Golden Heavy Body Acrylic - Terre Verte Historic Hue, 5 oz.

Golden Historical Artist Colors are authentic recreations of paint colors that have been in use for hundreds of years and were considered essential to the working palettes of past masters. As the pigments originally used to produce these colors were found to be unsafe or vulnerable to the effects of light and weather, they had not been offered in a Golden line of pure pigment colors.

Terre Verte Historic Hue - Terre Verte Historic Hue is a cool, muted green of the natural world. Perhaps the most well known use of Terre Verte, or green earth, has been the under painting of flesh in medieval painting. The tradition of employing greenish mixtures in rendering flesh is recorded in texts from as early as the 11th century.

Intentionally creating a weak and neutral green isn't easy with today's base primary colors. Golden blends Chromium Oxide Green, Yellow Oxide and a touch of Phthalo Green Yellow Shade, then reduces the brightness with Carbon Black, Zinc White and Raw Umber. The opacity is then adjusted with large amounts of gel medium to match all of the properties of green earth.