orange Charred ceruse (lead)
- Chrome Lead Chromate
- Orpiment (King’s Yellow) Arsenic sulphide or yellow sulphide of arsenic
- Naples Yellow Lead oxide and antimony
- Ochre Hydrated ferric oxide
- Indian Yellow [precipitated urine of caged cows]
- Prussian Blue Iron protoxide sulphate and prussiate solution
- Mineral Blue Iron
- Ultramarine Blue Lapis Lazuli
- Cobalt Cobalt
- Smalt Powdered cobalt glass
- Ash Blue Copper
- Indigo Vegetable
- Violet Charred iron peroxide Cassius purple and alumina
- Verdigris Copper acetate
- Scheele Green Copper arsenate
- Mountain Green Copper carbonate
- Chrome Blue Chromium protoxide
- Cobalt Blue (mineral) Cobalt and zinc
- Viridian Sulfate of lime and copper aceto-arsenite
- Green Earth silica, iron oxide
- Sap Green Unripe buckthom berries (lake)
- Cassel Earth [coal byproduct]
- Cologne Earth Natural earth darkened mostly with bitumen
- Umber Natural earth colored with ferric oxide, manganese dioxide plus a little bitumen
- Sienna Ochreous natural earth and manganese (bioxide?) hydrate
- Prussian Brown Charred Prussian Blue
- Asphaltum
- Bitumen
- Mummy Asphaltum and bone ash
- Yellow Lake Albumen colored with Avignon yellow grains
- Cadmium Cadmium sulfide
- Azure or smalt Powdered cobalt glass
