DANIEL SMITH Watercolour - 15mL - Lapis Lazuli Genuine Category_LarryPOST/Art Supplies/Charcoal

DANIEL SMITH Watercolour - 15mL - Lapis Lazuli Genuine Category_LarryPOST/Art Supplies/CharcoalLapis Lazuli has been prized for its beauty, its mystical properties, and its perfection as a pigment. Ancient civilizations believed that the veins of glittering pyrite found in the lapis were actual gold, driving up its value. The stones expense today, as in the ancient world, results from its hardness, which makes extraction difficult. Mined in the mountains of South America, this gem quality pigment is a subtle blue grey, with a classic colour

useful for mixing middle value greys

Most grays

but when applied over black becomes a glowing silver-white – like the reflection of the moon on a night-darkened sea

Quinacridones are the brightest

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vibrant mixtures

cocoa brown

The full range gives rich

permanently brilliant finish

where it was first identified in the 19th century

one 6B graphite block