The Painter's Colors
Johannes Vermeer
Girl with a Pearl Earring
about 1665
Oil on canvas, 44.5 × 39 cm. Mauritshuis, The Hague
The turban is natural ultramarine of high quality, mixed with lead white where the light falls.
- In the shadow, the blue is cut with about half chalk and laid over a black underlayer.
Concepts
Image: Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (PD-Art)