Pigment Names and the Names That Name Them

When we were children experiencing our first set of watercolors or more likely, crayons, we learned to call colors by their name, red, green, blue, orange purple or yellow. With a larger box of crayons came a bigger vocabulary, robin’s egg blue, pine green, burnt orange, etc. This expanding notion of color made us feel the endless possibilities of creativity.

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