Sentences with phrase «of alizarin»

Most of Annie's colors are 18th and 20th century inspired but this one comes from the 19th century when the discovery of Alizarin Crimson made this color possible for the first time to a large number of people.

Fill two egg - cup sized containers a third of the way with turps (or white spirit) add a pea of alizarin crimson to one and a pea of violet to the other and dissolve the paint fully (preferably with a different brush to the one you will be using).

The cadmium base was a bit too shocking, and so by removing excess paint and then softly scraping a layer of alizarin crimson over it, the colour is infinitely richer.

Not exact matches

Graebe and co-worker C. Liebermann discovered that a red dye called alizarin — then made from madder, a Eurasian herb — was a derivative of anthracene, a crystalline cyclic hydrocarbon.

The duo built on the discovery to invent a commercial method of synthesizing alizarin, which became one of the early products of the German dyestuffs industry.

I love the names of the colours myself and to the non-artist these can sound wonderfully evocative... viridian, alizarin crimson, cerrulean hue, cadmium lemon... woven together to describe a piece they could sound rather poetic.

I use lamp black as a dramatic accent as well, placing the pure black in a part of the painting that is already devoted to very dark mixed blacks (alizarin crimson and phthalo green or ultramarine blue and burnt umber for example).

Each canvas began with a grounding field of fluorescent pink, down which Howard methodically dragged strips of deep Alizarin Crimson oil paint, using a T - square to shape the precise edges.

Another canvas features a patchily painted column of dense and loamy greens, with alizarin and metallic gold marginalia.

Three of these sculptures (in bright red, deep metallic alizarin crimson and green) were offered between $ 350,000 and $ 850,000 by three different galleries at Frieze art fair in New York last week.

And still, it is not hopeless: the bodies are punctuated with lively alizarin nipples and bold yellow hair, and the support between the figures is poignant as they become one body instead of two.

Then added crimson alizarin half way down and blended up and down, then added um blue to the bottom of the lake and blended up.

Colours: alizarin crimson, cadmium red, rose madder, verde green, terre verte green, ultramarine blue, cerulean blue, cobalt blue, ultramarine violet, transparent oxide of red, burnt sienna, raw umber, burnt umber, yellow ochre, lemon yellow, titanium white.

Colours: Ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, oxide of red, cerulean blue, raw sienna, manganese violet, white, lemon yellow, kings blue light, cobalt blue, naples yellow, cadmium yellow, alizarin crimson, paynes grey.

Materials Palette, palette knife, a range of brushes, primed sheets of paper - cut down from A1 to several sizes, paints: cadmium lemon; cadmium yellow; cadmium red; alizarin crimson; cobalt blue; ultramarine blue; phthalo blue

There are many varieties of each colour available, but for these exercises you'll only need to buy a restricted palette of the following basic colours: titanium white, lamp or ivory black, yellow ochre, alizarin crimson, cadmium red, cadmium lemon, cadmium yellow, cobalt blue and ultramarine blue.

Materials Palette, palette knife, range of brushes, three primed A4 sheets of paper, paints: titanium white; cadmium lemon; cadmium yellow; cadmium red; alizarin crimson; ultramarine blue; cobalt blue

Next, create ranges of violet, using each possible combination of the different blue and red co-primaries - start with alizarin crimson and ultramarine blue, which both have violet overtones.

In the corner of the annex sits Alizarin Crimson Corner Piece (1974), a painting made on canvas shaped to fit the three sides of a corner.

At a first glance, the images in Parsonage's paintings might seem somewhat incongruous; a bloated frog with a glazed expression named Alice; a volcano cast in alizarin hues, emitting hot lava and toxic fumes; a crowd of drinkers with gangly limbs painted in an acrid rose palette, not dissimilar to a flock of flamingoes.

LB: My first palette consisted of, going around from the bottom left of the palette and moving along the outer edge to the top right or middle of the right edge: titanium white, zinc yellow, cadmium yellow light, naples yellow, yellow ochre, alizarin crimson, cadmium red light, venetian red, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, cerulean blue, virdian green, chromium oxide green, ivory black, burnt sienna, raw umber.