[Regia-NA] Hellp

[danemitchell at comcast.net]

Egg-based paints might not survive very well through a voyage to Greenland. Great for icons, though. 

I was thinking about this a bit more, and with just the three primary colors (the ol' color wheel, kids), you can theoretically mix any color in the visible spectrum, yes? So, would not our ancestors of 1,000 years ago have been able to mix any color in the rainbow? Maybe if that was the case, then approved color lists become moot. It is a shame color photography wasn't around back then, whenever then was. 

Any thoughts? 

Thanks, 
Dane 

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From: "Douglas Sunlin" <dsunlin at hotmail.com> 

> >From what I understand, milk paints can only be dated back a few centuries, 
> while we know that gesso and tempura were in use in the 10th-11th centuries. 
> That said, I've been using acrylic. ;) 
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> -Osweald 
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> >From: danemitchell at comcast.net 
> >Reply-To: list-Regia-NA 
> >To: list-Regia-NA 
> >Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Hellp 
> >Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:26:23 +0000 
> > 
> >Hazel, if you get a moment, could you discuss not just paint colors, but 
> >perhaps more importantly to me, what kinds of paints might be correct? My 
> >understanding is there is very little understanding about paints used by 
> >the Anglo Saxons, the Norse, etc. Milk paint doesn't seem to my mind 
> >correct, but what is? What kinds of paints would the Norse have used to 
> >docorate and protect exposed woodwork, such as shields, longships, etc.? 
> >What could have taken that kind of abuse? 
> > 
> >One thing I took away from my college art history course was that the 
> >ancient world was very, very colorful, and those lovely white statues we 
> >see in museums were in fact polychromatic, maybe garishly so. 
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> >Thanks, 
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> >Dane 
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> >-------------- Original message -------------- 
> >From: "Hazel Uzzell" 
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> > > Hello Peter, 
> > > If you send me your snail mail address off group, I will send you 
> >samples 
> > > of paint colours acceptable to Regia. I could scan them to you, but I 
> >don't 
> > > trust them to be recreated accurately. 
> > > Hazel Uzzell 
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