Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trade-name for the pigment cobalt yellow (which see, under
yellow ).
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Examples
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Compounded with blues and bright yellows such as aureolin, it gives fine autumnal russet greens.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Pigment absorption affects all palette mixtures, and, failing to obtain a satisfactory yellow by mixture of red and green, painters use original yellow pigments, -- such as aureolin, cadmium, and lead chromate, -- each of them also impure but giving a dominant sensation of yellow.
A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma 1888
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Pale cadmium yellow with or without aureolin, is adapted for golden sunsets, and yields with French blue a beautiful sea-green.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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To our knowledge, aureolin is quite uninjured by the severest tests to which a pigment can be subjected.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Used with white, it yields a range of sunny tones; and with aureolin or French blue and aureolin will be found of service, the last compound giving a fine olive green.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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In these respects, aureolin and ultramarine, gamboge and Prussian blue, Indian yellow and indigo, are all judicious mixtures, although not all to be recommended.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Having in common with cadmium sulphides a certain amount of transparency, it is invaluable for gorgeous sunsets and the like, either alone or compounded with aureolin.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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The artistic properties of aureolin, however, will be best described by quoting the following extract from Mr. Aaron Penley's _English School of Painting in Water
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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With all other colours aureolin mixes safely and readily, forming combinations of the utmost variety and value.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Most noteworthy are aureolin, the deep and 'pale' cadmiums, lemon yellow, Mars yellow, the modern Naples yellow, the ochres, orient yellow, and raw sienna.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
mollusque commented on the word aureolin
Cobalt yellow.
January 6, 2008