Welcome Phthalo Green to your palette

Put Phthalo Green’s intense color strength and brightness to work for you:

Dazzling Turquoise mixtures

Combined with our Silver Point, the Phthalo Green is transformed into a deep gemlike blue green with better opacity yet still cool and bright. For a paler Turquoise, mix the Phthalo Green with our King’s Blue that lightens the value but provides its own rich color and brightness for another gemlike result.

Phthalo Green mixed with our King’s Blue in featured image above

 

Deep mixed greens

Nature’s luxuriant summer greens are easier to mix from a strong, cool Phthalo Green tamed by warm natural earths. Yellow Ochre or Raw Sienna will yield verdant natural greens, medium deep and gently warm in tone. Burnt Sienna mixed with the Phthalo Green results in a deep forest green perfect for depicting warm shadows.

Yellow Ochre mixed with Phthalo Green

 

Burnt Sienna mixed with Phthalo Green

 

Far-off dark greens

Not to be avoided, the Phthalo Green will quickly become softly warmed and muted to suggest deep space in a landscape once modified by our Cedar or Jasper. Let the Cedar warm the extra brightness of Phthalo Green as it lightens the value and changes this modern fierce green into a sunlit soft Emerald. Jasper tames the vibrancy of the Phthalo Green allowing it to read as a distant dark tone, muted and slightly warmed.

Cedar and Jasper each warming and adding a sense of space to the Phthalo Green

 

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13 Comments

  1. Thank you, Thank you! More combinations please.

  2. I appreciate these written postings. I do wish you would have most color mixing videos. They are what often prompts me to buy paints from you. Thank you.

    • Gail Spiegel

      Hello Kate,

      Thank you for your positive feedback. We are working on producing more videos as well as the posts, so more on the way!
      Thank you for your support,
      -Gail

  3. Adele Corrigan

    Love these mixing colors demos.
    The best part of visiting you in NY is watching you mix in front of us on the big desk. Also the bottled water you give us.
    Love Vasari oils.

    • Gail Spiegel

      Hello Adele,

      Thank you for visiting our post on Phthalo Green. Yes, we are attempting to share the showroom demonstrations with all of our customers by creating these paint posts on the blog. Of course, we enjoy squirting out paint in-person too, and value the time you spend with us.

      Thank you for your positive feedback and support, we appreciate it!
      -Gail

  4. Wendy Lacska

    I too appreciate the blogs about mixing colors. The videos are my favorite. Hoping to see more of both! Thank you.

    • Gail Spiegel

      Hello Wendy,

      Thank you for your positive feedback and support. We are continuing to work on the paint posts and videos, so more to come!
      Thanks again,
      -Gail

  5. Thank you, Vasari paints are really wonderful and I love watching or reading about different mixtures. I hope you continue to do more of this!

    • Gail Spiegel

      Hello Rose,
      You are welcome! Thank you for your positive feedback and support.
      Best regards,
      -Gail

  6. Loved your video on greens. Makes me want to purchase and play.

    • Gail Spiegel

      Hello Marsha,
      Thank you for commenting on one of my favorite colors! I wanted to share my enthusiasm for this often overlooked but powerful pigment.
      Best regards,
      -Gail

  7. Thank you for this great information, I love using my Vasari oils and want to buy more😊

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