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What are the 10 best colors?

Simon

*My favorite colors

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#10 Phthalo Green

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#10 Phthalo Green

  • Beautiful Color
  • Synthetic Pigment
  • Copper based
  • Varied Chemicals
    • (C32H3Cl13CuN8) (C32HCl15CuN8)
  • Mixes well with Blue & Green

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#9 Sky Blue

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#9 Sky Blue

  • Beautiful Color
  • Reminiscent of the sky
  • Slightly Green > Red
  • Great strong pigments
    • Cerulean
      • cobalt stannate (Co2SnO4)
    • Ultramarine
      • (Na8–10Al6Si6O24S2–4)

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#8 Black

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#8 Black

  • Beautiful Color
  • Defined by reflections
  • Painting must be 90%
    • Otherwise is grey
  • India Ink or Lampblack
    • Pure Carbon
  • Mars Black
    • Iron Oxide (Fe3O4)

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#7 Heliotrope

Purple Magenta

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#7 Heliotrope

  • Beautiful Color
  • Named After the Flower
  • Unheard of name
    • Technically Heliotrope Magenta
  • Warm Rich
  • No clear direct pigment

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#6 Magenta

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#6 Magenta

  • Beautiful Color
  • A True Primary Color
    • Blue and Red are Posers
    • CMY Gang
  • Color was Inspired by Fuchsia
  • Synthetic Color
  • Renamed after the Italian-French victory at the Battle of Magenta
  • Mostly used in printing

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Honorable Mentions

  • Yellow
  • Safety Green
  • Neon Green
  • Blue, Phthalo Blue
  • White
  • Orange Brown
  • Copper, Silver, Gold
  • Metallic Pigments

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Shout out to Grey Cars! (Putty Cars for google search)

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#5 Red Brown

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#5 Red Brown

  • Beautiful Color
  • Desaturated Red Orange
  • Usually Mars Series
    • Iron Oxides FeII to FeIII
    • (Fe3-13O4-19)
  • Strong pigments
  • Great for wood, rocks, rust

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#3 Yellow Green

Beautiful Color

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#3 Teal

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#3 Teal

  • Beautiful Color
  • Lower Saturation Green- Blue
  • Pears really well with Pinks, Reds, and Coppers
  • Usually a Green-Cyan

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#2 Neon Orange

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#2 Neon Orange

  • Beautiful Color
  • Traffic Cones bring me joy
  • Warm Glow of a fire
  • Fluorescent pigment makes “brighter”
  • Unfortunately unstable pigment
  • 880o C or 2600o American

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Dishonorable Mentions

  • Fluorescent Pigments
    • Are not light fast
  • Zink White
    • Sunscreen
    • Terrible Coverage
  • Micah Pigments
    • Not very shiny

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#1 RED!!!

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Beautiful Color

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Great Pigments

  • Vermillion/Cinnebar
    • Mercury Sulfide (toxic)
  • Cadmium Red, Arsenic Red
    • Don’t lick your brush
  • Mars Red/Red Ocher
    • Iron Oxide
    • Actually great

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High Saturation

  • Shades well with Blue, Black, Green
  • Dark shadows for Blue, Orange, Yellow, Green
  • Has to Highlight with
    • white/pink
    • orange

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Obviously the best Color

Best Colour in England