To see Marion Pennell © 's 2001 Paintings

November 10, 2001
The pigments I am using (and mixing all other colours from) are the colours that I painted the fireman with. Basically black & white, blue, a bit of purple and yellow.

-Titanium Dioxide (white)
-Black made from amorphous carbon (C) or charred animal bone
-Paynes Gray made with black and ultramarine (silicates of sodium (Na) and aluminum (Al) with sulfur (S))

-Carbazole (C12H9N) Dioxazine (purple)
-Copper (Cu) Phthalocyanine (C32H18N8) (blue with green tint)
--Blues made with black (indigo) or white (steel blue) & above purple mixed with Chlorinated Copper Phthalocyanine (greener)

-Arylide Yellow (lemon)
-Mars Yellow/Yellow ochre is natural hydrated iron oxide (iron oxides make blacks, reds, browns - calcined, add manganese (Mn))
-My Naples yellow is made with white, mars yellow and Cadmium (Cd) Zinc (Zn) sulfide (Naples Yellow used to made with Antimony (Sb), but it, and pigments of Lead (Pb) and Chromium (Cr) are too toxic to make anymore)

there are no reds in any of the paintings (the only greens are those mixed by the above blues & yellows)
but I will do one 12"x12" of poppies that will have brilliant red and green, and therefore stand out
poppies grow on battlefields (the litter of battle nourishes them)
and poppy fields for the opium trade are abundant in Afghanistan
and Canada - Remembrance Day (because of them growing on battlefields)

Reds are made from Perylene, Naphthol (C10H8O), Iron Oxide, Cadmium Seleno-Selenide (with Barium (Ba) sulfate), Perinone, Quinacridone, Dihydroxy anthaquinone (C14H8O2) on alumina base



Other blues are made of oxides of cobalt (Co) & aluminum (Al), tin (Sn) or chromium (Cr)- (Cobalt & Cerulean) or Ferriammonium Ferrocyanide (Fe(CN)6) (Prussian blue)
Indanthrone (blue), Isoindolinone (yellow), and Benzimidazolone (yellows & orange) are other bases but I don't know their shades.
I don't think they use real indigo (C16H10N2O2)

There are almost NO green pigments