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OIL PAINT COLOR MIXING

THE PIGMENT LIBRARY

One color every day. What the pigment actually is, what it does when it meets other colors, and how the old masters used it. Built for portrait painters who are tired of guessing.

LATEST COLOR

August 12, 2026

PHTHALO GREEN

PG7 (C.I. 74260) and PG36 (C.I. 74265)

SEMI-OPAQUE - MODERATE - WARM

One tube with the tinting strength of a dye, a history measured in decades not centuries, and three habits that separate the painters who use it from the painters it uses.

EVERY COLOR SO FAR

19

PHTHALO GREEN

PG7 (C.I. 74260) and PG36 (C.I. 74265)

11

ULTRAMARINE

PB29

18

NAPLES YELLOW

PY41

20

PERMANENT ALIZARIN CRIMSON

PR177

12

CADMIUM YELLOW

PY35

16

COBALT BLUE

PB28

28

ULTRAMARINE VIOLET

PV15

13

DIOXAZINE VIOLET

PV23

17

TERRE VERTE

PG23

29

TRANSPARENT RED OCHRE

PR101

14

CADMIUM ORANGE

PO20

From the studio

THE COLOR MIXING BOOK LIBRARY

The books work the same way this page does - every mix sampled from a real finished painting rather than a color wheel. Three volumes so far, from the portrait palette to the masters' own mixes.

FREE SKIN TONE CHEAT SHEET

The four classical flesh recipes on one printable page - the sheet that hangs by my easel.

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