Reflections

Cool reflections on the water the other day! I keep getting sidetracked when I take pictures for our psychological self-portrait assignment.

Royal Purple was made with snail mucus?

I read a cool article about old pigments this morning. That snail mucus did make a lovely purple!


From Hyperallergic.com:  The colorful stories of 5 obsolete art pigments



Unfortunately, Wikipedia says I can't replicate that purple on the computer:

"Tyrian purple

Azalea Society of America hue rendering

The true colour Tyrian purple, like most high chroma pigments, cannot be accurately displayed on a computer display, nor are ancient reports entirely consistent, but these swatches give an indication of the likely range in which it appeared:

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This is the sRGB colour #990024, intended for viewing on an output device with a gamma of 2.2. It is a representation of RHS colour code 66A,^[27] which has been equated to "Tyrian red",^[28] a term which is often used as a synonym for Tyrian purple."

 Quoted from the Tyrian Purple page on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple

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