Oil & Acrylic Green Paints!

[@RobertJonesWightpaint]

I love viridian and Terre Verte - because I live in the UK, and their subtlety suits our rather grey atmosphere: pthalo green is a mad, wild colour that needs a lot of dulling down in landscape. I knew a Scottish artist - Scotland can be very misty - who refused to believe that the pthalo colours had any use at all - with the choice of colours, a lot depends (if you're a landscape artist) on where you live.

[@leedavis-art]

Haha, yeah the phthalos are *extremely* potent in their tint strength! I mostly paint surreally myself and don't mind the saturation. Still, I toss in a little cad. red light usually! But when painting more representationally I move to cobalt blue and chromium oxide green. I like their mid-values and how they grey up nicely.

[@tesskater]

Great information with these colour videos

[@leedavis-art]

Thanks! Glad these have been helpful. :)

[@pjjmsn]

It takes me forever to finish a tube of phthalo green, on the other hand I can blow through a tube of tera verde in one session.

[@leedavis-art]

Those phthalos are powerful aren’t they! Stark contrast to the Tera verde! 🤣

[@pjjmsn]

Great video Lee! Is pthalo green yellow shade the same pigment as pthalo emerald, or are they 2 different ones?

[@leedavis-art]

Thanks! Depends on the manufacturer, they like getting creative with their color names. :) But if you look on the tube or on their website you’ll want to look for pigment green 36 (PG36) for the yellow shade and pigment green 7 (PG7) for the blue shade.

[@pjjmsn]

@@leedavis-artThanks Lee! I had bought a small tube of Rembrandt "phthalo geen yellow" PG36, a couple of years ago but never ended up using any of it because I just thought it was kind of like a sap green. I often mix normal phthalo green with transparent oxicide red which works well for my landscapes, so I just stuck with that. I also have Winton emerald green hue which I thought was interesting and used some of it in seascapes, which I am guessing now is PG36, and not the deadly stuff :). But thanks to your video I can see now that PG 36 is a very interesting color which I plan to explore.

[@joanasaad915]

Very helpful. Greens can be very tricky for me as a beginner.