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Suzy
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 8:38 am: |  |
Yippie... But seriously Robert, I have a gorgeous full sheet painting hanging in my foyer that is filled with Opera. It has direct sunlight that comes in from my all-glass front door and hits it every afternnon for at least three hours a day. I swear it is just as bright and flouresent as it was the day I painted it. I just now held up a new piece I did with Quin Magenta and it is not nearly as bright or electric and its brand new.
One of the challenges in working wiht Opera is not to let the sheer intensity of the paint overpower the painting. It needs to be used with skill.
But it is good to know that the worse that will happen, if ever is that it will fade to magenta.
Note about Opera: In reproduction work unless you add flouresent ink to the traditional four color process the opera will not be that hot! It will look more like, alas, Quin.magenta. I replace the Yellow and Red with flouresent inks and use regular cyan and black in all my print work. The flouresent reds in process colors are not as lightfast as regular ink but not horrible either. I have never had any complaints.
Aloha, Suzy |
Robert
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 7:09 am: | |
Amen Sister Victoria--I shall no longer walk in Burnt Umber but shall turn my spirit forever toward the magenta! |
victoria
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 3:25 pm: | |
Robert has seen the Magenta! Hallelujah!
Victoria |
Robert
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 3:46 pm: | |
I've been a real opponent of the use of opera in work that is meant to weather the years. Something just occured to me. Opera is made of quinacridone magenta (PV122) which is lightfast plus rhodamine b dye which is fugitive. Because the dye is fugitive I have rejected opera and use instead quinaridone magenta. When the rhodamine B dye fades in the Opera you are still left with the lightfast quinacridone magenta! Opera when it fades turns into quinacridone magenta which is what I use now.
So it seems that if I used opera the worst that could happen is that it would turn into magenta, which is what I would use in place of it anyway! I ammend my absolute rejection of Opera. I see the light...er, magenta...Suzy. |
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