What colours did Van Gogh use to paint 'Starry Night'?
Ultramine Blue, Cerulean Blue, Sap Green, Cadmium Yellow Hue,
Lemon yellow, Ivory black, Zinc White. Raw Umber Ultramine Blue,
Cerulean Blue, Sap Green, Cadmium Yellow Hue, Lemon yellow, Ivory
black, Zinc White. Raw Umber.. citron-yellow and Prussian
blue."
What colors did van gogh use?
Van Goug started painting with dark colours; greenish-brown
colors. Until a French painter convinced him to use a more colorful
palette.
Typical colors in Van Gogh's palette included:
yellow ocher, chrome yellow andcadmium yellow, chrome orange,
vermilion, Prussian blue, ultramarine, lead white and zinc white,
emerald green, red lake, red ocher, raw sienna,black.
(Both chrome yellow and cadmium yellow are toxic, so some modern
artists tend to use versions that havehueat the end of the name,
which indicates that it's made from alternative pigments.)
Van Goghpainted very rapidly, with a sense of urgency, using the
paint straight from the tube in thick, graphic brush strokes
(impasto). In his last 70 days, he is said to have averaged one a
day.Influenced by prints from Japan, he painted dark outlines
around objects, filling these in with areas of thick color. He knew
that usingcomplementary colorsmake each seem brighter, using
yellows and oranges with blues and reds with greens. His choice of
colors varied with his moods and occasionally he deliberately
restricted his palette, such as with the sunflowers which are
almost entirely yellows."To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come
even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain
background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and
by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue
background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of
an azure sky."
