Re: Color Mixing (Pigment) question

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

and I used photo magenta and photo cyan and got black.    regular yell
and photo cyan;  green.  the former on paper and in a phial diluted w/
water;  ~ one drop each.  When viewed w/ sun as light source it's a blu.

bc,   who found another use for those refill inks.

Brian Whatcott wrote:

> At 02:05 PM 5/19/2004,  Vickie, you wrote:
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> > Actually, I have done the experiment, but I admit that I have not done it
> > recently. As per the ongoing discussion, the physics will differ
> > considerably depending on whether you're using oil paints, water colors,
> > printer dyes, crayons (remember crayons?), colored chalk, pastels, color
> > filters, computer programs, or mixing colored powders such as those used in
> > sand art.
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> > Vickie
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> > That's a nice theory.  But have you done the experiment?
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> Vickie probably did a pigment mix years ago.
> But then again, I did a pigment mix 2 minutes ago.
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> From a set of kid's acrylics, I took a brushful  of green
>  (there was only one green) and a brushful  of blue
> (there was only one blue) and I mixed them on
> brilliant white cartridge paper taken from my printer.
> And I got a color that I used to call 'turquoise'.
> Not exactly cyan, I don't think but far, far from black.
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> Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!