Prussian Blue - Confessions of a Nocturne Painter
Perspectives from The Artist's Road
It started innocently enough, as I suppose these things do in the beginning. It quickly grew into something deeper and more complicated, my love for this color. It was a chance meeting, a casual thing I often do, hanging out in art supply stores, introducing myself to other oil paint colors and bringing them back to my place for the night, or maybe longer.
As I look back now, this meet-up was probably inevitable. It was a time when I was restlessly walking the streets at night, searching for the perfect Nocturne subject to spend my evenings with. But no matter what I tried, no mixes could answer my need for the perfect dark color which could express my deepest desires and visions of the night. Sure, I had sampled all the blacks around - Mars, Pyrelene, Ivory, Lamp, even Gamblin’s Chromatic, but none of them could satisfy me. I needed a deep color which could mate up and expand my palette in the darkest way. Then I met Prussian Blu…
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