Prussian blue (Iron blue)
Iron blue or Prussian blue is a very old synthetic pigment, it was invented in 1704, by chance, by Heinrich Diesbach who was active in Berlin which was in then Prussia, therefore the color...
Category: Colors and pigments
Pyrrole Orange (PO71)
Pyrrole Orange is a very intense red-orange color. The pigment is not common, but only a few years ago Schmincke was the only manufacturer to have it, now there are a few more who...
What the color samples mean and how they are made
I have started by describing the properties of the colors with the help of color samples. Five different for each color. I will describe how the color samples are made and what they show....
Quinacridone Rose – PV19
Chinacridone comes in many different varieties, the most useful for the artist is probably the one who usually gets the name Quinacridone Rose. The pigment has the index name PV19 but due to its...
Van Dyke brown
Van Dyke brown is a classic color, named after the Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyck. The color is also known as cassel earth and cologne earth. The material traditionally used for the pigment is...
Manganese violet
The pigment was invented in Germany in 1868. The color is toxic, despite this it is used in cosmetics. The color is usually bluish violet, but there are also more reddish colors. It has...
Venetian red
The color Venetian red is the same as Indian red, the only difference is that Venetian red is often slightly lighter and more orange in color. The color is as old as human culture, Venetian...
Lemon yellow (PY175)
The original pigment with the name lemon yellow is Barium chromate, it has the index name PY31, the pigment is toxic and is no longer used in watercolor paint. Instead, various AZO pigments have...
Burnt Sienna
Sienna is in its original form a yellow-brown earth color. If you heat up the natural sienna pigment, it becomes redder and darker. This red and dark color is called burnt, the original is...
