Derivan Matisse Fluid Acrylic: Aqua Green Light 135ml

• Chemical Description: Blend Titanium dioxide & chlorinated Copper phthalocyanine

• Pigment Number: PW6 PG7

• Lightfastness Rating: ASTM I

• Pigment Opacity: Opaque

• Paint Opacity: Opaque

• Series 2

Aqua Green Light would be regarded by most artists as a very new shade of color more akin to 21st century fashion than art from the ancient world. They couldn’t be more wrong about that. While it is not a precise match, Aqua Green Light is similar to the color malachite which is a copper green color that forms naturally and has been mined and used for as much as 5,000 years. A mine in Israel in the Timna valley is believed by some people to be one of the mines of King Soloman has been producing malachite for 3,000 years and is still operating, although jewelry is now a more important use for it than artists paints. Malachite is a bit darker than Aqua Green Light, and not quite so bright and clean a color and to get the actual shade add a small amount of Phthalo Green and a small touch of black to the mixture. This beautiful green was used in ancient Egyptian paintings very purposefully since the color was intended to represent joy. The ancient Egyptian name for it was wahdj and the hieroglyphic representation for this color was 3 grains of sand underneath the symbol for green which in today’s terms looks a bit like a neck tie.