True Colours: Pigments & Traps 🎨
From ultramarine to magenta, find out what binders, light, and illusions are hiding from you!
What this quiz asks
- 1In light (screens), what are the three primary colours used?
- 2For four-colour printing, the inks mainly used are…
- 3Which blue pigment came from ground lapis lazuli, prized in the Renaissance?
- 4The green colour of leaves mainly comes from…
- 5Prussian blue was discovered…
- 6Traditional 'ivory black' was made from…
- 7What's the main binder in classic watercolour?
- 8In subtractive mixing, mixing cyan and yellow gives…
- 9Why do we say magenta has no wavelength of its own?
- 10What's it called when two colours match under one light source but differ under another?
