Field's Chromatography: or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by ArtistsField, George
Science
Field's Chromatography: or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
Field, George
Color; Colors; Painting -- Technique
3. A permanent pigment added to a semi-stable pigment yields a
semi-stable mixture.
4. A permanent pigment added to a fugitive pigment yields a fugitive
mixture.
Consequently--
5. A permanent pigment may be rendered fugitive or semi-stable by
improper compounding.
6. A semi-stable or fugitive pigment is not rendered durable by being
compounded.
7. As a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, so a mixture is
only as permanent as its least durable constituent.
To give illustrations--
1. Ultramarine added to Chinese white yields a permanent mixture.
2. Ultramarine added to an acid constant white yields a semi-stable or
fugitive mixture.
3. Ultramarine added to Prussian blue yields a semi-stable mixture.
4. Ultramarine added to indigo yields a fugitive mixture.
Except in the second instance, where the blue is either partially or
wholly destroyed--in time, be it remembered, not at once--according to
the quantity and strength of the acid in the white, the ultramarine
remains unchanged. Hence at first sight our third and fourth conclusions
may appear wrong; inasmuch as, it may be argued, a blue mixture cannot
be semi-stable or fugitive when blue is left. To this we reply, unless
both constituents are fugitive, a mixture will always more or less
possess colour; but, if even one constituent be semi-stable or fugitive,
a mixture will slowly but surely lose _the_ colour for which it was
compounded, and be _as a mixture_ semi-stable or fugitive.
It need hardly be observed that the number of permanent orange, green,
and purple hues which the artist can compound, depends mainly on the
number of permanent yellows, reds, and blues at his disposal. In mixed
orange, therefore, a selection of durable yellows and reds is of the
first importance. It should, however, be remarked that mixed orange,
more sober and less decided, is obtainable by the use of citrine and
russet; in the former of which yellow predominates, and in the latter,
red: consequently orange results when yellow is added to russet, red to
citrine, or citrine to russet.
PERMANENT YELLOWS. | PERMANENT REDS.
|
Aureolin. | Cadmium Red.
Cadmium, deep. | Liquid Rubiate.
Cadmium, pale. | Madder Carmine.
Lemon Yellow. | Rose Madder.
Mars Yellow. | Mars Red.
Naples Yellow, modern. | Ochres.
Ochres. | Vermilions.
Orient Yellow. |
Raw Sienna. |
None of these pigments react on each other, and from them can be
produced the most durable mixed orange that yellow and red will afford.
161. NEUTRAL ORANGE,
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