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  • He didn't get the hang of making his own paints overnight, finding that cobalts and cadmiums worked best for him when ground again and again ("I try to make it as fine as I can get it, so that the maximum amount of light can travel through it, to create a stained glass effect") but that viridian became dull ("just the color green") if it were ground too much.

    Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints Daniel Grant 2011

  • He didn't get the hang of making his own paints overnight, finding that cobalts and cadmiums worked best for him when ground again and again ("I try to make it as fine as I can get it, so that the maximum amount of light can travel through it, to create a stained glass effect") but that viridian became dull ("just the color green") if it were ground too much.

    Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints Daniel Grant 2011

  • He didn't get the hang of making his own paints overnight, finding that cobalts and cadmiums worked best for him when ground again and again ("I try to make it as fine as I can get it, so that the maximum amount of light can travel through it, to create a stained glass effect") but that viridian became dull ("just the color green") if it were ground too much.

    Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints Daniel Grant 2011

  • He didn't get the hang of making his own paints overnight, finding that cobalts and cadmiums worked best for him when ground again and again ("I try to make it as fine as I can get it, so that the maximum amount of light can travel through it, to create a stained glass effect") but that viridian became dull ("just the color green") if it were ground too much.

    Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints Daniel Grant 2011

  • I was walking down the street infront of my college and saw one of the chevy cobalts with the Google name on the side and some camera on top.

    Google Maps Street View Heads Overseas Duncan Riley 2005

  • She wore antique mettanite struts, and a tiara of cobalts and diamonds, and she advanced in her own warm front of orange blossom fog.

    Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

  • Anyway, if my wife ever finds out how much time and money I spend looking for the old Teac studio 52's and cobalts at least I know who to blame.

    The strange world of German cassette collectors 2004

  • But the strict stability which is a feature in smalt when used for painting on glass and enamel does not follow it to the studio: both in water and oil its beauty soon decays, as is often the case with other vitrified pigments; nor is it in other respects eligible, being, notwithstanding its richness and depth, very inferior to the cobalts preceding.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

  • For the latter, cheap cobalts and ultramarines are preferably substituted, although they do not yield greens of like power and intensity.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

  • In permanent blues the palette is very deficient, the list being exhausted when the native and artificial ultramarines and the cobalts have been mentioned.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

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