Brown Pink? any chance that is Potter’s Pink?

Remember that Sargent often laid his watercolors on quite thickly. Often given an opaque finish. He would also wash color over a thick (1mm) white bead laid on the paper.

So much in his watercolors can only be appreciated in person, it just doesn’t show up in reproduction.

“The pigment called Stil, or Stil de grain, is a similar preparation, and a very fugitive yellow, the darker kind of which is called brown-pink.”

More at
https://www.naturalpigments.com/artist-materials/pink-was-yellow-paint/

I was just watching a new video from Jerry’s Artarama that featured Sennelier. The first color he laid out was Brown Pink. Sennelier has reproduced this in a modern convenience mix of PY 150, PG 7, and PBr23. It is indeed related to Stil de Grain, and showed up in the video as a glowing greenish gold. They mentioned it was a favorite of Sargent’s. Beautiful, I might have to get a tube, or I may just try to mix it myself.

The original color was not lightfast, and even though this one is not rated, it is made from lightfast pigments.

The word “pink” originally referred to a yellowish shade of a flower. Over the centuries it’s English usage shifted to our modrn pale red. “Blue” has also shifted from a more cyan shade to the modern blue…which was originally called indigo from the dye (blue jeans blue). Hence some of the confusion with Newton’s ROYGBIV, blue and indigo have shifted in common usage…

Traditionally the Japanese considered greens and blues to be one color-group. While the Russians separate light-blue and dark-blue as two separate colors. And in English there’s pink and red …though both cyan and blue are “blue”.

I just finished creating a John Singer Sargent palette as my watercolor class has used two JSS watercolor paintings for practice. I thought it would be a good idea to try to use the same colors he did. I did a temporary mix of emerald since mine hadn’t arrive yet. I used: 8:viridian, 2:cad yellow light, 1:titanium white. I think if I did it again I would cut the yellow to one and increase the viridian to 9.

I used Quin Pink but am going to switch it out for Opera, which is closer to Eosin. I’ll also be switching out the Greenish Yellow (Holbein) for Brown Pink (Sennelier) I have the space so will be adding Transparent Red Oxide. There will be 26. I found three different pigment lists for JSS and so combined them, eliminating duplicates and similars.

Here is my list. They are Daniel Smith unless otherwise noted.

Eosin (Opera) or Quinacridone Pink (DS)

Rose Madder, (Rose Madder Hue)

Alizarin Carmine, (Perm Alizarin Crimson)

Scarlet Vermillion, (Organic Vermillion)

Deep Vermillion,  (Cadmium Deep Red, W&N)

Cadmium Orange

Cadmium Yellow Pale or light, (Cad Yellow pale W&N or Cad Yellow light DS)

Chrome Yellow, (Schmincke)

Gamboge, (New Gamboge DS discontinued or Quin Gold DS discontinued)

Brown Pink,(Sennelier) or Greenish Yellow (Holbein) or Rich Green Gold (DS)

Viridian

Emerald green (Holbein, DaVinci, Turner Professional) see my mix above

Chrome green (Chromium Oxide)

Cobalt Blue,

Ultramarine Blue,

Prussian Blue

Cerulean Blue

Cobalt Violet

Yellow Ochre

Burnt Sienna,

Umber, Raw and Burnt

Vandyke Brown,

Lamp Black, or Ivory Black

Opaque white (gouache)