I should answer your email post while I'm at it:)
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> Late Night Notes!
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> Hello Don,
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> I am planning on using the Mussini Gamboge.  The Cobalt Yellow was the substitute color recommended on the link I sent you yesterday.  I understand about it not being transparent. Is the Mussini Gamboge the geniune?
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If it's genuine it is transparent, I don't use it much, it's just too half-way. Indian Yellow is stronger.
These are 3 color painting using gamboge.
Here is that colors web sites.
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/paintingknife.htm
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/jacaranda5.htm
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/oilpalette5gamboge.htm
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/rcwgamboge.htm
Here is the whole palette so you can see color relations.
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/myoilpalettemap.htm





>It sounds like a wonderful color.  I am trying to learn more about the colors...there is so much information on your page that I have never been introduced to.
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Thanks for your reply Don...also for your patience.  I am ready to pull my hair out, I can't believe how many colors don't seem to be available any longer.  I could use some help please...I want to set up a new palette using the colors listed on your wheel.

Don: I'm making an addition here on 1-6-6)
I like Handprints site, I was just there and marval at our simularities.
This Quote I just read there. It's about the removel of the most important transparent yellows we have as artists. That's my opinion, not theirs.
 
http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/pigmt1d.html#benzimidazolone
"Metal Complex. A small group of about a dozen azo pigments of marginal industrial significance, and (it seems) with an uncertain future in the world of artists' pigments (production of PG10 and PO65 has been recently discontinued). All combine a symmetrical pair of carbon (organic) compounds with a metal atom (usually nickel or copper). Included in this group are the azomethine metal complexes. Colors range from green (PG8) to green gold (PG10, PY117, PY129), yellow (PY150, PY153, PY177, PY179), orange (PO59, PO65), and red (PR257, PR271). Most shades are rather dull or dark in masstone, but brighten significantly in tints."

Don: Nickel complex, making PG10F (discontinued) Indian Yellow Green side and PY153 a warm light brown its mass tone. Indian Yellow is the primary transparent compound. That makes Indian Yellow the most important primary yellow color pigment. Not that cadmium opaque yellow and translucient Benzimidazolone Yellow are not handy. Buy your supply while they are still availble, 1-6-5  
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In the Mussini company...the only Opaque Green I could find is the Cobalt Green Opaque, it doesn't mention if it is Light or not.

I didn't see a Thalo Green in this brand available according to my supplier's list.
Is the Burnt Umber and Sienna called Natural?

There is nothing listed as Yellow Raw Ochre...there is a Light Ochre on the Mussini list???  I also couldn't find Permanent Green Lt. or Cad. Yellow Lemon in the Mussini paints.

In the Grumbacher line I found a Thalo Violet, is that the same as Thalo Purple?
Is this the cool purple?  They still make the Diox. Purple.  Is the Cad. Yellow colors all barium colors?  The Earth Green is Earth Green Hue...is that what I want...is there another brand?

In Old Holland...what is the difference in Gamboge and Cobalt (Aureolin) Yellow Lake?
Don: Gamboge natural is not permanent and not a pure yellow. Aureolin is translucent.

In the Rembrant I found Quinacridone Rose, not Rembrant Rose and I found Scarlet...none of them mention Scarlet Crimson.  I found a Thalo Blue-Green, but the color sample is not even close to turquoise.  They have several turquoises that look turquoise.  They only have one vermillion and it doesn't say which vermillion it is...doesn't say Chinese.  There is no longer a Chromium Oxide at all?

Windsor Newton no longer has a Cad. Red Light?  

I would appreciate your help in this...I need to get my paint order in as soon as possible.  

Pamela