![]() Then I do what I started doing a few years ago now, I use clear varnish, the type used on wood to create a translucent wing. I paint in the shadows, the veins the lighter parts I leave white, ( or in watercolour I leave the white of the paper. Then I began to look as carefully as I could at the wings. With this one I drew a simple outline and the used a few dots of masking fluid to mask out the highlights. So where was I? Oh yes bees, they are returning to Devon, buzzing happily around the garden and I love to paint them. So be kind to yourself, paint when you are feeling in the right mood and always stop when you are tired, then return refreshed the next day I can get in a muddle and can't figure out where to go next and often ruin a piece. However I also get tired, lose concentration and rush things. I love bees and have been painting them for a while, I try to adapt my style, I try to make my paintings the best they can be. ![]() My mum was down for a few days and it has been a while since we could all be together so shades on and a wander around the garden was just what the doctor ordered. There was a whole new garden to wonder at, and bees were buzzing all over the place. Bees are buzzing everywhere, we headed for Rosemoor the RHS garden near us to take in the Spring flowers. Just make sure to wear facial protection, as the dust of cobalt pigments can be very poisonous and toxic.Here in Devon, in fact I think most of the UK has had some lovely Spring sunshine, enabling us to get out and about, watch the earth begin really getting into it's Spring. If you want to make a paint tube just for yourself, 100g probably be just fine. You can also buy smaller quantities of those pigments. It’s not as light as the shade that Golden offered, but still a good option. Cobalt are natural driers, and the last thing you want to see dry in a tube. Some paint suppliers stopped selling it because it’s much harder to stabilize than traditional pigments – notably more so in acrylics. I’d like to point out that the teal shade (blue-green) of PG 50, usually called “Cobalt Teal Blue” or “Cobalt Turquoise”, is still widely available. ![]() Although this story has been repeated many times I, in my capacity as a (very) amateur historian, researched the story and discovered that it might all be nonsense with no real basis in fact. Why notorious? It has been said, and repeated many time, that this paint was made in a vile process by feeding cows in India with certain types of leaves, that turned their urine yellow, and this was the foundation of the paint. In addition Rowney and one or two others called it `Indian Yellow, supposedly a replacement for the notorious original Indian Yellow. Both have already reformulated with a multi pigment mix. Although not offered by a huge number of paint makers PY153 was the pigment used by both Winsor & Newton and Daniel Smith for the popular New Gamboge paints. As has been pointed out previously makers of watercolour or other types of paint are very much at the bottom of the pile and have to take whatever is available. “In 2012 the popular pigment PY153 Nickel Dioxine Yellow was discontinued, no doubt because of lack of demand from the chemical and/or auto industries. PY153, bright tranasparent indian yellow color, nickel dioxine yellow pigment is also discontinued. It is sad to hear that PG50 now is not available for artistic use. Therefore, Golden replaced it with actual pigments. Pigment manufacturer discontinued Cobalt Titanate PG50 production. But if they do eventually offer the Titan Green Pale in their Heavy Body acrylics I will give it a try. I was thinking about getting the Cobalt Titanate Green…as it wasn’t as expensive as the other cobalt colors, and I like the light, somewhat pastel look…my colors usually end up too dark and heavy so this would be a useful color to have. ![]() I don’t use Open, so the Titan Green Pale replacement is not an option for me. But I chose to post them without any Photoshop color modification…because if I tweak the colors to look more ‘just right’ on my display, it might make it more ‘off’ on other people’s displays.ĪJ, it’s too bad the Cobalt Titanate Green is no longer available. On my monitor, my samples look accurate in terms of hue, but a bit greyer than real life. ![]() I suppose it’s possible that the Blick samples might look more accurate on some displays…and mine less so. ![]()
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