viridian

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Granulation refers to the appearance of separate, visible pigment particles in the finished color, produced when the paint is substantially diluted with water and applied with a juicy brush stroke; pigments notable for their watercolor granulation include viridian (PG18), cerulean blue (PG35), cobalt violet (PV14) and some iron oxide pigments (PBr7).

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  • The mist coiled, and something like a viridian lamp burned through it. —  THE BLOOD KNIGHT
  • At edges of cliffs over oceans that invented the color blue, on greens that are primal viridian lit from the inside as though with candles: the land literally seems to glow. —  The Moderate Voice
  • Granulation refers to the appearance of separate, visible pigment particles in the finished color, produced when the paint is substantially diluted with water and applied with a juicy brush stroke; pigments notable for their watercolor granulation include viridian (PG18), cerulean blue (PG35), cobalt violet (PV14) and some iron oxide pigments (PBr7). —  WarCry Network : Latest News
  • This looks like this was painted with a fairly limited palette, probably Prussian blue for the water, viridian for the vegetation, some raw umber to tint the greens, and Venetian red for the figure and the Match Me If You Cans -- a reddish plant found in Bermuda -- on the right. —  American Artist
  • It looks like he altered this yellow with some ultramarine blue on the left, and perhaps some viridian as well. —  American Artist
 

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  1. From Latin viridis, green; see virid.
 

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