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  • Colors such as vermillion, cadmium orange, pink madder, phthalo green, mars violet, flesh ochre and iridescent bright bronze still remain available today.

    Hayley Griffith: Maison Sennelier: Color Inspiration From Paris Hayley Griffith 2011

  • Colors such as vermillion, cadmium orange, pink madder, phthalo green, mars violet, flesh ochre and iridescent bright bronze still remain available today.

    Hayley Griffith: Maison Sennelier: Color Inspiration From Paris Hayley Griffith 2011

  • He would have started with phthalo-blue brush strokes in the sky, and cumulus clouds with alizarin tinge.

    Nutrition 2010

  • He would have started with phthalo-blue brush strokes in the sky, and cumulus clouds with alizarin tinge.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • A pointillist mish-mash of tints in cerulean, cobalt, and phthalo blue, with areas of magenta, egg yolk, purple, and green flecks to add interest.

    madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2001

  • Most of the buildings in Kymil, Caris noticed, were rather plainly built, and often garishly painted, pink or daffodil or a hard phthalo blue.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • He turned and faced Caris in the intense, phthalo darkness of the summer night, his eyes nothing but shadows under the star-edged dome of his bald forehead.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • A medium-strength wash of Payne's gray smoke rose against a phthalo blue sky.

    News 2011

  • The lamp shade is painted on the sides in what he calls "Museum Blue" (textured, translucent tones of burnt umber and phthalo blue).

    Luxist Deidre Woollard 2010

  • The lamp shade is painted on the sides in what he calls "Museum Blue" (textured, translucent tones of burnt umber and phthalo blue).

    Luxist Deidre Woollard 2010

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