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Complementary mixing pairs: burnt sienna and ultramarine blue

This is Williams­burg Ital­ian burnt sienna and Old Hol­land ultra­ma­rine blue. I’ve pre­vi­ously pro­vided a sam­ple using raw sienna and ultra­ma­rine blue; I’ve noted before that some pig­ments have more than one mix­ing com­ple­ment. While the raw sienna/ultramarine combo is slightly green­ish, the burnt sienna/ultramarine is more neu­tral. It also pro­duces darker darks.

burnt sienna and ultramarine blue

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