Art Spectrum® Spectrum Blue Soft Round Pastel shades.
Spectrum Blue is a very vibrant and versatile blue formed from combing two classic pigments – Ultramarine and Phthalocyanine Blue. In effect it reproduces many of the characteristics of the great Cobalt Blue, but with the added economical and health advantages. Incidentally, the modern Cobalt blue, so loved by painters like Renoir and Van Gogh (Vincent once declared to his brother Theo that “Cobalt [blue] is a divine colour and there is nothing so beautiful for putting atmosphere around things”), was only discovered in 1802 by the French chemist, Louis Jacques Thénard.
However, we find earlier forms used for centuries in Chinese ceramics and European painting throughout the Middle Ages during which time it was made from coloured glass. Have you ever wondered what Cobalt means? It comes from the Middle German kobold, the name given to a variety of supernatural creatures from Germanic folklore, including the goblins that were believed to inhabit the silver mines in which the ore was also found. Kobald can, in turn, be traced back to the ancient Greek kobal’os (κόβᾶλ-ος), or ‘impudent rogue’ or ‘arrant knave’!
 Spectrum Blue 524P |
PB29; PB15:3 |
 Spectrum Blue 524T |
PB29; PW6; PB15:3 |
