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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 π
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
Sep 18, 2024
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This later evolved to mint green as I found the sharpness of lime to be quite jarring and outdated.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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I love all shades of green really but the deep velvet green of a Christmas ribbon and the lucious summer pea green are two top tier ones
Dec 29, 2024
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Lately I've been spending too much time scouring every corner of eBay I can for the cheapest and most delightful soviet era porcelain figurines available
I didn't even realize it until diving head first into this rabbit hole, but I have had soviet era porcelain figurines my whole life (a bunny and a bull for those curious), so I guess I was always destined to develop a fondness for the form, and eventually dig a little deeper into it.
There is something so incredibly charming and also incredibly interesting about these porcelain pieces! These little guys!
There's a lot of history to dig into that I've barely scratched the surface of AT ALL, but I'm fascinated by how porcelain reflected the common sentiments* of the times, the economic conditions, the artistic movements and ideas of the day, and also the ability (or lack thereof) of people to stay in one place and hold onto something so "useless" and easily broken.
I have very, very few things from any of my ancestors. Figurines like these make me think about the way history and art are passed down to us, forgotten, broken, left behind, sold in thrift stores and online, if they survive at all.
Figurine collections are kind of a barometer of safety and stability, or at least how dedicated to the illusion of it you might be.
They also make me think about how useful "useless" things can be. How even art that is purely decorative can be thought-provoking (by for example valorizing "folks"), or just make you happy (via being very cute! Or expert use of color and form!).
Grannies collect this shit for many good reasons and I'm starting to catch on.
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* Notably the $$$ collectors type ones are the ethnographic figurines, something I NEED to read an academic paper about.
Especially, because Ive noticed some of these figurines depicting "ethnic types" are inaccurate copies of earlier prints, which themselves should be placed under immense scrutiny! This is all extra interesting in the context of the porcelain industry transitioning from imperial rule to the soviet era. The ways of talking about ethnicity changed, (in addition obviously to y'know, everything!) but the products produced largely remained the same. Lots to think about!!!
Jan 31, 2025