These are the various neutralised colours we can get from green and red. It's very vibrant, just slightly less so compared to Cobalt Teal Blue and Lemon Yellow.Ĭobalt Teal Blue with New Gamboge (PY97, PY110).ĭS Cobalt Green with Quinacridone Red PV19, Quinacridone Magenta PR202 and Pyrrol Scarlet PR255. This is the non-granulating version of the bright yellow green mixture above. This is quite possibly the most vibrant yellow green mixture I've ever seen.ĭS Lemon Yellow PY175 with Phthalo Blue and French Ultramarine Oh, Cobalt colours typically don't have high tinting strength which means to get a concentrated wash of colour, you have to use more paint compared to other colours.Ĭobalt Teal Blue with DS Quinacridone Red PV19 Here we have neutralised violets mostly because of the high tinting strength of Magenta. Lighter wash of DS Cobalt Teal Blue with DS Quinacridone Magenta PR202. Lighter wash of Cobalt Teal Blue with DS Pyrrol Scarlet PR255.Ī warm red with Cobalt Teal Blue seems to produced a light neutralised gray with colour separation. One characteristic of mixtures created with Cobalt colour is the colour separation where you can still see the individual colours that were used to create the mixtures.įor these mixtures, I wanted to see what kind of purples or violets we can get by mixing Cobalt Teal Blue with reds. Daniel Smith's version appears to be more granulating while Schmincke's version appears to be more cyan.Ĭoncentrated wash of Cobalt Teal Blue with DS Pyrrol Scarlet PR255.Ĭobalt colours are usually heavily granulating colours. PG50 Cobalt Teal Blue (Daniel Smith) and Cobalt Turquoise (Schmincke) are lovely vibrant teal colours. I learned about this during a factory tour at Royal Talens.

It's usually due to the temperature at which the pigment is made into paint.

The reason why the same pigment can have different colours comes down to how the pigment was prepared.

Different colours using the same pigment is not uncommon. It was only recently when I saw Cobalt Green which also uses PG50 that I was surprised. For the longest time, I've always thought PG50 exists only as one colour, that teal pastel like colour.

Cobalt green