What a brilliant colour! And brilliant work too @Kathlyn Powell! I wonder if some people see this colour as a blue, and some as a purple - I love strange, in-between colours like this!
I was privileged to be one of the first artists to use Mas Blue is a painting. Mas Subramanian, the inventor -- a wonderful person, by the way, a delight to talk to -- used that painting in his color introduction presentation. The pigment is a brilliant slightly lavender blue, somewhere between ultramarine and carbazole or dioxazine violet, but closer to UB. It is quite opaque -- at least the samples he sent me from the lab were. It makes a very superior gouache. I suppose a finer grind might reduce opacity somewhat.
Here is the painting I did using Mas Blue (along with PV23)
Absolutely, they hadn't 'discovered' all the elements of the Periodic Table yet! (or if they had, they didn't let on!) I love all the strange sounding weird elements hidden away in the Periodic table such as Yttrium and all the volatile ones, and especially the noble gases! Manganese - now manganese oxides do create wonderful colours. Manganese blue is a good early sky colour (before lapis and gold became the standard default sky colours in classical miniatures). My own manganese blue is in the very bottom left corner of that photo, looks more vibrant in real life!
I heard about this new synthetic blue pigment today. Here is more info about it from a blog someone posted on Facebook.https://hyperallergic.com/615971/meet-yinmn-the-first-new-shade-of-blue-in-two-centuries/ It is interesting to note that it was made from Yttrium, Indium, Manganese and water heated at a super high temperature. Not exactly something a medieval alchemist would stumble upon.
What a brilliant colour! And brilliant work too @Kathlyn Powell! I wonder if some people see this colour as a blue, and some as a purple - I love strange, in-between colours like this!
I was privileged to be one of the first artists to use Mas Blue is a painting. Mas Subramanian, the inventor -- a wonderful person, by the way, a delight to talk to -- used that painting in his color introduction presentation. The pigment is a brilliant slightly lavender blue, somewhere between ultramarine and carbazole or dioxazine violet, but closer to UB. It is quite opaque -- at least the samples he sent me from the lab were. It makes a very superior gouache. I suppose a finer grind might reduce opacity somewhat.
Here is the painting I did using Mas Blue (along with PV23)
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Absolutely, they hadn't 'discovered' all the elements of the Periodic Table yet! (or if they had, they didn't let on!) I love all the strange sounding weird elements hidden away in the Periodic table such as Yttrium and all the volatile ones, and especially the noble gases! Manganese - now manganese oxides do create wonderful colours. Manganese blue is a good early sky colour (before lapis and gold became the standard default sky colours in classical miniatures). My own manganese blue is in the very bottom left corner of that photo, looks more vibrant in real life!
I heard about this new synthetic blue pigment today. Here is more info about it from a blog someone posted on Facebook.https://hyperallergic.com/615971/meet-yinmn-the-first-new-shade-of-blue-in-two-centuries/ It is interesting to note that it was made from Yttrium, Indium, Manganese and water heated at a super high temperature. Not exactly something a medieval alchemist would stumble upon.