Each custom-mixed hue and tint was assigned a name, like cool cyan magenta nine or warm cobalt blue four.
It turns out, not surprisingly, given Gideon's taste and fine art background, that the Francis Bacon colors, the tobacco browns and hues of ocher, mixed with the washed-out institutional shadings of asylum blue and green, are precisely right.
As she speaks and dabs the brush in a tub of hand-mixed hue she appraises the urban pathways she has created in the robes of the woman in the piece.
Ms. Hash mixed those hues into looping fabric around the neck or subtly shaded them down the body.
Even after eliminating less-than-timeless color schemes, many of their colors have to be hand mixed, the hues having fallen out of use in the time since televisions were black and white.
She emphasizes her love of hyperreal faces, vivid hues, and a mixed-media approach to art-making in which no material is excluded, from acrylics and charcoal, to crayon, and even whiskey.
That is the conclusion of two astronomers from Johns Hopkins University, who mixed the varied hues in visible light of 200,000 galaxies on their palettes and saw green.
The Marni show today was a bolt out of the blue -- delphinium and azure, mixed with beach hues and beatnik satchels adorned with trinkets.
Mr. Andolsek, who no longer draws because of failing eyesight, worked on graph paper using rulers, compasses and black ink to generate linear patterns, which he then colored in with store-bought inks that he mixed to achieve nonstandard hues.
