Complementary mixing pairs: pyrol ruby and viridian

Here’s another great pair of com­ple­ments: pyrol ruby and virid­ian. Both of these are from Robert Doak. Pyrol ruby is a fairly trans­par­ent mod­ern organic lake pig­ment with a color sim­i­lar to alizarin crim­son. It is quite per­ma­nent. Virid­ian is semi-transparent and slightly on the bluer side of green.

The ruby is a much stronger tin­ter than virid­ian. They mix to a very dark neu­tral that can sub­sti­tute for black.

I strongly encour­age any painter to do these kinds of exper­i­ments with all com­bi­na­tions of the paints they typ­i­cally keep on their palette.