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Hooker Green

11/19/2015

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Being an art major, you become familiar with the various names of color (hue). So, when I began hosting paint nights with friends, who are not artistically trained, it caught me a little off guard when they had questions or humorous comments about a color's name. One that had become an inside joke is Hooker Green.  I thought I'd get some background on yhe color to share. Here it is: Hooker Green is a dark green color created by mixing Prussian blue and Gamboge. It was named after the botanical illustrator, William Hooker (1779-1832), who first created a special pigment for leaves. (information is from wikipedia). Here is more info on the artist:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hooker_(botanist)
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    Nadia Roldan

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