My mother was an art historian (she's alive, just went through a career change) and she always asks me about this channel now. I keep showing her different videos about historical pigments, haha.
How to make egyptian blue: Heating together quartz sand, a copper compound, calcium carbonate, and a small amount of an alkali (ash from salt-tolerant, halophyte plants or natron) at temperatures ranging between 800 and 1,000 °C for several hours. Source: Wikipedia
Thanks. It took me like five seconds to find this information, so it was a bit annoying that we're claiming the information was lost. My immediate thought was "Any scientist could probably analyze that and figure out what it is."
"1:19 "It's only mined out of a random cave in Afghanistan." _Really??_ Those poor South Americans. What a difficult trek it must have been from Chile to Afghanistan. it seriously takes less than 4 seconds to google it... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_lazuli#Major_sources
@@_alxa9832 it's just blue water color with a fancy name You can make it by adding a bit more turquoise into the blue that was the closest to it That's a waste of money
Fun fact. Blue LEDs were also a huge technological issue to solve, without which you would not have white LEDS, or LED based displays. One Japanese guy whose name escapes me pretty much dedicated his entire career to developing them.
Fun fact: blue is the last color that was “discovered” by humans. For centuries, no word existed to describe the color blue; the sky was describe as green. Blue was just another shade of green and it is believed that humans may have been color blind thousands of years ago. It’s believed they could only see white, red & black and eventually yellow and then green. To this day, there are languages that don’t have a word dedicated for the color blue and they use a modified version of whatever word they use to describe green. You can thank the Egyptians for technically inventing the color blue. You can see the lack of awareness for the color blue in ancient writings; Homer’s The Odyssey is one that’s always used as an example as he described the ocean being wine colored with no allusion to it being referred that for any reason other than that’s what the Greeks described the ocean as.
Since it's all a spectrum (literally), you could carve out any section of RGB space and call it a "new" color if you want. There's no reason to say that the ten or so "main" colors we have (red orange yellow green blue purple pink brown black white gray) are the "right" way to divide it up
Humans weren't actually "colorblind" to blue at the time that the sky was being described as green or the sea being described as red. It's that a unique name for the color was missing from our vocabulary. The same way there are languages that don't have a name for "brown" and so "brown" is more easily recognized as a dark orange. English speakers have a difficult time seeing brown as orange because we have a distinct name to separate the two colors. Crazy how much of an impact language has on perception, really.
Japan it was reversed. Back then they called every blue and green thing blue. Cause they took parts of the color spectrum and gave those title a specific name and what we would call green was put into the same category of we would call blue. The reversed happened around the world.
The Oh Hellos actually have a song that uses this as a metaphor for a change in perspective! It’s called Lapis Lazuli and it has lines like “but if there’s one thing I know it’s that the sky looked white and the water like wine when I first met you” in reference to people not having words for blue. It’s pretty neat, would recommend listening and analyzing.
Woah :0 I'm from Indonesia, and a lot of the elders call the color blue green. Not so much now, but sometimes my parents or grandparents call the color blue green because of influence from their parents. Come to think of it, since I'm from the Sundanese tribe, I just realized that there is a Sundanese word for "green" (= "héjo") but there's no word for blue. Not sure if it's the same for every other Indonesian tribes, but still. Thanks for informing me this!
Of course just like every materials. They are everywhere around the globe but in different concentration and amounts so I guess afghanistan have the largest or the easiest to mine or she just forgot about other countries
The phenomenon when you repeat a word so many times that it begins to lose its meaning and not sound like a real word is definitely a documented subject, by the way. It isn't just you, Rae. :)
@@4Rgames thank you for your reply I was just pointing out how similar the colors look and how difficult it is to tell the difference by eye. I'll remember to keep a magnet handy, if I ever need one.
I doubt either tin of crushed up pigment (cobalt or yinmn) would be magnetic lol. At least not to that extent. She was referring to there being a handy small magnet on the bottom of the tub to keep it in the metal case/ keep from losing it. You can see a glimpse of it whenever she zooms in on the pigment tub inside of the metal tin.
I think its so interesting how blue's are made.. I love the stories and the histories behind the products. I love how people make the paint their selfs.. its beauthiful.. Yhe shade of blue is amazing. Its officially my new favorite color. Rae is officially my new art-history teacher. Love you Queen.
In my opinion, phthalo blue looks like the best blue color if you're on a budget because depending on how much you use, it can be dark blue, bright blue, and turquoise all in one!!!
This is the SECOND paragraph down on the Wikipedia page about lapis lazuli: Mines in northeast Afghanistan continue to be a major source of lapis lazuli. Important amounts are also produced from mines west of Lake Baikal in Russia, and in the Andes mountains in Chile which is the source that the Inca used to carve artifacts and jewelry. Smaller quantities are mined in Pakistan, Italy, Mongolia, the United States, and Canada.
in afghanistan itself, there is a lot of lapis on the market, majority of them are antique jewelry. im afghan and my grandma always gifts me lapis. its not as rare as other valuable stones, but it is the most beautiful in my opinion.
Joke aside, she meant as a pigment. Many blues we see in nature are not actually blue pigment. It's a mixture of the nano shape of the material and combination of other pigments which tricks you into thinking it's blue.
The cyanide in Prussian blue is bound to an iron that's the ferro. Prussian blue is Iron ferrocyanide. I accidentally made it chemistry class my freshman year of college. (I was supposed to add a thiocyanide (which is cyanide bound to a sulfur) reagent and if it precipitated reddish brown, it was a positive iron test. I accidentally added the ferrocyanide reagent. I was very lucky I didn't use up all of my original solution and could start over.
@Hannah You have no idea if you and the commenter see blue the same way. Perspective is subjective. It may look Prussian Blue to them and Ultramarine to you. Don't just invalidate them because you disagree.
When I found the crayon “Bluetiful” I walked around my classroom complimenting my classmates by saying “You look Bluetiful” I just found it funny- Bluetiful and Beautiful-
when I was in 3rd grade one of my friends saw the Spanish version if grey on a crayon (gris) and walked around the classroom pretending it was just some guy named gris
Romania has "albastru de Voroneț" or Voroneț blue. Not sure how this fits into the history lesson but it dates back to about 1400-ish. Was hoping it would get mentioned.
Looks like people’s best guess to what Egyptian blue was is calcium copper silicate, or cuprorivaite/caeruleum. The biggest issue is it’s kinda toxic, especially when it’s in a powder form
I never really thought about the environmental cost of making synthetic pigments! I think a video listing the most enviro friendly and costly pigments would be interesting. Cant wait for this blue to be more redily available!
This is why whenever I see people commenting on videos like this with things like, "meanwhile, digital artists be like..." I'm just over here going, "you don't know what you're missing," because there's so much of a range of color that is visible that our digital recording AND display devices struggle to accurately capture. Dry ultramarine pigment is basically impossible to accurately represent digitally, because it is so much brighter than what we're used to seeing in that range of the color spectrum, so we don't bother replicating it for digital displays.
"First Blue Pigment In Over 200 years" Yo, I'm a *million* percent sure that they didn't have phthalocyanine pigments in the 1800s. YInMn is the first *inorganic* blue pigment since synthetic ultramarine, or maybe one of the permutations of cobalt blue, but there have definitely been synthetic organic blue pigments invented in the last probably even as recent as fifty years or so.
@Heloise O'Byrne its funny because literally the very first pigment she compared it to was phthalo blue, short for phthalocyanine blue lol. Channels like these just don't care about research.
I have an astigmatism, I have to wear glasses to drive at night, but I can differentiate colors amazingly well. I’m really good at replicating tones and values with digital Art. The first thing I thought when I saw Yim mn blue last year was that they created another cobalt blue… This blue has Uv blocking power though! Personally I would choose Yim man!
Why I am discovering art materials that I've never mentioned that exists now???? Thanks, Rae. 9:00 - heck, I still have my dandilion crayon stored somewhere. I didn't know that it was gone in other countries.
A client of mine has a gold ring set with a large and extremely rare perfectly polished rectangular Lapis Lazuli that is naturally laced with gold, surrounded by two dozen flawless diamonds. He used to be an executive with a Canada-based gold mining concern that mined gold all over the world. I forget how much he acquired it for, but I remember it being an eye-opening figure. Most beautiful ring I've ever seen to this day, and I'm sixty.
U need to get a good camera and set it to a fixed whitebalance for somewhat realistic color rendition. Get a good light too to show off precise color information. Tungsten light is actually perfect for that. Set the WB somewhere between 2700 and 3200 Kelvin. Block out all sunlight and turn off any led or fluorescent light. Best camera on a budget would probably be the panasonic s5.
Well, I learned a lot from my ancestors because they used to use a lot of natural dye for the sundried cloth made out of natural cotton. Hundreds of years ago, my ancestor been collecting purple dye out of the seashells called murex. (I know how it looked like but I don't know how they collected the color out of it, well i guess drying and crushing the shell-not sure lol). Another natural purple-bluish dye they collected are those from logwood, and also red dye from the insect cochineal (not sure about the spelling). Because of these knowledge, I won the local girlscout painting -using organic colors from the forest (yeaaaars ago..just reminiscing..) I missed my grandma, she just passed due to corona last week. 🥺😊🤍 But, I'm trying my best to smile because I knew she wanted me to be okay and she wanted me to be strong. Take care of yourselves folks. Covid is real.
May your grandmother live on in the memories you have of her, and may the things she taught you come to your mind whenever you are near children, so that the wisdom of old can be passed down and endure many generations. If I remember correctly, the seashell you speak of was crushed to a powder then boiled in an alkaline solution, probably seawater with ash or clay dust or something similarly on hand. It was said to take a number of days to develop into the brilliant color the emperors, kings and royal families so desired as a symbol of their social status. I read that before the secrets of maKing silk were smuggled out of China, the finest silk fabrics in the trade nations were brought toTurkey by the ancient silk road, because even rarer than the violet dye alone was how it took to fine silk. The purple sheen was so told to shine like nothing else available for that time, having an almost magical or ethereal quality. I imagine there is nothing quite like it in our modern world, simply because the old techniques were so much more a matter of craft mastery. So complex, sparing no known phenomena of our natural world, and taking no shortcut or omission that was not solely ordered by the very heavens above. I mean that only by circumstance of the fluctuations that come with the yearly seasons turning, meaning the longer cycles of heat and cold, rain and sun, swarms or blights, etc. These factors are the same that determine whether the wine will age sweet or dry, refined through the determination and dedication of the human spirit over eons and generations, by the sheer will of each artisan to make it work with what is available. This discipline is seeming to be almost lost on our modern world, and even though the machines can produce something likened to almost anything imagineable, no machine will ever rival the hand crafted artifacts of our own kind. Cheers!
@@sourceawry4035 thank you! :) I am happy that some of us are still fascinated by the traditional arts and ancient methods. Actually i searched about fabrics because my grandma loved visiting vintage shops. She solely been looking for oversized dresses and curtains. She recycle those fabric into a new dress or something else.. she said, the rarer the better the older the more possible it is handmade. I found one video that i find fascinating it's the ancient fabric that cannot reproduce now because we don't have the same cotton plants like we used to. They call it the muslim fabric. Luckily, they are trying to recreate that one. th-cam.com/video/xojkYY_gcIo/w-d-xo.html 💕
Omg! Look into the history of Royal Purple and Carmine pigments! The “crushing purple out of shells” sounds like royal purple, and “getting red from small insects” sounds like Carmine (Carmine is still used a lot in food in makeup dyes to this day!) I’d bet there’s a connection to these historical pigments!
I found it completely mind blowing when I learned that most ancient languages don't contain a word for the color blue. Like, what?! Basically, if they didn't have a method of creating a blue pigment, they didn't have a word for the color🤯
@@kristines9855 So no language had a word for the color blue until “modern” times and to this day many languages still use a modification of the word they used to describe green because, to ancient humans, blue was just another shade of green. For example, the sky was blue and the Greeks described the ocean as wine colored. That being said, kyaneos was used to describe dark green and other colors in Ancient Greek, it wasn’t specifically used for the color blue.
Everyone else: talking about the paint Me: momentarily in pain when she shows using that awful cheap synthetic kids brush when talking about watercolors lasting
@@booksquirm92 With colors with a lot of pigment you don’t usually need a lot of paint to get a bright color. Considering how expensive it is, it’s also wasting the paint.
This is so interesting! I find that compared to the watercolors you bought, the YinMn blue looks a lot less complex, with one single hue, where the others will sort of float between cooler blues and teals in lower opacity. But I'm seeing it through a camera, and I wonder if that has something to do with the paint itself.
Another factor about the artificial blue, esp ultramarine. It has to be made at high temperatures and extremely high pressure. Like, can explode levels of pressure.
Just to clarify, the recipe for Egyptian blue wasn't intentionally destroyed by religious zealots. It fell out of use centuries before because Egypt had been absorbed by the Roman Empire which preferred reds, yellows, and oranges. And when Rome fell to the Persians it was finally completely lost.
This is absolutely incredible!! It’s amazing that they created an entirely new pigment, especially be accident! This is gonna be in history books two hundred years from now
Mom: ugh, you better not be watching TH-cam again!You have an art history lesson to do. Me: Wdym? This is my art history lesson. Mom: .. Edit: I don’t even remember making this comment- but anyways, tysm for the likes :)
I feel a bit sad for Phthalho blue (PB15) now getting a mention in the history segment. Indigo too xD Can we give these wonderful colours some love too? Also, I would love it if you tried blendding the crayons so we can see some thinned down colours than just the rough textured look o.o
I really wanna go to Oregon university. Not only because that’s my childhood birth state but also because I love science. I really really wanna go there when I’m older.
Even butterflies and birds with vibrant blues don’t usually have an actual blue pigment. Instead they have nano structures that absorb certain wavelengths of light and achieve a blue look that way 🤩
I live in pakistan so afghanistan is close to us I frequently use the that blue color from the cave The real one not the synthetic one And I do have to use the equipment
Just a heads up, I’m not sure if this is a new advancement from three years ago when Rae made this video but scientists found how to make Egyptian blue! “Egyptian blue, also known as calcium copper silicate (CaCuSi4O10 or CaOCuO(SiO2)4 (calcium copper tetrasilicate)) or cuprorivaite,[1] is a pigment that was used in ancient Egypt for thousands of years. It is considered to be the first synthetic pigment.[2] It was known to the Romans by the name caeruleum. After the Roman era, Egyptian blue fell from use and, thereafter, the manner of its creation was forgotten. In modern times, scientists have been able to analyze its chemistry and reconstruct how to make it.”
Schmincke has made this pigment into oil paint, ftr. They're selling it as a limited edition color under their Mussini Oil line and retails (on Jacksons) for $34.25. I'm not sure which pigment is in the formula, but if it's the actual article, it seems buying a 15ml tube of the oil paint version is more economical than the $45 watercolor pan, IMO.
Laughs in digital art 😶✋
Omg congrats getting *✨pinned✨* gurl
SAME LMFAO
Also congratulations on the pin
Lol
Lol 🤣🤣
Laughs in broke 😖😣
Cobalt poisoning? Art is essentially: if it can kill ya, use it
Van Gogh approves👍🏽
ah so wise
The words of a mastermind.
Me with a cobalt blue MARKER: he he he
@@almira9162 i think her name is actually Rae--
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Here for my weekly art history lesson 🤓
Hello
Here before this probably blows up
My mother was an art historian (she's alive, just went through a career change) and she always asks me about this channel now. I keep showing her different videos about historical pigments, haha.
Me too, and this lesson is pretty fun too
Same
How to make egyptian blue: Heating together quartz sand, a copper compound, calcium carbonate, and a small amount of an alkali (ash from salt-tolerant, halophyte plants or natron) at temperatures ranging between 800 and 1,000 °C for several hours.
Source: Wikipedia
Lots of misinformation in this video. Like showing azurite and claiming it is cobalt….
Thanks. It took me like five seconds to find this information, so it was a bit annoying that we're claiming the information was lost. My immediate thought was "Any scientist could probably analyze that and figure out what it is."
She said “exactly.” So maybe that recipe only approximates authentic ancient Egyptian blue.
"1:19
"It's only mined out of a random cave in Afghanistan."
_Really??_
Those poor South Americans. What a difficult trek it must have been from Chile to Afghanistan.
it seriously takes less than 4 seconds to google it...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_lazuli#Major_sources
@@PedanticAntics And apparently it's random too.
Can we talk about how my brain just mElTeD watching the first stroke of this PERFECT BLUE. Literally, it looks like its worth the cost
Same mine did too
Yeah!! Me as well.
It's not worth this much for a tiny 1 use cube
@@_alxa9832 it's just blue water color with a fancy name
You can make it by adding a bit more turquoise into the blue that was the closest to it
That's a waste of money
@@_alxa9832 then don't talk to me rich kid
"watercolor lasts a really really rEALLY long time" - stares at my 2 palettes I destroyed in 4 months -
How?
@@tasnimtabassum785 I do a LOT of art
@@sdrawkcabmiay oh it'd be dead. I'll have to buy those in bulk
@@kliyaa1125 ....not if I use it all
I can not relate more than anything instead of this comment
Phalo blue looks the best
*P h a l o b l u e* xD
@@donutxd. heh
@@brynbryn2764 UwU
Isn’t it Pthalo?
Pthalo**************
Fun fact. Blue LEDs were also a huge technological issue to solve, without which you would not have white LEDS, or LED based displays.
One Japanese guy whose name escapes me pretty much dedicated his entire career to developing them.
are you thinking of isamu akasaki? (i think thats what his name is)
edit: he passed away in april 2021, RIP
@@jwlsiee probably.
So did they ever find a blue led
@@inkheart01 find?
I remember that! It was a fascinating story, have to go back and rewatch it
I was just thinking:
"Wait- new blue? I've used that hundreds of times"
I'm a digital artist lmaoo
the fact that they were messing around and they made a blue pigment and nobody has in 200 year
Bullshit! I made one! I call it "Blue Me".
*paints house with new pigment*
People 200 years from now: "whyyyyy did people like blue houses so much"
Well, it’s been like that before for different architect styles so why wouldn’t it be like that for an EVERLASTING paint
Blue is aesthetic
@@kylee9802 Yeah I did, but why does that matter?
hahaha 666 likes lol
I’m surprise no one made a “Blue” by Eiffel 65 reference
Just realized that bob Ross never got to see yinmin blue 😭
Edit: yo how did this turn into an argument about god
dont worry, he had seen every single color. (in heaven)
Sad
It’s just ultra marine blue.
@@chrome1018 Assuming that he believed in the correct god out of the thousands of options
@@ahalfsesameseedbun7472 Every major religion treats other gods as fakes so good luck trying to guess who's right
Fun fact: blue is the last color that was “discovered” by humans. For centuries, no word existed to describe the color blue; the sky was describe as green. Blue was just another shade of green and it is believed that humans may have been color blind thousands of years ago. It’s believed they could only see white, red & black and eventually yellow and then green. To this day, there are languages that don’t have a word dedicated for the color blue and they use a modified version of whatever word they use to describe green. You can thank the Egyptians for technically inventing the color blue. You can see the lack of awareness for the color blue in ancient writings; Homer’s The Odyssey is one that’s always used as an example as he described the ocean being wine colored with no allusion to it being referred that for any reason other than that’s what the Greeks described the ocean as.
Since it's all a spectrum (literally), you could carve out any section of RGB space and call it a "new" color if you want. There's no reason to say that the ten or so "main" colors we have (red orange yellow green blue purple pink brown black white gray) are the "right" way to divide it up
Humans weren't actually "colorblind" to blue at the time that the sky was being described as green or the sea being described as red. It's that a unique name for the color was missing from our vocabulary. The same way there are languages that don't have a name for "brown" and so "brown" is more easily recognized as a dark orange. English speakers have a difficult time seeing brown as orange because we have a distinct name to separate the two colors. Crazy how much of an impact language has on perception, really.
Japan it was reversed. Back then they called every blue and green thing blue. Cause they took parts of the color spectrum and gave those title a specific name and what we would call green was put into the same category of we would call blue. The reversed happened around the world.
The Oh Hellos actually have a song that uses this as a metaphor for a change in perspective! It’s called Lapis Lazuli and it has lines like “but if there’s one thing I know it’s that the sky looked white and the water like wine when I first met you” in reference to people not having words for blue. It’s pretty neat, would recommend listening and analyzing.
Woah :0 I'm from Indonesia, and a lot of the elders call the color blue green. Not so much now, but sometimes my parents or grandparents call the color blue green because of influence from their parents. Come to think of it, since I'm from the Sundanese tribe, I just realized that there is a Sundanese word for "green" (= "héjo") but there's no word for blue. Not sure if it's the same for every other Indonesian tribes, but still. Thanks for informing me this!
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Rae comparing yinmin to cobalt: oh my god they're identical
Me: she got scammed from Etsy lol
Haha yes
My first thought as soon as she said Etsy. Need to verify that it's the correct chemical.
I also thought that😅
@@mcscara4559 VENTI HI
@@CrispyGFX same , I was like yo she might have got scammed 😭😭
Lapis Lazuli isn't only mined in Afghanistan. It can be found in Russia, Chile, the US, Pakistan, Italy, Angola, Argentina, Mongolia, and Canada.
Of course just like every materials. They are everywhere around the globe but in different concentration and amounts so I guess afghanistan have the largest or the easiest to mine or she just forgot about other countries
@@thh1226 yes Afghanistan is where it was discovered and mined for thousands of thousands years they had a monopoly over it
i guess it's the only place where is allowed to be used for that?... cuz it wouldn't make sense to forget other countries specially chile
@thh1226 there third world so its the cheepest to get there lil kids to mine it
"Yeet the paint into the sun"
When she said this I lost it! All I can imagine is someone trying to throw paint at the sun 😂
🤣🤣🤣
if you put on captions its says eat the paint into 😆
PAINT THE SUN BLUE👨🎨👩🎨🎨 🔵☀️
Lmao
I tried it. My face is ruined..
The phenomenon when you repeat a word so many times that it begins to lose its meaning and not sound like a real word is definitely a documented subject, by the way. It isn't just you, Rae. :)
Omg I want to learn more about this study!!!
It happens to me a lot. It turns into a weird muddy human noise after a while. It's kinda fun to do though, not gonna lie.
And it's called 'semantic satiation'
Tartlette!
Tartlette!?
Tartlette!!?
Word's lost all Meaning!
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I cant help but wonder how she knows this is an authentic blue and not just a dollarstore blue someone sold to her for $45
1. Cobalt isn't magnetic
2. She said there IS a difference
3. If there's false advertising like that the seller would be taken down
@@4Rgames thank you for your reply I was just pointing out how similar the colors look and how difficult it is to tell the difference by eye. I'll remember to keep a magnet handy, if I ever need one.
@@Tsunad360 You said that she might have been scammed by the seller, was simply pointing out that it's unlikely
@@4Rgames Uh . . . Cobalt IS magnetic, though?
I doubt either tin of crushed up pigment (cobalt or yinmn) would be magnetic lol. At least not to that extent. She was referring to there being a handy small magnet on the bottom of the tub to keep it in the metal case/ keep from losing it. You can see a glimpse of it whenever she zooms in on the pigment tub inside of the metal tin.
So sad that Bob Ross can’t be here for this one.
:( :
True he would have beenmaking alot of masterpieces with the new pigment
yeah :(
Let's start an F chain for Bob Ross
I'll be first: F
@@regulusblackdefender F :(
I think its so interesting how blue's are made.. I love the stories and the histories behind the products. I love how people make the paint their selfs.. its beauthiful.. Yhe shade of blue is amazing. Its officially my new favorite color. Rae is officially my new art-history teacher. Love you Queen.
artists and scientists: remember that green paint that can kill you?? yeah we have a blue version.
now we need a white one and we can have a murderous MLM flag
Have a black one and name it plague black
@@ichor2127 lead white
Lol
*Holds out MLM flag with murderous intent*
In my opinion, phthalo blue looks like the best blue color if you're on a budget because depending on how much you use, it can be dark blue, bright blue, and turquoise all in one!!!
Isn’t turquoise a mixture of green and blue? Wouldn’t it just be light blue?
It’s pretty much the closest to a pure cyan, so it’s extremely versatile. (Cyan is one of the true primaries)
Rae : "Blue is a rare pigment"
Me: *cries in all the empty blue paint bottles in my room*
Pigment different from colour Z
Does etsy have some sort of way to acctually confirm that youre getting the right blue? i mean wouldnt be an easy thing to fake?
My exact thoughts, it could be fake 😬
Yeah I don’t think it’s real
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Lol
This is the SECOND paragraph down on the Wikipedia page about lapis lazuli:
Mines in northeast Afghanistan continue to be a major source of lapis lazuli. Important amounts are also produced from mines west of Lake Baikal in Russia, and in the Andes mountains in Chile which is the source that the Inca used to carve artifacts and jewelry. Smaller quantities are mined in Pakistan, Italy, Mongolia, the United States, and Canada.
Also Minecraft lol
@@Purplesquigglystripe cmon man we don’t gotta bring mc into this
@@AFF_NYC Also Minecraft lol
@@AFF_NYC Also minecraft lol
@@AFF_NYC Also minecraft lol
In conclusion: minecraft is set in Afghanistan
Yeah I guess so
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New headcannon
I’m from Afghanistan!
So are the creepers radical jihadists?
“Yo listen up here’s a story about a little guy that lived in a blue world”
“And all day and all night, and every thing he sees is blue”
@@AlienMadeFromSoda blue his house with a blue little window and a blue corvette and everything is blue for him
And his self and everybody around cause he ain't got nobody to listen...
@@n4m_co I’m blue da ba dee da ba dy da ba dee da ba dy da ba dee da ba dy
@@littlekaiju265 poop is blue tooooooo
Rae: Lapis Lazuli is only mined out of a random cave in Afghanistan and has a limited supply
Me: Wouldnt you say
🤣🤣
in afghanistan itself, there is a lot of lapis on the market, majority of them are antique jewelry. im afghan and my grandma always gifts me lapis. its not as rare as other valuable stones, but it is the most beautiful in my opinion.
lol
Lmao, there’s also Chilean lapislazuli.
Wouldn’t I say what?
“It’s a watercolor so I’m barely gonna make a dent”
*makes a hole*
“Blue is hard to find in nature”
The sky: am i a joke to you?
Blue jays: *vibin*
blue flowers: *excuse me?*
haha loll
Well, let's get crushing those blue jays, then.
Joke aside, she meant as a pigment. Many blues we see in nature are not actually blue pigment. It's a mixture of the nano shape of the material and combination of other pigments which tricks you into thinking it's blue.
Blue jays are not actually blue, they are actually brown but the way their feather reflects light makes it appear blue to our eyes😅
Brb gonna harvest the SKY
"im barely gonna make a dent since it's watercolor" uses literally almost half the pan 😭
Relative to the same amount of Acrylic or Oil Paints you get a lotlotlot out of watercolor
"omg it looks almost identical to cobalt blue"
Bombshell: you paid $45 for a tiny about of cobalt blue 😂
Yup.
Ikr she got scammed 💀
Honestly, she does not seem very bright. Complaining about something in limited supply costing alot.
@@smsmsmsmsmsm as she mentioned in the start of the video, it has exceptional UV properties which is extremely important when talking about paint.
If you can't buy it from a legit source you can assume everything on etsy is a scam lol
8:14 "oh it's so pretty- *dies from cyanide present in prussian blue*"
The cyanide in Prussian blue is completely stable and isn’t considered toxic.
The cyanide in Prussian blue is bound to an iron that's the ferro. Prussian blue is Iron ferrocyanide. I accidentally made it chemistry class my freshman year of college. (I was supposed to add a thiocyanide (which is cyanide bound to a sulfur) reagent and if it precipitated reddish brown, it was a positive iron test. I accidentally added the ferrocyanide reagent. I was very lucky I didn't use up all of my original solution and could start over.
I just watched a nile red Video about Prussian blue and how stable the cyanide is 😻
Edit: auto correct xx
That "bluetiful" just looks like prussian blue to me tbh
Same
Its because your phone only can see a triangle of the colors we see so we might not even see it
@Hannah You have no idea if you and the commenter see blue the same way. Perspective is subjective. It may look Prussian Blue to them and Ultramarine to you. Don't just invalidate them because you disagree.
Rae: omg new blue
*immediately draws Britney spears*
Britney Blue
I feel like if someone handed you this color without mentioning that it was a new "rare" blue used in paint, you wouldn't notice a big difference
I’m having flashbacks of my old 4th teacher putting on “I’m blue la da dee la da da” during class
This was posted 5 hrs ago... HOW DID U COMMENT SIX HOURS AGO?!
... witch craft ...
@@emmetempleton5629 idk man maybe time is just a concept created by the human brain and the clock in our brain breaks sometimes
Growing up, Dandelion was one of, if not my favorite crayon colors :(
When I found the crayon “Bluetiful” I walked around my classroom complimenting my classmates by saying “You look Bluetiful”
I just found it funny-
Bluetiful and Beautiful-
when I was in 3rd grade one of my friends saw the Spanish version if grey on a crayon (gris) and walked around the classroom pretending it was just some guy named gris
@@oliviasparkleplays3903 gris is french tho-
This is just too funny 😭 What is goin on?
@@Vinegre_enleve_le_vin89 its im French and Spanish i think. I like the color gris!
@@coffee_wolfie2341 ohh :)
Romania has "albastru de Voroneț" or Voroneț blue. Not sure how this fits into the history lesson but it dates back to about 1400-ish. Was hoping it would get mentioned.
And Byzantine blue from before that, which scientists also don’t fully understand.
the bluest blue sounds like a stuart semple colour ;D
*Color.
I always thought I hated art history but Rae succesfully made me intrested in it.
honestly, sane
Rae: new color!!!
Digital artists: First time??💃
🤣🤣
Lol😂
Looks like people’s best guess to what Egyptian blue was is calcium copper silicate, or cuprorivaite/caeruleum. The biggest issue is it’s kinda toxic, especially when it’s in a powder form
I never really thought about the environmental cost of making synthetic pigments! I think a video listing the most enviro friendly and costly pigments would be interesting.
Cant wait for this blue to be more redily available!
I like how the cameras just like, "nah I dont like this. Let's make it look purple... change my mind, I'll make it turquoise"
This is why whenever I see people commenting on videos like this with things like, "meanwhile, digital artists be like..." I'm just over here going, "you don't know what you're missing," because there's so much of a range of color that is visible that our digital recording AND display devices struggle to accurately capture. Dry ultramarine pigment is basically impossible to accurately represent digitally, because it is so much brighter than what we're used to seeing in that range of the color spectrum, so we don't bother replicating it for digital displays.
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'I don't think I'll even be able to dent it'
the very next scene has a whole crater in the paint.
"First Blue Pigment In Over 200 years"
Yo, I'm a *million* percent sure that they didn't have phthalocyanine pigments in the 1800s.
YInMn is the first *inorganic* blue pigment since synthetic ultramarine, or maybe one of the permutations of cobalt blue, but there have definitely been synthetic organic blue pigments invented in the last probably even as recent as fifty years or so.
@Heloise O'Byrne its funny because literally the very first pigment she compared it to was phthalo blue, short for phthalocyanine blue lol. Channels like these just don't care about research.
I came here to look for this comment, phthalo blue is my favourite pigment and I immediately knew something was up
@@thorjelly "nobody cares about the truth when the lie is more entertaining"
The whole entire Japanese people and the Southeastern indigo growers....
this answered so many questions i had while watching this.
Me after reading the thumbnail: I- had no idea paint/pigment existed back then-
ahhhh😂😂
I never thought about paint tbh
Sameeeeeee
🤣🤣🤣
😂 how did you think the hieroglyphs were colored?
The title of this should be First *NEW* Blue Pigment In Over 200 Years
Am I the only one who feels an old connection w Rae??? Aaa
As if you know her from a very long time!!
No me 2
I think she seems very friendly and approachable without being intimatedly extroverted. That's why we feel connected.
I have an astigmatism, I have to wear glasses to drive at night, but I can differentiate colors amazingly well. I’m really good at replicating tones and values with digital Art. The first thing I thought when I saw Yim mn blue last year was that they created another cobalt blue…
This blue has Uv blocking power though! Personally I would choose Yim man!
Meanwhile me and my brain when seeing that cute li'l pigment: looks delicious.
Why I am discovering art materials that I've never mentioned that exists now????
Thanks, Rae.
9:00 - heck, I still have my dandilion crayon stored somewhere. I didn't know that it was gone in other countries.
ok
They don’t make the dandelion crayon anymore, regardless where you live. They replaced it with “bluetiful” two or three years ago.
Traditional artists: Look, we discovered a new color!
Digital artists: what? I’ve been using that color for years.
*sigh*
BAHAHAHAHA SO TRUE
Lol and I mean I want to be an artist but not digital thank you very much LOL
Lol 🤣🤣
looolll
A client of mine has a gold ring set with a large and extremely rare perfectly polished rectangular Lapis Lazuli that is naturally laced with gold, surrounded by two dozen flawless diamonds. He used to be an executive with a Canada-based gold mining concern that mined gold all over the world. I forget how much he acquired it for, but I remember it being an eye-opening figure. Most beautiful ring I've ever seen to this day, and I'm sixty.
Rae be like : New color just dropped.
I LOVE how she gives a little history lesson about the colours I love learning about all of the different pigments 💖
*Colors.
I love the fact that rae is making everyone's quarantine better
Edit : thanks a lot for the likes!!!!!!! Hope you have a great day 😄😄 and stay safe 😷😷
Your still in quarantine?
True fact though
Overused comment
So true tho
@@cosmicbrickfilms1593 still true tho
U need to get a good camera and set it to a fixed whitebalance for somewhat realistic color rendition. Get a good light too to show off precise color information. Tungsten light is actually perfect for that. Set the WB somewhere between 2700 and 3200 Kelvin. Block out all sunlight and turn off any led or fluorescent light. Best camera on a budget would probably be the panasonic s5.
Well, I learned a lot from my ancestors because they used to use a lot of natural dye for the sundried cloth made out of natural cotton.
Hundreds of years ago, my ancestor been collecting purple dye out of the seashells called murex. (I know how it looked like but I don't know how they collected the color out of it, well i guess drying and crushing the shell-not sure lol). Another natural purple-bluish dye they collected are those from logwood, and also red dye from the insect cochineal (not sure about the spelling). Because of these knowledge, I won the local girlscout painting -using organic colors from the forest (yeaaaars ago..just reminiscing..)
I missed my grandma, she just passed due to corona last week. 🥺😊🤍 But, I'm trying my best to smile because I knew she wanted me to be okay and she wanted me to be strong.
Take care of yourselves folks. Covid is real.
May your grandmother live on in the memories you have of her, and may the things she taught you come to your mind whenever you are near children, so that the wisdom of old can be passed down and endure many generations.
If I remember correctly, the seashell you speak of was crushed to a powder then boiled in an alkaline solution, probably seawater with ash or clay dust or something similarly on hand. It was said to take a number of days to develop into the brilliant color the emperors, kings and royal families so desired as a symbol of their social status. I read that before the secrets of maKing silk were smuggled out of China, the finest silk fabrics in the trade nations were brought toTurkey by the ancient silk road, because even rarer than the violet dye alone was how it took to fine silk. The purple sheen was so told to shine like nothing else available for that time, having an almost magical or ethereal quality. I imagine there is nothing quite like it in our modern world, simply because the old techniques were so much more a matter of craft mastery. So complex, sparing no known phenomena of our natural world, and taking no shortcut or omission that was not solely ordered by the very heavens above. I mean that only by circumstance of the fluctuations that come with the yearly seasons turning, meaning the longer cycles of heat and cold, rain and sun, swarms or blights, etc. These factors are the same that determine whether the wine will age sweet or dry, refined through the determination and dedication of the human spirit over eons and generations, by the sheer will of each artisan to make it work with what is available. This discipline is seeming to be almost lost on our modern world, and even though the machines can produce something likened to almost anything imagineable, no machine will ever rival the hand crafted artifacts of our own kind. Cheers!
@@sourceawry4035 thank you! :)
I am happy that some of us are still fascinated by the traditional arts and ancient methods. Actually i searched about fabrics because my grandma loved visiting vintage shops. She solely been looking for oversized dresses and curtains. She recycle those fabric into a new dress or something else.. she said, the rarer the better the older the more possible it is handmade.
I found one video that i find fascinating it's the ancient fabric that cannot reproduce now because we don't have the same cotton plants like we used to. They call it the muslim fabric. Luckily, they are trying to recreate that one.
th-cam.com/video/xojkYY_gcIo/w-d-xo.html
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Omg! Look into the history of Royal Purple and Carmine pigments! The “crushing purple out of shells” sounds like royal purple, and “getting red from small insects” sounds like Carmine (Carmine is still used a lot in food in makeup dyes to this day!) I’d bet there’s a connection to these historical pigments!
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I found it completely mind blowing when I learned that most ancient languages don't contain a word for the color blue. Like, what?! Basically, if they didn't have a method of creating a blue pigment, they didn't have a word for the color🤯
Kyaneos is the word blue in ancient Greek
@@kristines9855 So no language had a word for the color blue until “modern” times and to this day many languages still use a modification of the word they used to describe green because, to ancient humans, blue was just another shade of green. For example, the sky was blue and the Greeks described the ocean as wine colored. That being said, kyaneos was used to describe dark green and other colors in Ancient Greek, it wasn’t specifically used for the color blue.
Can we just take a moment to look at how amazing her makeup looks like lol
Everyone else: talking about the paint
Me: momentarily in pain when she shows using that awful cheap synthetic kids brush when talking about watercolors lasting
as a watercolor artist this hurt me so much...
@@nuped7021 the amount of pain she was using hurt
True
@@kykyt-t6170 can you explain what about the amount she was using? I’m genuinely curious. I have no artistic ability at all
@@booksquirm92 With colors with a lot of pigment you don’t usually need a lot of paint to get a bright color. Considering how expensive it is, it’s also wasting the paint.
This is so interesting! I find that compared to the watercolors you bought, the YinMn blue looks a lot less complex, with one single hue, where the others will sort of float between cooler blues and teals in lower opacity. But I'm seeing it through a camera, and I wonder if that has something to do with the paint itself.
*when u came actually interested not realizing it was just posted*
Ikr-
Rae at 9:02: “goodbye Irene”
Me: ...uh, what? No, I’m staying for the whole video
Another factor about the artificial blue, esp ultramarine. It has to be made at high temperatures and extremely high pressure.
Like, can explode levels of pressure.
Just to clarify, the recipe for Egyptian blue wasn't intentionally destroyed by religious zealots. It fell out of use centuries before because Egypt had been absorbed by the Roman Empire which preferred reds, yellows, and oranges. And when Rome fell to the Persians it was finally completely lost.
Egyptian Blue is Calcium Copper Silicate. You can very easily make it in a lab. Nothing was lost to time lol
Yeah that’s a huge misconception about era, and if anyone did it, it would NOT be from the Islamic empire who preserved a lot of ancient texts.
Me: dying from school/pandemic stress and possible depression
TH-cam: A new pigment of blue was invented
"If you play MineCraft, you probably know of Lapis Lazuli"
Me: *laughs in Steven Universe*
Ling Ling?
Lmfao
@@Ava-cw3jf omg twosettttttttt
Who can read mincraft enchanting table
@@Ava-cw3jf i changed my username sorryy
Me, whose favorite color is blue, saying "its beautiful," "perfect," and "gorgeous," to every shade of blue Rae tested...
When you talk about the history of art it would be really great if you could include your sources🙏🏻☺️
When you’re early but can’t think of a funny joke about blue so you lurk in the shadows of the comments
Can relate
true lol
Hope you don't feel too blue about it.
I love how my brother's crayola 24 pack still has dandelion😂
Oh wow
Unrelated but I just got off zoom with the Art teacher and she said I can skip to AP Art with no prerequisites :D
Its giving me Saturday morning Bob Ross Blue Vibes. Need that as a fountain pen ink color!
I love this video. It contains my favorite things: history, watercolors and a little science
The Indian representation I'm happy and proud of😭✊🏾
Hi-ndi
This is absolutely incredible!! It’s amazing that they created an entirely new pigment, especially be accident! This is gonna be in history books two hundred years from now
It must feel so badass to discover something like a new pigment, especially these days.
This lady has high-key markiplier energy idk how idk why maybe it's the confidence maybe it's the charisma but i love it.
Mom: ugh, you better not be watching TH-cam again!You have an art history lesson to do.
Me: Wdym? This is my art history lesson.
Mom: ..
Edit: I don’t even remember making this comment- but anyways, tysm for the likes :)
The way she gives the history of the paint makes me happy
I legit screamed when you revealed your In The Zone Britney drawing, officially one of my favorite youtube videos ever ∞/10
I feel a bit sad for Phthalho blue (PB15) now getting a mention in the history segment. Indigo too xD Can we give these wonderful colours some love too? Also, I would love it if you tried blendding the crayons so we can see some thinned down colours than just the rough textured look o.o
I really wanna go to Oregon university. Not only because that’s my childhood birth state but also because I love science. I really really wanna go there when I’m older.
I live rlly close there actually. What city did u live in when u lived in Oregon?
Pog champ.
Rae: new things every week
Me: new thing every year....🥲
Even butterflies and birds with vibrant blues don’t usually have an actual blue pigment. Instead they have nano structures that absorb certain wavelengths of light and achieve a blue look that way 🤩
I live in pakistan so afghanistan is close to us I frequently use the that blue color from the cave
The real one not the synthetic one
And I do have to use the equipment
Rae posts
Everyone: dashi run run run
Only army’s will get this ;)
nah not really. i get it too lolz
OMFG armyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
YESSS ARMY
LMAO nice
Yeah dashi run run but badly I'm really late today ;_;
When will you come back on amino? We miss you
Amino is kinda ded ngl
@@nicachepe No it isn't. The app is hella active you just need to find the right community
@@nicachepe yeah, that and alot of communities are hella gatekeeper filled and obnoxious
💣💥
yooo amino's my childhood that i outgrew, awesome app, questionable people, never knew rae had one lol
@@fishflakes_ lmao me too, I staayed on that Vocaloid and Arts and OC aminos
Just a heads up, I’m not sure if this is a new advancement from three years ago when Rae made this video but scientists found how to make Egyptian blue!
“Egyptian blue, also known as calcium copper silicate (CaCuSi4O10 or CaOCuO(SiO2)4 (calcium copper tetrasilicate)) or cuprorivaite,[1] is a pigment that was used in ancient Egypt for thousands of years. It is considered to be the first synthetic pigment.[2] It was known to the Romans by the name caeruleum. After the Roman era, Egyptian blue fell from use and, thereafter, the manner of its creation was forgotten. In modern times, scientists have been able to analyze its chemistry and reconstruct how to make it.”
EXACTLY WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST YOU POST THIS DKDKELDLDLDL ILY RAE
Schmincke has made this pigment into oil paint, ftr. They're selling it as a limited edition color under their Mussini Oil line and retails (on Jacksons) for $34.25. I'm not sure which pigment is in the formula, but if it's the actual article, it seems buying a 15ml tube of the oil paint version is more economical than the $45 watercolor pan, IMO.
OK RAE WE ARE READY FOR THE REDDEST RED PURPLEST PURPLE AND GREENEST GREEN!
Hehe no pressure
Rae: I'm probably gonna barely make a dent
*later*
Rae: *proceeds to use the whole thing*