The Story of Blue
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- čas přidán 24. 05. 2016
- This short film tells the story and history of blue as a color and an artist's pigment, from Lapis Lazuli to modern day Phthalo Blue.
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Jason I am a 68 year old man who is semi-retired after 41 years of law practice and am in the process of returning to one of my loves- art,especially oils. I must admit it has been several decades since I picked up a brush though I have turned out some rather good art using nothing but the standard Paint device that is standard on computers. So I have spent a lot of time relearning the art on line. I must say that of all the programs I have seen yours is by far the best. THANK YOU.
Hi Bill and thank you SO much for the nice compliments! I'm glad you are finding my videos useful. I think it's awesome that you have found your way back to art! Enjoy and best of luck!! If there's anything specific you'd like to see a video on, let me know.
I learned more from you than I did in art history 20 some years ago.please do more like this
Wow that's a great compliment, thank you!!! I'm so glad you enjoyed my video. :)
Jason, this is a most beautiful "Story of Blue." Blue is a living color. Thank you for producing this and sharing it with us.
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Jason, this video was not only informative but very professional in it's creation. Well done!
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shadowstarr7 which are warm blue and cool blue
Jason, This was absolutely wonderful! The narration, background music to accompany all the beautiful artwork, and the history you presented of the color "blue" make this video one to definitely view. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent with us.
Thank you for the wonderful comment Leslie!
I am amazed. I flippn love this video. The talent behind this guy...huge. I'm glad he is sharing his journey with us. It's rare that I find quality videos that draw me in...this is one to share with friends.
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Made me cry.
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Beautifully narrated, thank you Jason
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Awesome
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you talking about ' blues it's my best color l loved ' thanks.
& you mentioned' our civilization ( pheros)
i'am egyption '
i saw every episode'in your amazing chanel ' good luck
& god blues ' you
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This is beautiful work. I think the subject is fascinating. Your voice is also complimentary to documentary and the choice of music is delightful.
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Very, very, very interesting, and a wonderful presentation. Thank you for the pleasure it gave me.
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This was absolutely fascinating, i could watch a Wacott Documentary about every color after viewing this. Truly outstanding!
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So I did the math, it would cost about $300 to buy enough dry Lapis Lazuli pigment to make a single 48mL tube. Ouch! Meanwhile a 4 oz. jar of ultramarine blue dry pigment from Gamblin is $8 and will create between 1-2 48 mL tubes!
Making your own oil paint is easy once you get the hang of the procedure and you get artist/premium grade because you choose what goes in it! :) There are several videos on You Tube, and naturalpigments.com have some amazing and rare choices to choose from. Most people dont bother filling tubes and just mix very small "single use" amounts. Sorry for the long winded comment your channel is an inspiration to us all!
Sounds about right! LOL I've also heard that some modern Lapis pigments are sometimes not made carefully, and so the color is poor becuase it contains contaminates. Attila Gazo of Master Pigments has a video where he actually goes through the entire original process to extract it they would have used in the middle ages. You can see why it was so expensive! czcams.com/video/JBzEAt_ynvc/video.html He does sell his wares if you're interested.
Thank you Jason
Thanks for watching! :)
Jason, I stumbled across your videos a few weeks ago while I was looking up a cadmium video, and at first I was like...whos this dude?! But I quickly realized your channel is badass, and you seem like a good down to earth guy. I can see your love and dedication to the amazing skill of painting! Im glad I found someone who enjoys painting as much as I do, and likes to "geek out" about the paint and pigments used, etc...I have always had a natural passion and talent for painting anything:houses and pictures on canvas, lol! Anyways I love your videos, keep up the great work, happy painting!
Wow, thanks for that awesome comment! I am so honored that you like my channel so much. :) Thanks for watching! Yes, we art materials "geeks" are around if you look for us. LOL
Excellent documentary, great job!
As usual, Jason, your presentations are wonderful, impressive, and very informative. Thanks again and again for your wonderful contributions to the work of artists!
Thanks so much for the kind words Brian! I'm glad you enjoyed this :)
Great video. Thank you so much. Your passion for art is truly motivating!
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ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR!!! you Sir are a wealth of information....thank you for this vid.
I can't believe I did not watch this video back when you uploaded it. This video is amazing!!! The quality is so professional. Hope you make some more of these documentries in the future.
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So beautifully made. Your writing is very poetic as well. Thanks Jason
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I regularly watch your studio videos and thoroughly enjoy them. This was so informative and really well presented. Like watching a BBC documentary. Thank you for posting it Jason.
Awesome, thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it :)
Just re watched. Still great job Jason. Hats off. Cheers
Thanks so much! I am pleased that you enjoyed this again! :)
this video is wonderful!! thank you so much for bringing this into the world
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! This one is actually the pride and joy of my channel :) Thanks for watching!
Loved it. Thx
I'm so glad you enjoyed this! Thanks for watching. :)
Gosh, how talented you are. Absolutely love the way you created the video. Thanks for making my day:)!
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Walcott Fine Art The combination of your voice, outstanding music and impressive ultramarines makes a beautiful hues of my mood:) Frankly, I’m nasty:) Most of stuff I usually watch just doesn’t work for me.
Thanks a lot for your great job and professionalism!
Will never take blue pigments for granted anymore. Lapis lazuli stones/crystals are really beautiful.
Thanks for watching! :) Yes, it's amazing that blue color that Lapis has.
Really interesting and so well put together, thank you!
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Love your channel! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
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Wow - this is an awesome video! Blues are my favorite colors.
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Thank you!!!! Amazing.
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Fantastic video Jason its 10 out of 10 from me . I will put it on my face book time line God Bless .
Congratulations! This was really high quality. You just got a new subscriber. I hope you can make more videos of this kind.
Thanks for the nice compliments! I may try to do another video like this in the future. I am considering a video about Red, as that color has an interesting history as well. Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Excellent narration and wonderful video!
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Thank you for a wonderful, informative video which is so very interesting!
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This video is so good!! Thank you
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This video had inspired me a lot, thanks very much!!!
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What a lovely interpretation, thanks
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Very interesting. Love your channel.
Thanks so much! I'm gald you enjoyed it. :)
Blue, I have new eyes for this color. A bluetiful video❣️👏🏻💙😊
One of the things I love about art is the history behind the pigments. Good choice of music btw.
Me too! Thanks for the nice comment...Glad you enjoyed it. :)
This was so interesting! Thank you. I look forward to learning more about other colors!
Thank you so much Barbara! I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
Great video ! thanks you
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Amazing video! I loved it!
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This was very interesting. Good job!
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Just find your channel, I'm impressed!
This video is amazing well produced and a pleasure to watch . Congrats
Greetings from Brazil
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I love this video so much omg. Blue is my fave cloud
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I love this 💙
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omg.. well... this generation and future generation needs to know this! just by knowing it, I feel more appreciation to colors.. treat them with respect
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that was awesome.....very well put together.
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Bravo! Well done and very informative. You could make your own documentaries!
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good God
this one topic
explains most of western art history
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Fabulous!!!
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Your videos are all amazing. Instructive, interesting and helpful. Thank you for taking the time to make them. 🤔😀🙏
Good stuff man
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amazing! i learned so many things, thank you, extremely interesting video!
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great video!!
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i remember hearing from other blue videos
that blue was really like, a light black.
that the night sky was black, so in day time its like a light, black
Interesting idea! You can use black as a kind of "blue" in very limited palletes like the Zorn palette.
Excellent in information and a joy for the eyes.It is in the same high as aBBC documentary.😍
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This is a great video, thank you :>
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Fantastic video, Jason! I enjoyed it tremendously and learned so much. Thank you for your clear and informative videos. Do you teach workshops too?
Thanks so much for watching and for the wonderful comment! I'm glad you enjoyed my video. I have taught a workshop or two in the past locally, but for right now I have nothing ongoing. If I ever do I will be sure to post an announcement! :)
Thank you for this video, I liked , gracias gracias ,regards from México.
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What a great video I'm so glad I found your CZcams channel. Terry
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"This colour of heaven calls us home to the mystery within ourselves." Beautifully said. 11:55
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@@walcottfineart5088 - Great video. Really. Thank you. I don't remember if you covered it, but the Hindu gods are blue, like Krishna. And the Virgin Mary is always depicted in blue. Homer never used the word blue in the Iliad and Odyssey, referring to the sea "wine red". Happy Easter!
@@TorMax9 Very true! I didn't mention in the narration about the blue Hindu gods, but I did show some of their temples in one of the shots. The Greeks as well did not have a word for "blue" in their language. :)
Loved it. Thanks. I think now you could (and should) include the wonderful new breakthrough of YInMn blue, which I find ineffably sublime.
Thanks so much for the nice comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I actually heard YInMn blue is very hard to get and terribly expensive. I've heard some good things about it, but I don't think it is readily available yet as a pigment. I hear it is quite similar to Cobalt Blue, but I have never seen it in person.
I love this video: I watch it periodically as it was a movie....and actually it is!
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Walcott Fine Art it is a compliment but it is also true! 😉
Good video! Well made, better than the history channel haha! Very interesting and informative.
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I loooooove Lapis
Thanks for watching!
Jason thanks you for your wonderful videos, they’ve been incredibly helpful and informative. Would it be possible for you to post a list of the paintings that are shown during the closing segment? I’m embarking on a period of master copies, as a training method, and there were several I’d like to include in my studies. Thanks again for sharing your ‘knowledge and passion.
I will try and do that when I find the time! If there was a specific one you needed to know right away let me know. Thanks for watching and for the nice comment :)
What a wonderful commentary...the blue stone is so beautiful. Have you ever tried Ultramarine blue dark? Its so nice...enjoyed seeing the papyrus, I've gone to Egypt many times before the take down of Mahbarik.
Also, love the Gamblin oils, beautiful hues, the radients are wonderful for plein air.
Three thumbs up!
Thanks! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. :)
amazing video! Why don't you sell it to a channel? A lot of channels show small documentaries!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed this video. Other people have suggested the same thing too, so you never know! :)
My favorite color is actually red, but this made me affectionate and misty for blue, lol! Very well done, and enjoyable!
What a wonderful comment! Thank you! To be honest my favorite color is violet, but blue as a pigment has such an interesting history that I really wanted to make this. Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Fantastic!
I seem to have missed commenting this before? Anyway, very appreciated and very nice. I loved it.
(While they are of little consequence for artists, the fugitive and blackish colors of Indigo (a dye, so has to be laked) and Azurite have also played significant historical roles).
With all due respect. Azurite is not the same as "Ultramarine Ash". Azurite is a blue copper carbonate mineral. It was available in Europe, not at all like Lapis Lazuli that had to come from Afghanistan. Unless it's protected by an oil film, Azurite becomes green and black (converts into Malachite), and even in an oil film it will eventually become green.
Ultramarine is a sulphuric sodium aluminium silicate, which is perfectly stable excepts for acids.
Ultramarine Ash blue is the same as Ultramarine. It's the last and least pure extraction of natural Ultramarine from the Lapis Lazuli stones. This was still usable for light blue tones.
Azurite was commonly used in underpainting the dark blue shades, under a thin layer of Ultramarine. The cost of painting dark, deep blue shades would otherwise had gone through the roof, due to the cost of natural Ultramarine.
Indigo is not the only blue dye for jeans anymore. I wish it was, because of environmental & health reasons.
There is a crazy chaos when it comes to Indigo hue dyes these days. It's not just the decline of Indigo, but also discontinuation of other important dark blue dyes. It has created problems for manufacturers of ink and Tse Tse fly traps, as well as making trouble for fashion photographers who try to get the blue shades come out right in the ads.
Yes, you are absolutely correct! Thank you for pointing out my error. I was getting the fact that Azurite was used as a cheaper underlayer for Lapis mixed up with the ash thing! I knew it wasn't considered permanent in terms of being a good pigment. I hadn't realized that about the blue dyes...very interesting! It makes you wonder why they would discontinue something that was in demand. You've probably heard they discovered a new blue pigment a few years ago called YinMin blue. It isn't widely available yet, but maybe in the future!
you did such a great job providing sources for your songs in the background,
but can you tell me which one is playing @7:28?
please thanks
Sure that's "Holiday Brass Ensemble" by Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions.
I loved your presentation. Now I'm wondering if my ultramarine is synthetic or not (rublev).
Thanks for watching and for the nice comment! :) Yes, your Rublev Ultramarine is most assuredly the synthetic version. You would know if it wasn't because it would be labeled as "Lazurite (Lapis Lazuli)" and would have cost a fortune. LOL
dude! do this for more colours.
Thanks for watching! I may do more videos like this in the future. You might also enjoy my "Weird and Obsolete Pigments" video...the second half in particular.
Great. I wonder what his favourite colour is?
Thanks for watching! :)
blue belongs to every one
Bravo! This video is informative and majestic, Jason--well done, sir.
One artist I did not see covered in The Story of Blue however, is Murillo. I am thinking of his Immaculate Conception-themed paintings and particularly, the small canvas in the Dulwich College collection (issues of authenticity aside), which I sight as a reference, should you wish to study an interactive view of it. I'd like to ask your opinion of the blue in this and Murillo's other paintings, of the same theme. In your opinion, what blue do you think he used?
Again, thank you for a stunning video.
Thanks for the wonderful comment! I'm so glad you enjoyed this. I went and had a look at some of the Murillo paintings and time period he lived in. I strongly suspect that he was using a pigment called "Azurite" which is copper carbonate. It was the most common blue used when an artist couldn't get genuine Lapis Lazuli, and was at its height during the 1500s and 1600s. It was a much less vibrant blue compared to Lapis though and has a tendency to turn dark or greenish. Another thing I didn't cover was that there were different "grades" of Lapis Lazuli you could get because of the way the pigment was extracted. The highest most expensive grade was the one that was so beautiful. The lowest grades were sort of grayish looking so he may have used that as well. They were much less expensive.
Thank you Jason for responding so quickly. It is deeply appreciated. Your input is very valuable to me. I trust your opinion as it is based on such a high level of expertise. I will consider you at length the information you have so graciously given. Thank you.
Thanks for such a nice comment! :)
Great video. I was looking for the name of the second song played. I heard it before a long time ago, but never forgotten that melody. Please share the title. I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed this. The second song is called "Gymnopedie No. 1". :)
Thank you.
Blue is my favorite color.
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The piano piece (2nd piece in), what is this? I checked all the mentioned pieces, but couldn't find it. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!! :) The title of that piece is "Gymnopedie No1". The artist is Satie. It's part of the free CZcams music library, but is one of the tracks that does not require attribution.
Walcott Fine Art awesome thanks. Btw some top level history channel video this was
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I hope they put this on NETFLIX
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by the sumerians thousands of years before the egyptians thanks 4 sharing :)
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Could have added indigo too
whats that piano song @8:57?
That is called "Newborn". It's one of the free music files that comes with iMovie. :)
@@walcottfineart5088 hey thanks for a timely and concise reply.
both of those things are hard to come-by these days thank you
6:42 Sam o Nella intensifies
I found a blue statue of a female on Mars in Curiosity sol 1065. Then I took a nap.
You missed the Mayans.
I really enjoyed this video. Most would pass over this saying, "Are you serious? The history of BLUE?! I'd rather read the entire wikipedia for rope!" But it's an amazingly deep and very well narrated mini-documentary. I'd love to see more of these for different colors.
Thanks so much for the nice compliments! I have considered doing a "Red" video sometime in the future. :)
This gets better with every viewing. Just a small note, Afghanistan is not in the Middle East. Great content otherwise!
Thanks so much for the nice comment! I'm glad you enjoyed this :) I guess Afganistan would be considered Asia? It's kind of in between.
@4:48: *The Chinese actually got their blue from Afghanistan just like everybody else* during the classical and medieval world after the Egyptians forgot how to make it!
I had read during my research that the Chinese blue on the porcelain was a similar compound to the Egyptian Blue...but that wouldn't have been Lapis Lazuli. But it is certainly possible that they traded with Afghanistan. :) Thanks for watching!
Do not forget! The human flesh has blue in itself! Look closely and you'll see it. The blue veins running through your face as well as green and yellow (fat).
Very true! Thanks for watching. :)
So let's say you're in ancient times. The blue of the sky and of water is not a distinct color but the color of space and light, like gray or clear is. But what about people with blue eyes? Or blue lizards, birds, flowers, etc. Blue DOES exist in nature.
I didn't say blue didn't exist, I just said it was rare. Rare enough that it was considered a sacred color when in pigment form.