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Learn about mixing colors accurately, the Munsell Color System, creating a natural value scale using blacks and whites and creating a Zom palette using four colors: while, yellow ochre, cadmium red and ivory black.—Hartford Courant, 27 May 2022 My Princeton painting classes took me to museums, to Philip Guston’s cadmium red, ivory black, and titanium white cigar-smoking Klansmen and John Currin’s skinny, huge breasted naked white women the color of supermarket peach flesh.—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 June 2018
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