Violet, Blue, Green

The blue version of the popular Phthalo Green color, clean and bright with strong tinting strength and excellent transparency. Developed in 1935 it is one of the many high quality, stable greens developed around the turn of the 19th century.

Green Gold is a mixture of highly sought after, reliable pigments – each boasting all around good qualities. It is ideal for the landscape painter to use straight from the tube or in mixing natural, earthy greens.

A light, warm spring green, this blend of Phthalo Green and Azo Yellow gives the artist a clean, bright green straight from the tube. Compared to the ever popular late Emerald Green pigment which was known to darken substantially and boasts of a completely disastrous history due to its popular use throughout the early 19th century.

Made with the Chromium Green Oxide pigment, one of the very best greens on the market today and often hard to find, blended with cadmium yellow to give you a bright natural green perfect for highlighting effects.

Vibrant, pure and an absolutely stable green, of great value in glazing and a popular alternative formulated without the powerful and dominating effects of D213 Phthalo Green. Pure and vibrant in color with excellent tinting strength.

For thousands of years green pigments were virtually unavailable, few minerals are green in color and those derived from plants produced only dull, fugitive greens. Such was the case with the original Sap Green – traditionally made from Buckthorn Berries it was a highly unpredictable color ranging from green to yellow. Classic Artist Oils gives you a lightfast blend that replaces the inferior pigment with a green than can be easily warmed or cooled when mixed to your liking.

A pale yellow green with bluish undertones making it a very difficult color to mix. Its cool qualities lend it to many southwest style paintings and it produces a nice, neutralized tone when tinted.

Derived from the Latin description of the pigment “Caeruleum” meaning ‘sky blue’ this definite green-blue is valued as an atmospheric color in mixing bright, opaque greens – especially useful in tropical scenes.

Also known as Iron Blue or Milori Blue, it is known for its tinting strenghth and deep blue mineral color. Made from the highest quality pigment in its class, it was discovered in the 18th century.

A powerful yet versatile color- this extremely intense, green biased blue has traditionally been valued for its strength, transparency and stability.

Although production of genuine Manganese has ceased as stores of this natural pigment have been exhausted worldwide- CAO would like to offer an excellent replacement for this cold, brilliant blue – its synthetic version is actually cleaner and has better lightfast properties.

Intentionally designed to achieve a primary “true-blue”, this color is specially formulated to combine and balance both red and green biased blue pigments in such a way as to retain their vibrancy and color clarity.

A true violet-blue and completely lightfast, its transparency lends itself as the only blue able to contribute to clean, bright violets and is considered a staple on most artists’ palettes.

A deep, very transparent blue, its vibrant green-blue hue must be handled with care or it will quickly dominate other colors. An essential seascape color, its transparency will give clear, vibrant blue greens when combined with either viridian or phthalo green.

Also known as Dioxazine purple and leaning a little towards blue on the color spectrum, this pigment has particularly high tinting strength and seems to be rapidly becoming a standard for the violets.

Genuine Cobalt Violet, brushed straight from the tube, has little body and slight tinting strength – yet its delicate transparency performs beautifully in many desired applications. It is also one of the few completely lightfast violets on the market.

A personal favorite for many of our artists… CAO is proud to introduce one more addition to the range of quality violets rarely found to be offered by a single manufacturer. By blending Dioxazine with a brilliant Bordeaux pigment of high color strength we present to you Platinum Violet – a unique deep violet with intense shade and beautiful tinting capabilities.

A superb transparent violet with outstanding tint strength. The bright Quinacridone pigments remain some of the greatest advancements in synthetic pigment technology as yet.