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Chapter 4

White Light, Artificial pigments and Semi-Permanent Hair Colour

Let’s look at what our art teachers told us about colour; using paints on
white paper.

In basic art class for five-year olds, we were given a tin containing a
palette of water-soluble dry bricks of colour, it was explained that by
using a small bristle brush dipping it in water and brushing it onto the
colour brick of your choice, you could transfer the colour onto the paper
and manipulate it into any shape with the brush (Fig 23.)

It was explained that by mixing varying degrees of two colours it was
possible to achieve another colour i.e., red and white = pink.
However, this was fine on white paper although the white paint hardly
showed at all. But when they gave us blue paper the same paints and
mixture did not work the same, the colours became darker and the blue
paint hardly showed at all (Fig 24.)

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