From: Katharine Thayer (kthayer@pacifier.com)
Date: 09/18/03-02:42:42 AM Z
Judy Seigel wrote:
>
> Sorry I didn't get back on this sooner, but reality intervened, as it so
> likes to do. I return to the point, however, because the longer the world
> believes that Indanthrene is indigo, the harder the notion will be to
> dislodge from the collective brain and the more it will defy correction
> (as per the so-called Gum Pigment Ratio test which, after 3/4 of a
> century, WILL NOT DIE!).
>
> I assume Katharine got the notion that Indanthrene is indigo by surmise
> from, or even assertion of, a recent watercolor pigment book,
I've read only this far but have to stop and reply right now. I have
never confused indanthrone (PB60) (which by the way is spelled with an o
not an e) with indigo (PB66). They are not the same; I've never ever
suggested that they're the same, and I don't get my pigment information
from any watercolor books but from a great variety of sources. Indigo,
PB66, the fugitive pigment that's been called indigo since sometime in
the 1800s, is still used in two watercolor paints, as I stated.
I don't believe I'm even going to read the rest of this, it would just
upset me for no good reason. Let's just leave it at this, that the whole
premise of this post is wrong.
Katharine Thayer
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