A full palette with only
3 primary color transparent pigments.

10-25-04 Testimonial

msg= Hi Don, Send me a Zip of the RCW please. Yours is the first really useful colour wheel that I have found as it is good for photography as well as for paint. I'd like the zip so that it can be printed to A3 size for use as a teaching aid in a photography course in the UK.

Thanks in advance
Tom Merryweather

4/27/2012
Subject: RE: Join my network on LinkedIn, I joined you.
Hi Don,
Do you remember the girl from N.Y.who you made that spectacular large color wheel for? It still graces the Metropolpitan Institute of Design where I have been teaching and speaking about you and your input and guidance into my Advanced Color course that has been running for 5 years years now. You are still my favorite artist. Someday I hope to own one of your beautiful pieces. We DO paint the color wheel in that course... of course the REAL color wheel and I tell my students you told me THAT is the ONLY color wheel we should use!!! If you google the Metropolitan Institute of Design, METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF DESIGN, in Syosset, N.Y., and click on "Faculty" (on the left side of the screen), you will see me, a devoted fan of Don Jusko!!! http://www.met-design.com/faculty.html

I have been spreading your words for 5 years, proudly displaying your large color wheel and students have taken down your website information. Thank you for all of you help and guidance 5 years ago when I was putting the course together! Sincerely, Deborah M. Batterson :)

Hooray! My 30 grams of Sennelier's Quinacridone Red, #679, for $55 w/ship arrived. IT IS THE PERFECT TRANSPARENT MAGENTA, BAR NONE. It's Pigment Index Color Number is PR122. This is the dry pigment magenta you need for frescos and all other media. I hate it when I run out.

The perfect triad is:
Transparent Indian Yellow (warm yellow-brown) PY150
Or Transparent Indian Yellow (warm yellow-orange-) PY153
Or (for water colors) Transparent Tartrazine PY100 Clear (warm yellow-orange) by Spectra Colors.
Transparent Quinacridone Magenta, PR122
Transparent Phthalocyanine Blue (cyan) PB15.3.
Keep this list as close to your heart as I do, it took testing over $2000 worth of pigments to find these gems. At the same time I got a great fresco complete palette. I made a DVD of painting 2 frescos using the transparent primary palette. It's $35 on my order page.

First is transparent Indian yellow Org/s then transparent Indian yellow Br/s

Transparent Triad Colors in 6 round color chips, except for the first ball, opaque ultramarine blue PB29.
Indian yellow Org/s ball PY153. Cyan PB15.3 and Indian yellow PY153 make the green color chip sample.
Magenta and cyan made the purple ball, cyan and magenta made the blue ball, Indian yellow and magenta made the red ball.

Oppositions, opaque red PR88 or cad red PR108, transparent cyan PB15.3. Using each other's color to make a neutral dark shadow color.

Oppositions Transparent Magenta PR122, Transparent Green PG35, using each other's color to make a neutral dark shadow color.

The black ball was made with this transparent triad.

Testing for black with PR122, PB15.3 and PY153 on a 14x18 panel,
making a very dark buon fresco without black pigment.

Painting an apple with my transparent 3 primary color sample card. PR122, PB15.3 and PY153 in water colors, laying down yellow first, than magenta and cyan. This was painted in 2000, the paper is the palette.

I have my own w/c Indian yellow now for pigment and ink, it's a clear transparent yellow.
IT'S BETTER, CLEANER AND BRIGHTER THAN ANYTHING ON THE MARKET TODAY IMHO. 5-20-10

Order here. RCW Transparent Primary Palette with Tartrazine yellow Clear. THIS IS WHAT TRANSPARENT INDIAN YELLOW SHOULD LOOK AND BEHAVE LIKE, 5-20-10

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This cool 3 color primary transparent triad in oils made perfect blues, reds and greens.
Bocour Cobalt Violet, color not available anymore, it was cooler than PR122 but it bled. I think it was the first true magenta.
Grumbacher Thalo Blue
Old Holland Indian Yellow O/s

I have been working with a chemical company called Spectra Colors Corp. in my home State, N.J., 4-2-6, to provide my clear transparent yellow color. PY100, Spectracid Tartrazine 170 / Acid Yellow 23 / Azo / C.A.S#: 1934.21.0 / H:1 F:0 R:0 P:D / APR 25,2006 / Lot # T14976 / Scc Order # : 63305, is my choice. This is it, a clear Indian Yellow for plotters and w/c artists. It is very permanent, never changing at all after 2 months in the hot Lahaina Sun, the ball point writing is gone. Ethylene Glycol added to the pigment made it waterproof ink when dry. To use this pigment as a water-color add gum arabic and a little honey. The amount of water added to the pigment to print a cadmium yellow light is 1:9. In this image there is 1 cup of the 1:9 mixture, the pigment and dilution I'm printing with is 1:29.

Printing with full strength (1:1 with water) the ink printed a cadmium yellow medium hue color. 1:29 is what the plotter needs to bring it down to cad yellow light hue. All colors with yellow included in them are rich.

The yellow ink for printers/plotters is opaque today, and I found it prints weakly as a tint. Yes, the plotter spray printing industry can use an upgrade.. Their standard Cyan is too magenta (I think), so could our National Color Index, it's lacking because it's based on calling red, yellow and blue the primary colors.

Imagine saying red (which is made of yellow and magenta), is the primary color and giving magenta a code like PR:122. That's Pigment Red #122 to the artist trade. We all know that's wrong. Or should know it's wrong.

Yes, the 3 transparent colors, Yellow, Cyan, Magenta color wheel is accurate,
not the red, yellow, blue colour wheel.
Compare them here.

My color wheel adds to that, giving the ability to mix all opposite secondary colors to a neutral black hue or shade colors.

This is a big problem today, because all of our State's School Standards are commanded to teaching the Red, Yellow and Blue as primary colors. Very sad.

11-20-8, The day before yesterday I ran out of the color MediaStreet calls G-7 cyan in my plotter. I have two bottles on hand so it was no problem. Instead of just refilling my homemade bulk ink system I decided now was the time to work on my Spectra cyan. Spectra had sent me cyan in two forms, dry pigment and liquid.
This is how I tested and compared the different products. An eye dropper will give equal amounts per drop if the viscosity is the same. For each color ink I made a chip color of 1 ink to 0 water = 1:0, the full ink color. And 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, 1:5, 1:6 all the way up to 1:24.
Spectramine Blue FBLK LIQ, Direct Blue 199 is the only color matching the Grumbacher Thalo blue oil paint that I love and promote. Spectra Colors Corp. is a pigment manufacturer. They make that transparent color in dry pigment and water ink concentrate.

As far as the different ink colors for different plotters is concerned, this is what I found. MediaStreet G-6 cyan for the 4 and 6 color plotters reaches the same value by diluting the Specta "cyan" like this, 1 Spectra (cyan) : 2 water : 1/4 ethylene glycol. I use the addition of ethylene glycol as a slower drying lubricant for my plotter's heads. TIP: For cleaning purposes, ammonia dissolves dried ink, it breaks it up which is good for cleaning printing heads. Alcohol is not good for cleaning heads.

This final color was still too dark for print my opinion. The cyan it prints on my color wheel looks too blue. Remember, cyan changes to blue as it gets darker.
For my plotter I settled on 2:5:1/2, two spectra liquid, five water and 1/2 ethylene glycol.
4-29-9, Media Street abruptly stopped selling inks. :(

For a more in-depth discussion on printing inks for plotters,
Go here, http://www.realcolorwheel.com/rcwplotter.htm

Real Color Wheel

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