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scribes digest        Saturday, April 8 2000        Volume 02 : Number 1509



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    [scribes]: Gouache Colors

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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 00:39:33 -0400
From: Elyse Boucher <70521.3645@compuserve.com>
Subject: [scribes]: Gouache Colors

Greetings!

I'm surprised no one has taken a crack at this!

It's a bit hard to give the perfect set of recommendations, but this is
what I would buy if I needed to start out and knew what I know now. ;-)

Colors I would ABSOLUTELY BUY are listed first, with colors that I consider
necessary but would cut if I had little money in parenthesis.

Reds: Cadmium red Medium, Madder Carmine, (Cadmium red light).

Yellows: Cadmium Yellow Medium, (Cadmium yellow light)

Blues: Ultramarine Blue, (Ultramarine Blue Deep)

Greens: Viridian

Neutrals: Lampblack, Titanium White

Metallic: Gold, 2 tubes.

This is an expensive palette, even at half price, so I would recommend
everyone pool their money together and split the tubes. Take some of that
money and buy some nice palettes, with deep wells, and divvy up the
gouache. Better yet, buy a series of six-well pallets and make tints with
each color in the palette.

If there is still money to be spent, get yellow ochre, burnt sienna,
chromium oxide, a light fast rose color, and whatever bluish-violet is in
the W&N line AND is "A" or "AA" for permanence.

You have to have the orange-red (Cad Red) and the blue-red (Madder Carmine)
to get a decent purple (Carmine and Ultramarine) or a decent orange (cad
yellow and cad red). You'll also get a mud-green that will substitute
adequately for Chromium Oxide with the Ultramarine and the Cad Yellow, and
a nice set of medieval greens by lightening the Viridian with the Cad
Yellow or the White--choose according to the green you are emulating.

I'm sure that others will have recommendations, too.   I hope this is
helpful to you.

Your servant, Merouda Pendray.

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