I discussed it exclusively in the blog post Favorite Paint Mixtures: Cerulean. Row 3: Name: Cerulean (PB 35) Manufacturer: Blue Ridge Oil Colors My Thoughts: The Blue Ridge Cerulean is also made with PB 35, and for the past five years it has been my predominant cerulean squeezed out on my palette. It is a joy to use and I have so much fun when it is squeeze out on my palette. I choose to use this in my painting when I want a slightly stronger effect and mixing power with other pigments. It is creamy and texture and mixes on the opaque site because it is so dense in pigments. This cerulean is a fine-grained pigmently dense oil color that is a pure saturated middle-of-the-road blue-green cerulean. Row 2: Name: Cerulean (PB 35) Manufacturer: Williamsburg Handmade Oil Colors My Thoughts: The Williamsburg cerulean is made with PB 35, same to the other manufacturer examples except for Vasari. I love how it is a bit more green than the other manufacturer’s cerulean blues and at times I will choose to use this cerulean just because it is such a stunning color and I just want to revel in its beauty and share it in the painting. The colors straight from the tube is more reminiscent to me as the blue-green of a piquant feather-almost cobalt turquoise-that is just a smudge off from a purely saturated color, when comparing it to the other cerulean’s manufactured.Įven with its pure form being slightly desaturated, Vasari cerulean is a fantastic color to have at your disposal.
It is one of the more finely grained cerulean’s, with an opaque covering effect. Because of this slight pigment difference the Vasari cerulean is a deeper more richly blue-green. Row 1: Name: Cerulean (PB 36) Manufacturer: Vasari Classic Artists’ Oil Colors My Thoughts: The Vasari cerulean is made with PB 36, where all other manufacturers use PB 35. You can mix fantastic grays, purples, and greens on your palette with this pigment, and visually it also mixes well on the canvas when you lay a pure cerulean tint over a color saturated underlayer.Īll in all, I just love working with cerulean. If a pigment is “bullying” in its staining and mixing traits I will shy away from using them regularly because it is so easy to go overboard and then my painting begins to be visually dominated with that specific color.Ĭerulean is a color that “plays well” with all pigments. It is my belief that an artist must become intimately acquainted with each pigment used on their palette, this means you need to understand its physical and mixing properties, along with knowing if the pigment “plays well” with other pigments utilized on your palette. Currently I am working on a painting with a muted but lush background and only the semi-opaque, large grained quality of the Blue Ridge Cerulean will do because of its enabling properties to create the visual vibrations of broken color so well.
#CERULEAN BLUE BEE PLUS#
(I wrote a blog post four plus years ago all about my cerulean favorite paint mixtures)īecause of the diversity and how manufacturers produce cerulean, I have found at times that I squeeze out as many as three different cerulean’s on my palette, this happened when I was working on the blue quilt in the double portrait of my daughter and her friend.Īt other times, when I begin a painting, I think about what I want to achieve color-wise and decide before I start the painting which cerulean will best meet my painting goals. I think an afternoon spent exploring and fiddling with different mixtures that cerulean can create is time well spent. And when cerulean is mixed with earth pigments, it will make lustrous and soft grays (mixed with umbers) or muted greens (mixed with ochres). It is a granular pigment that mixes in a muted way with other more fine-grained pigments, such as quinacridone rose or viridian. What I value most about this oil color is its soft blue that leans towards green. Even with this difference from manufacturer to manufacturer, I love incorporating this pigment into my paint mixtures. Cerulean (PB 35 or PB 36)Information: Semi-Opaque to Opaque depending on the manufacturer’s pigment Handling Characteristics: a beautiful, lower strength pigment that mixes well alone with white, and with most every pigment on my palette.Ĭerulean blue is one of my favorite oil colors and I always have it out and use it often.Įach manufacturer mills their cerulean blue differently, so for one manufacturer cerulean may be an opaque paint, and where another may be semi-opaque.
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