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A beautiful and useful oil paint color!
Sap Green is much like the green of sunlit leaves before an incoming storm.
It's a warm transparent green, which lends itself to layering (glazes and otherwise), giving pieces a really nice and unexpected ~moody~ depth.
(It's also WARM! Can't overstate this. No more endlessly toning down phthalo!)
Now admittedly!!!
The formulas vary from Gamblin to Windsor and Newton!
AND both formulas use more than one pigment 😔
Usually that would turn me off of a color but in this case it just doesn't, Sap Green really is just that good no matter how it's made. Having a green you don't have to mix perfectly, that wonderfully layers and transforms other colors is just too good!
Jan 28, 2025
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Really nice color
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May 10, 2025
This journey started when I was about 8/9 and my favourite youtuber at the time painted their room lime green. Thus, of course, my favourite colour had to be lime green.
This later evolved to mint green as I found the sharpness of lime to be quite jarring and outdated. Mint green was more "trendy".
Then one day I was scrolling through Pinterest and found these images of a bass guitar and some vinyl AM platform boots. They were the perfect shades of green, more muted and grey (which beleive make most colours look better).
I also discovered that the finish of the colour can be almost as important as the colour itself.
TLDR: grey-green with a preferably vinyl/glossy finish (like wet paint.)
Mar 2, 2025
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Anders Zorn is beloved for good reason. His work was so skillfully made. Zorn's sense of form in particular is really lovely (and often on display because he loved a nude).
I've seen some of his work irl, but not this piece. Zorn's paintings have a lot of presence in person, so I imagine this one is even more cozy and lively when seen in the flesh. I love the diagonal composition and the use of light, as well as her cute cheeks and socks ♡
Feb 18, 2025