The "Swatch This" Challenge Day 75

3/21/2021

Technical Data:
Pigment: Genuine Red Fuchsite
Series: 3
Lightfastness: I – Excellent
Transparency: Transparent
Staining: 1-Non-Staining
Granulation: Granulating

RED FUCHSITE GENUINE

Red Fuchsite Genuine, another of Daniel Smith's Primatek Series of pigments, and in case you are wondering, it's pronounced with a long "o" as in books and looks and not a long "u" and twisted up to sound like the flowering plant, fuschia, So "Fooksight" is how it is said and it is named for the German Mineralogist Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs.
There, now we can talk about it without blushing,
Fuchsite is found in the mountains of Brazil and is a treasured gemstone. I was surprised to find that this soft, dusky rose resulted in a sparkly iridescent sheen once it granulated leaving a very different cast than what I expected, but lovely and fitting in this case.

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