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To: fluorescence

I remember my art teacher fifty years ago in Tulsa looking at an oil painting on display at the Tulsa County Library and exclaiming to her teacher husband,....”OH MY GOD! HE USED BLACK!”

I did not know black was “verboten” in art work till that moment.


22 posted on 01/19/2023 2:47:39 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

It is generally better to use a very dark color to using actual pure black. Black can be used to darken, but there is seldom good reason to put pure black on a painting, as almost nothing you would be painting would be or appear to be such.


36 posted on 01/20/2023 9:09:21 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Black paint apparently creates issues for oil painting

https://garybolyer.com/2011/08/11/should-you-use-black-or-not-for-the-serious-oil-painter-it-is-a-serious-question/


37 posted on 01/20/2023 2:11:53 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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