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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 20, 2026

EMERALD GREEN

PG21

SEMI-OPAQUE - STRONG - WARM

How copper acetoarsenite became the most exciting and most dangerous green on the Victorian palette, and what the modern tube labelled "Emerald Green" actually contains.

EVERY COLOR SO FAR

30

EMERALD GREEN

PG21

24

IVORY BLACK

PBk9

19

PHTHALO GREEN

PG7 / PG36

11

ULTRAMARINE

PB29

18

NAPLES YELLOW

PY41

27

CHROME YELLOW

PY34

22

INDIAN RED

PR101 / PR102

20

PERMANENT ALIZARIN CRIMSON

PR177

12

CADMIUM YELLOW

PY35

16

COBALT BLUE

PB28

26

LEAD-TIN YELLOW

PY41

23

LEAD WHITE

PW1

28

ULTRAMARINE VIOLET

PV15

13

DIOXAZINE VIOLET

PV23

17

TERRE VERTE

PG23

25

SMALT

PB32

21

LIGHT RED

PR102

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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