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The "Swatch This" Challenge Day 3

1/4/2021

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OPERA PINK

Daniel Smith's  own enticing description of Opera Rose may lure you as effectively as the color itself. "The most vivid of all pinks, has long been requested by DANIEL SMITH customers. A primary magenta with a hint of fluorescent pink granulation producing some of the most brilliant glowing mixes you have ever seen. Try mixing Opera Pink with our New Gamboge for fiery oranges or with an Indanthrone Blue for stunning violets and glowing purples." 
CAUTION!!! This one is a fugitive.
Technical Data:

​Pigment: PR 122 | Series: 1
Lightfastness: IV–Fugitive (You have been warned)
Transparency: Transparent
Staining: 1-Non-Staining
Granulation: Granulating
What is fugitive color?
Some pigments, especially violet reds like rose, carmine, magenta or maroon, hues that rarely occur in inorganic pigments, when exposed to strong sunlight, humidity, temperature, pollution are impermanent. They will lighten, darken or change completely and should be considered temporary.
Modern chemistry has made some remarkable advances within this hue group. My father, (remember, he was a chemist) worked for Dupont and spent part of his early career working to come up with a less transient red dye). 
So devious these spectrum standouts, a feast for the eyes and the soul, yet they should be avoided or at least only used for fun, never in a professional watercolor painting that you intend to sell. 
You may find conducting your own experiment to test this enlightening:
Paint opera pink (or any of the others named above) in a solid swatch  or row of swatches if using several colors, and then a second identical row. Cover one row up with a solid piece of watercolor p:aper or cardboard paperclipped to it. Set the test sample in a window with strong light for a few weeks or months and then take a peek at the row that has been covered up. You may be surprised at what has happened to that beautiful pink that glowed its way into your heart.
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