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What a fascinating read. You’ve led me to need to learn more about the connection between color and colonization.

As a one time artist I know the cost of pigments. I am willing to pay a premium for certain color - watercolor and inks in particular.

Thank you for opening this door for me.

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Thank you Patris, I hope I will be able to convey the full scope of this entanglement in the coming weeks.....

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I’ll be waiting to rad it thank you!

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Thank you so much for this excellent introduction. In Portugal (where I live) we can buy colour pigments by weight ~ including the ultramarine blue powder, which looks just like the one on your photo. (we mix the pigments with lime to make wall paint. Much cheaper and better than the chemical shit they sell for a lot of money in tins)

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We did several years of Workaway volunteering and lime paint and geodesic domes sound like the kind of place we could have spend a few happy months....but we never made it to Portugal.

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Interesting. I had to look up Zyklon B, as I'd never heard the gas named before. To answer the question posed, I think my skin is probably no-colour or pale beige, letting the colour of muscle and blood show through. When I was a little girl (having never seen anyone who wasn't white!) I went crazy trying to colour people right. Pink was too strong, white was too white. My mom told me to use pale orange but of course that wasn't right either. Even now, for me as an artist, skin tones are the hardest things to match.

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Looking forward to more about color, Bertus - took a theory class in design school from a fine artist, it was fascinating...

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Great, thank you Troy, I hope I can garnish that knowledge with a few extra shades.....

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