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Today we the conversation turns to the subject of neutral tint. What is it? How do you make it?
Coral explains…
“In 18th century England, when watercolour came of age in the form of picturesque landscape painting, one of the many issues that artists set out to resolve was the mixing of greys to shade their colours, and to cleanly reduce the saturation of both the warm and cool hues on their palette. Black pigments, such as Lamp Black, were found to lack subtlety and to corrupt the purity of other colours. In order to fulfill their aesthetic need many artists experimented, mixing their own formulas of grey and black from two or three colours. In England, these black/grey formulas became termed ‘neutral tint’ as a description of their function. Thomas Reeves who set up as a commercial color maker in London…”
