CERULEAN: yellow to salmon

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

yellow to salmon

3 comments:

Leovi said...: Sublime...; September 28, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Ian Foster said...: Very nice, I love the colours and textures. Bravo!; September 29, 2010 at 8:58 AM
CERULEAN said...: Thank you Leovi and Ian!; September 29, 2010 at 11:31 PM

About the name

Cerulean is a range of colours from deep blue, skye-blue, bright blue or azure to deep cyan. The word cerulean comes from the Latin word caerulem, which means 'sky' or 'heavens' or sometimes 'oceans'.

Besides cerulean, ultramarine (cornflower blue) plays a prominent role. This pigment is natural present in the mineral lazurite, found in the valuable lapis lazuli.

From 1100 onwards this pigment, imported from Asia (China, Afghanistan), reaches the ateliers of painters in Europe, the blue of old masters Ducio, Titiaan and Vermeer.

In Italy the colour was known as Azurro Oltramarino. Literally 'the azurite coming from beyond the seas'.

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

yellow to salmon

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