![]() ![]() ![]() Sorry if I may be repeating myself, but to clarify some of these posts, probably the most common shade of ultramarine is the “French Ultramarine” blue which is more purple than cobalt blue. Thus endeth the word of Cannon on That Which Is Blue. Otherwise, pick up some cobalt and explore the subtle ways in which it differs from ultramarine.Īfter you’ve explored all of the above, you may want to invest in the oddball blues - Indathrene, smalt, cobalt teal, blue ochre, and whatever concoction goes into any given company’s King’s Blue. It’s like cerulean with a jolt of electricity running through it. So let’s just say that cerulean and pthalo go into slots 3 and 4, and the question of which comes first depends on the state of one’s wallet.Īfter that…well, I like manganese, if you can get it. You can whip up a pretty decent cerulean substitute with pthalo and white. I’m tempted to say cerulean, but that’s not a cheap color. For John Singer Sargent, Prussian was the ONLY blue - and a lot of people think that his paintings turned out all right. ![]() It mixes nice greens and makes for wonderful blacks (if you add a dab of something dark and warm). It mixes toward purple like no other blue, but also “goes green” fairly well.Ī close second: Prussian blue. For such a painter, the first blue probably should be ultramarine. Cobalt has its charm, but I could not justify recommending it to a beginning painter on a tight budget. ![]()
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